Oct 10, 2025
3 min read
Brett Pesce plays his 700. Game in Carolina's devil season, but that's not an important turning point for him: it's a moment.
Ask the player for a 700 game milestone can feel a bit strange.It's just another circle number, scroll to the next hundred.
But when it comes to Brett Pesce, this 700th game, this milestone, has an extra layer.He returns to the only other arena he's ever called home as a player: Carolin.Hockey stories even have a way of being written, and this one is no different.Peese was held by the ice in the Devils' final game of the 2024-25 regular season, which left him after having played 699-Søar this way this way this way this way this way this way on the road this way in the 2024-25 regular season, which left him after having played 699-Søar this way this way this way this way this way this way this way this way this way this way this way this season, which left him after having played 699-Søar this way this way this way this way this way this way this way to play 699-Søar this way.season and unconsciously setting the stage for this moment.
Make no mistake: Carolina, where he spent nine seasons, will always be part of his story, but New Jersey is where he’s firmly rooted now. The proof was right there at the start of this interview. Pesce is sandwiched between Luke Hughes and Brenden Dillon in the locker room, and in this moment Luke chimes in as the what would have been a one-on-one interview starts.
"If this is a bad question I will let you know," Hughes broke.
I started creating a situation to tell about this important Pesce night.I have a problem that has completed the complete set of my question.
"Milestones? He doesn't care about milestones!"Hughes laughed.At least he doesn't speak unusual.
Later, Dillon learns that it is Pesce's 700th game.He puts his best emphasis in New York: "Weschester Kid", he begins."If he had said that Westchester Kid would have reached 700 games in his career, wow ..."
The Pese is in the program before, says the old program, you know it. "Yes you know.
As soon as I lost any kind of interview control, all three returning back.I do not know for sure what happens at this time.
But he did not.He played in the 627 first games of his 700 fast years with Carolina, a place where he studied valuable lessons that make him influence here, in New Jersey much deeper than on the ice alone.He formed him as a player, leader and last team friend.
I asked him about his growth during his years in Carolina.
A bad question.Hughes adds his two centers before the see begins."It's not married, now she is married.He was a little boy. "
