As you may or may not be aware, I'm Tyler Bleszinski and I happened to found SportsBlogs Nation.  I also happened to be one of the biggest Devils fans you will ever find.  I've followed this team religiously since about 1986.  Even though I grew up in Boston, I loved watching the Devils and I think it was mostly because I dug on their uniforms.  Hey, kids are kids, right?  And red and green happened to be my two favorite colors.  Yes they were Christmas colors, but who doesn't love Christmas? 

Yes, back in the day it was going to the old Boston Garden when the Devils came to town.  I was at a game when Reed Larson scored on Alain Chevrier from the red line.  I loved Patrick Sundstrom for his all-around play (being an earlier, perhaps more skilled version of John Madden).  But I really fell for the Devils when Sean Burke came into the fold as I often tended goal myself as a youngster.  1988 was one of the greatest years of my life with everything from the "Cirella takes a shot, save by Pang, rebound, they score.  They did it, they did it, the Devils make the playoffs for the first time in their history!"  It was an addiction for me.

Well that addicition never waned over the years and then I started SB Nation.  I ran the Oakland A's blog Athletics Nation, which was the first blog in the network.  I didn't have the time to dedicate to another blog, but I've been dying for a New Jersey Devils blog since day one of starting this company.  I'm really happy that John has come on board and will be running this site.  He runs it in a very similar fashion as to what I do with AN. 

So I want to express a warm welcome to John here at SB Nation.  I'm sure I'll be spending plenty of time here.  I'll be attached to it like Pat Verbeek's surgically repaired thumb.