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Devils’ goalie Schneider ‘not thinking’ about contract extension

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James OBrien

With Martin Brodeur now in the final years of his distinguished National Hockey League career, Cory Schneider is the goalie of the future with the New Jersey Devils.

However, a contract extension with the Devils seems the furthest thing from his mind at this point in the season. His current contract - a three-year, $12 million deal he signed when he was still with the Vancouver Canucks - expires at the end of the 2014-15 season.

“I don’t know,” Schneider recently told NJ.com. “That’s something that I really haven’t put a lot of thought into. I still have a lot to hopefully prove this season.

“We’re still trying to make the playoffs. That’s not even an option for another five or six months, so I’m not thinking about that at all right now.”

The Devils acquired the 27-year-old Schneider from the Canucks in exchange for the ninth overall pick in the 2013 NHL Draft last June.

His record doesn’t correlate to his overall play this season. He has a 10-10-9 record, but an impressive .925 save percentage (seventh in the NHL), 1.91 goals-against average (second in the NHL), and three shutouts.

In his last outing, Schneider made 23 saves on 25 shots, but the Devils still lost 2-1 to the Colorado Avalanche in overtime.

New Jersey had a one-goal lead but allowed a late goal to send the game into overtime, before Ryan O’Reilly won it for Colorado. That prompted a frustrated Schneider to discuss his team’s recent collapses in games.

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