New Jersey Devils fall to Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 , 11.27.13

Cam Janssen said he will fight for an NHL job in training camp. (Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger)

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NEWARK — Each training camp in recent years Cam Janssen has been asked about attempts to eliminate fighting in the NHL. Does he feel like someone whose trade is no longer needed?



"Did they take hitting out of the game? Have they taken energy out of the game?" Janssen asked. "It's not fighting that is being taken out of the game. It's the square off, buckets (helmets) off, sideshow fights that are getting taken out of the game.



"Now fights are spontaneous. Now you do something to provoke a fight, like I go down on a forecheck and lay somebody out. He has to come fight me. That fighting is still in the game, and it will be."



Janssen will still be in the game as well, but it will most likely be in the AHL with Albany.



"I feel the same way every single training camp. It never comes easy and it's never handed to me," Janssen said. "Nothing has ever been handed to be in my whole life. I've had the same mindset here that I've had for the last 12 years. I'm going to do everything in mind to make this team. Everything in my power. Whatever happens happens."



Is winning a spot on the Devils' roster do-able?



"Yeah. Was it do-able getting called up last year? Was it do-able in past years? Of course it is," said Janssen, who played 24 games for the Devils last season and had his first 3-goal season in the NHL.



"I bring a different element. I know that and I'm going to take advantage of it. I know what they want."



Janssen said if he does wind up in Albany he would not request a trade.



"No, I wouldn't," he said. "Look at what happened last year. Would I be happy? Of course not. Who would be? Would I show anger? No. On the ice, yeah. But I can't even think ahead to that point yet."



Right now he is committed to make the Devils' coaching staff and GM take notice.



"They drafted me and they scouted me. Lou (Lamoriello) and I have gone back pretty far now. I know everybody from top to bottom in this organization," Janssen said. "That doesn't make it any more comfortable, because it's not, but it does help for me to commit myself 100 percent here."

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Winger Ryan Carter is at Prudential Center for his physical, but remains unsigned.

Carter said he will be on the ice Friday, even if he remains unsigned.

"I'll be flying," he said.