PAUSECAST: Former Devil Scott Gomez Joins the Pausecast

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For the tenth episode of the Devils Official Pausecast, our guest is Scott Gomez. Gomez was drafted in the first round of the 1998 NHL Draft by the Devils and then made his debut for New Jersey in the 1999-2000 season. He played for the club until the end of the 2006-07 season, winning two Stanley Cups with the team, 2000 and 2003.

Gomez went back to his home state of Alaska in March and has remained in quarantine there ever since. Gomez and his business partner are working on a special project involving his home state and his profession.

"We were making Alaskan documentary films for athletes that came out of our state," explained Gomez. "We started just making funny videos trying to make people laugh, and we went with that. They started an instagram page and all of that."

"I used to, if I wasn't talking in third person, I was letting them know about the great state [of Alaska] and just making lies about just how I grew up and now they're caught on video."

For fans interested in the video series, they can watch on Instagram following Gomez's account: scottycgomez.

When Gomez was bringing the Cup home to Alaska for the first time, Randy McKay gave advice to Gomez on how to best use your time with the Cup.

"Actually the best advice I ever got, Randy McKay grabbed me and Jay Pandolfo and he said, you know we were new to this, we didn't know what to expect, how to do this, what do you do with the Stanley Cup when you bring it home. He said make sure it's available for the town, take it to certain charity places you want. He also said, when you have your party at the end of the night, which of course you will, you place the Cup over there, and you make sure you're over there because at that point, you're not sick of it, but you're just like, everyone wants a picture and you want to enjoy it too."

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"We cut the street off where I grew up so all the neighborhood could enjoy it for like an hour, and then we took it to the elderly home, hospitals, a couple bars, then we had it out on the park strip for like 5 or 6 hours," said Gomez. "I wanted to make sure that it wasn't just me and my close friends, that it was for the whole state and for the whole town."

Gomez also talked about watching Petr Sykora taking his lap with the Cup at the 20 year reunion of the 2000 Cup win earlier in February. Sykora was injured in Game Six of the Stanley Cup Final and wasn't on the ice during the Devils celebration. As a result, he never had his chance to skate with the Cup to celebrate the 2000 Cup win. Gomez described the build up to the moment and what it meant for Sykora's teammates to watch him skate.

"I knew when we were in the room, it was kind of a secret at the 20 year. No one wanted to let Sykora know," said Gomez. "That was awesome, that was incredible, we were all so happy for him. And Sykora had no clue."

"That was something special for all of us, and for him to get a lap with the Stanley Cup since he missed out was great for all of us."