Let’s face it. New Jersey Devil fans are some of the most spoiled in all of sports. And you my friend are completely out of line here. All I did was give my vantage point on what a fraud your goalie is when it comes to the Rangers and point out that twice the Devils tried to injure Scott Gomez even resorting to sending out an NHL scrub to do the dirty work at the end of the first period.

If you want to complain about the penalties, how about going back and watching the replay to see all the blatant interference the Devs got away with (Hint: This wasn’t the first instance either). If some of their players were any closer, you’d swear they’d try to jump their bones.

When the Devils can send out eight guys during one of the worst changes late and no whistle, it was fitting that they got burned by the combination of Nigel Dawes and Henrik Lundqvist. Wonder how Marty slept last night. It must’ve been pretty “weird.”

How’s this for something?

The other night, Lepore called into our New York Hockey Report joining myself and co-host Joe McDonald for a fun filled evening. The first thing you said was this:

“I just realized that my team sucks.”

Oh man. How do we count the words to define what a load of garbage that is?!?!?!?!?!

We might bitch about our teams. I’ve been guilty of it plenty. When things don’t fall our way in the metro area, we tend to let our emotions get the better of us. That said, the Devils aren’t the Rangers. You never had to sit through seven years of being an NHL laughingstock. I can count many a night where I sat in 411 with my head buried because that’s how pathetic those teams were.

When you have a Devil fan coming up to you after their team eliminated yours from playoff contention saying, “I feel sorry for you,” you know how freaking bad it’s gotten.

How old is Steve anyway? He’s a freshman at Caldwell. So, you’re either 18 or going to turn 19 some time this year. What that means is you grew up as a kid watching nothing but a successful hockey franchise which won three Stanley Cups, reached four Finals and won countless Atlantic Division titles while finishing at or near the top of the East.

If you’re around that same age and root for another very successful franchise which resides in the Bronx, then you know what I’m getting at here.

Editor’s Note:  I recall going to more than half empty Stadiums in the early 1990’s watching the likes of Mel Hall, Jesse Barfield, Greg Cadaret, Rich Monteleone, Scott Sanderson and Kevin Maas, whose rookies I still have saved believe it or not.

Winning is great but it also spoils fans rotten to the core. Suddenly, winning a division isn’t enough or taking two playoff rounds before being eliminated is just not enough.

It’s either deliver another championship or the season becomes a failure. Many would argue that that philosophy is great because your team is expected to not only compete but win. The problem as many younger generation Yankee fans are finding out is it’s just not realistic to think you’re going to win it all every year.

If that actually happened, sports would become dull. Who the heck wants to see the same teams playing for and winning championships all the time? What’s the fun in that? There’s little fan appeal except for the spoiled few, who start to become obnoxious and spew garbage ticking off many.

Just once, I’d like to see the Devils miss the postseason so Steve can really know what it feels like to root for a team that sucks. Maybe then you and a few others who seem to assume your team will always win will finally comprehend what it means to not see the players you cheer for playing meaningful games in April.

Sometimes, a cold reality makes you appreciate it a whole lot more. Devil fans need to see their team miss. Then we’ll see how many are true Kool Aid drinkers and which ones jump overboard like the frauds they are.