May 22, 2025 NJD Thoughts: Kovacevic Injury, CAR Diving, Siegs' Helmet, 1995-96, Gardiner

Some relevant & random NJD thoughts on a gloomy May day

I’ve had some minor items sitting in my e-mail inbox/drafts that I thought would be “interesting” to share, but not entertaining enough to put into podcast form. Sometimes I get the appetite to write but then it becomes too paralyzing to spend the necessary time to flesh it out and carefully craft it to the my ridiculously high standards. Like I had a Substack piece sitting in drafts from Summer 2023 but it just gave me too much anxiety to finish it..maybe I’ll slowly start to empty it. So…instead of emptying everything into one post and overwhelming myself, going to try and fire off some thoughts into quick bursts that’ll allow me to make a dent.

All that said! Some of this stuff may not be interesting at all, lol. It may just be more of a space for me to clean out my inbox…or for you to see what goes on in my brain…scary place! Maybe you’ll learn something…or not! This will kind of be like the CDO of New Jersey Devils thoughts.

Yes, The Big Short is one of the 33 movies I’ve seen. Anyways, let’s try.

1) Jonathan Kovacevic said he got injured during the first shift of Game 3 against CAR. I wanted to see if it was noticeable and, well…