The Lowell Devils get me every year. Last season they promised they’d be more up tempo, and tough…not your father’s Lowell Devils I believe was the quote. They were up tempo and decent. On Opening Night. This season, it is the press release I saw today where the Devils have signed AHL tough guy Louis Robitaille to a contract.

Louis Robitaille should be no stranger to Lowell hockey fans going back to the Lockmonster days. He was part of the three headed monster that was “Mad” Mel Angelstad, Louis Robitaille, and Darcy Verot of the Portland Pirates going back to Robitaille’s rookie year in 2003-04. Talk about a team of shit disturbers. I remember them running roughshod all over the Monsters back then. Who was going to stop them? Tomas Malec? The only guy that was tough on that 03-04 Lockmonster team was Joey Tetarenko. Verot, Robitaille, and Anglestad had the ice to do whatever they wanted back then, because no one would, or could stop them.

It was Robitaille that I enjoyed the most though. He of the Cheshire cat smile, and constantly running mouth. To say he enjoys his job as enforcer/shit disturber is to say we all like fights. It’s friggin obvious. He’s a heck of a nice guy off the ice to shoot the breeze with as well. I hope the Devils didn’t “get” me again, and I hope Robitaille is free to run around in Lowell. I am betting after his season split between the LNAH, and Italy last season, he’ll be raring to go nuts. Somehow, I think I’ve been had again.