One day earlier than usual, it's the latest episode of Talking Red, a New Jersey Devils podcast. David Sarch returns and joins Ryan Lucas and myself to discuss the Devils' two wins, their third period collapses in both games, the defense, the team's schedule, and more. Don't worry, we didn't take the final third of the show off. Here's the direct link to this week's episode at the TR site; it is 45:08 long and 41.31 MB large. Here's David's description of the show.

In this week's episode, David is back and is joined by John and Ryan. They break down the loss to the Rangers and the win/third period collapse to the Capitals. They also begin to take a bigger picture look at where the Devils sit in the standings, are they definitely a playoff team and look at what the defense will look like when everyone is healthy.

As usual, you can email your comments and questions to talkingred at gmail dot com, tweet them to @TalkingRed, or just leave them here in the comments of this post. After the jump is a stream of this week's episode.

Thank you for listening and have a happy holidays from all of us at TR and ILWT.