The main New Jersey Devils roster is overseas. The remainder from camp are here to play out the last three games. Get some reps in before returning to Utica or other teams. Maybe get management to realize someone deserves a call up. Either way: play well and don’t get hurt.

The Time: 7:00 PM ET

The Broadcast: TV: MSG, MSGSN, NHL Network; Audio: Devils Hockey Radio

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The Song of the Evening: In keeping with the education theme, its fitting to hear out a group called the Leaders of the New School. Granted, the new school was new in 1991 and is now considerably old. Still, “Case of the P.T.A.” from their first album A Future Without a Past… is a fun song and applies for this theme. Also, enjoy what a young Busta Rhymes looked and sounded like then.

The Rules: The rules remain as they are as the Devils are playing out the preseason schedule with the leftovers in camp. Please keep your language clean (this means no swearing, don’t mask it, it’s not enough, no I don’t care what Tom Fitzgerald said), respect your fellow Devils fan with no personal attacks (play nice or you will not play here), no illegal streams (this means no asking, no hints, no nothing about it), and please keep your comments relevant to this game. Go Devils!

New data for 2024 has revealed the most popular Halloween candy in New Jersey, and you probably won’t be able to guess it.

If someone asked you to name the top Halloween candy in the Garden State, you’d probably answer with one of the most famous candies in the world like M&M’s or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but you wouldn’t even be close to naming the Garden State’s top Halloween candy for 2024.

New Jersey’s Favorite Halloween Candy For 2024

The data, released by Instacart reveals that your guesses were right on the mark nationwide, with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups taking the #1 spot nationally, and Peanut M&M’s right behind at #2.

But when it comes to New Jersey, our candy choice hits a bit of a sour note.
In the Garden State, the top Halloween candy is Sour Patch Kids. Could this be a reflection of our overall demeanor in New Jersey?

Although The Garden State is not the only state to choose Sour Patch Kids as the top Halloween candy, one of the country’s most well-known candies, and my favorite, Skittles, was only selected by one state, Texas, meaning I may have to move.
And if you’re a  Milky Way or Starburst fan, they are the favorite of only one state each.

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Let’s give the Garden State a little credit. We have even found a way to have a unique favorite Halloween candy.

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Reanimated corpses are always a part of Halloween when a certain New Jersey-based seasonal retail chain comes a-haunting.

Because as we all know, Spirit Halloween sets up shop every year in the husks of big-box stores and other dearly departed businesses.

And, as a bit that aired in the season 50 premiere of “Saturday Night Live” notes, given the state of brick-and-mortar shopping, there are plenty of empty stores to inhabit across the country.

“When others leave, we show up,” Spirit Halloween community liaison Lauren Ashman, played by Heidi Gardner, says in the “SNL” bit (see video below). “We don’t see a dead-end town.”

“We don’t see an abandoned Kmart,” says another employee played by Michael Longfellow in the “SNL” sketch.

“We see a Spirit,” says Chloe Fineman, another Spirit staffer. “A Spirit Halloween.”

“Thanks to us, what used to be a condemned Auto Zone where a murder happened is once again a thriving business … where a murder happened,” Longfellow says.

Spirit Halloween has its flagship location in Egg Harbor Township, home to its corporate headquarters.

The chain, owned by Spencer Gifts, aka Spencer’s, since 1999, opened its first store in Castro Valley, California in 1983.

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Fineman goes on to expound upon the Halloween retailer’s offerings: “Wigs that give you a rash,” “single-use fog machines” and “costumes of famous characters tweaked just enough to avoid a lawsuit.” (Provided examples are “fat yellow worker” for the Minions, “candy slave” for Oompa Loompas and “blonde singing woman” for Taylor Swift.)

Ashman explains that Spirit Halloween also provides a crucial service by “creating six-week jobs for some of America’s hardest-hit perverts.”

Mikey Day plays a Spirit cashier who has to check the age of the person he’s ringing up (who wants to buy a “sexy nurse” costume).

Finding she’s under 18, he tells her he’s not legally allowed to help her.

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Amy Kuperinsky may be reached at akuperinsky@njadvancemedia.com and followed at @AmyKup.