Rolston was put on waivers and cleared them so he's still on the roster, he's been playing.
Brodeur/Kovy's slump and Parise's injury is what went wrong for the Devils this year. We have some extremely solid forwards. Arnott, Kovalchuk, Elias, Zajac, Parise, Zubrus. That's more than enough scoring. Brodeur gets no help on defense because our defense sucks. The truth of the matter is with goal-scoring power like Kovalchuk and Parise, the Devils are going to have to start to make an adjustment from their usual defense-first system, but right now they aren't scoring OR playing defense. Not a good combo.