Jake Allen

New Jersey is taking a hard look at what it got from Jake Allen and Evgenii Dadonov in its 2025-26 report cards. That kind of review is never just about counting saves or points - it is about whether the player matched the job the club needed him to do. The Devils have to decide which pieces were useful and which ones were merely convenient. These evaluations can look dry on the surface, but they usually tell you a lot about how a team plans to spend its next dollar.

Jake Allen doesn't hold back when talking about that brutal goal that slipped past Karel Dobes, the kind of softie that haunts young goalies in the NHL grind. Meanwhile, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen steps up big for the Sabres at a time when Buffalo desperately needs stability between the pipes to stay in the playoff hunt.