The New Jersey Devils first opened their box office to offer tickets to the garden state when they first debuted as the Kansas City Scouts in the NH expansion of 1974, then they bought their own tickets and moved to Denver Colorado as the Colorado Rockies, and ultimately hopped a train back to New Jersey and set-up shop as the Devils. Since establishment, they have defined a dynamic legacy that included the win of two Stanley Cup championships.
There seemed to be no clear path to glory, as the Devils, in their previous incarnations, seemed completely unable to rise above mediocre at best. After experiencing more than their fair share of defeat that also included several cross-country moves and changes of key personnel within the organization, Lou Lamoriello was named as the new president. Lamoriello had been the catalyst and overall architect of the Providence's College hockey success for the better part of 15 years and had earned the respect of his peers in both hockey and as a businessman.
In 1993, former Stanley Cup Champions Jacques Lemaire and Larry Robinson were hired as coach and assistant coach respectively, and together they ushered in a new era for the New Jersey Devils.
The New Jersey Devils stormed the NHL; crushing team after team with the highest scoring seasons that the team had seen to date. As a result of their undying ferocity, and while in front of many thousand of fans who had made a smart investment when they bought a nicket to see the finest the NHL had to offer, they then faced the Detroit Red Wings in the 1994-95 finals, the Devils won their first Stanley Cup. With its new found success, the New Jersey Devils Organization sold out tickets for the record setting attendance and became ground zero for the birth of NHL excellence.
From 1996 on through 1999, the Devils finished either first or second in the Atlantic Division. Fan favorites such as Eric Lindros was back in the lineup and, yet again, lead the Devils around the ice where they, in turn, ran rings around the Dallas Stars who did not have a second of a chance. For the price of an affordable ticket purchased online, fans were rewarded with a New Jersey Devils and a new Stanley Cup. The promise for more can be witnessed live when a moment is set aside to get online and order tickets to see, not if but when, the Devils drink from the cup in a new year.
Lamoriello had a multi-faceted plan to redefine the club and upgrade their tickets from coach to first class. First he replaced the coach with Jim Schoenfeld and then made haste to draft Sean Burke and buy him his own ticket east after the 1988 Calgary Olympics. In his first game as a Devil, helped his team to victory with a 7-6 win over the Boston Bruins.
From that point on, the Devil's began to rise up from the hole that was their record. In one of the last games of the 1987-88 seasons in Chicago, the Devils defeated the Chicago Black Hawks and put themselves into their first post season. John MacLean beat Chicago goalie Darren Pang and the Devils bought their ticket to the post season for the first time after an overtime victory. The Devils blazed a trail past the competition. Team by team they sent their opponents tickets back to oblivion. Eventually, they lost their steam and the series but had proven that they were most definitely a contender to be reckoned with. Devils fans bought up season tickets in droves and a new fan base was established with each ticket sold.