Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A kakar wasa ta gaba, aljanu sun sake sauka a kasa da.500 kuma sun rasa wasan kwaikwayo. Lamoriello ya yi canje-canje da yawa na 'yan wasa, musamman sanya hannu kan taurari biyu na Soviet - Viacheslav Fetisov da Sergei Starikov. The Devils sun zabi Fetisov shekaru da suka gabata a cikin shirin shigarwa na 1983
, amma gwamnatin Soviet ba ta ba da damar Fetisov ba, wanda ya kasance jami'in Soja ne kuma memba ne na kungiyar 'yan wasa ta kasa, ya bar kasar. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, aljanu sun sanya hannu kan abokin haɗin Fetisov, Alexei Kasatonov.