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GDT Pre-season: 9/29; Devils @ Rangers; 7PM


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I'm a mick myself.  It's mick-loud. Traditionally anyway, all depends how his family says it like every other name. 

4 hours ago, '7' said:

I've heard some Devils fans say Mick-Lee-Odd. Honestly I have no idea how his name should be pronounced.

That's people who have only read it online and have no clue. 

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Very sloppy throughout, but was able to build on the impressions I've gotten from a few guys so far. The guys I've wanted to see progress and keep their consistency have been progressing:

  • Miles Wood - This kid might honestly make the opening night roster and it wouldn't be undeserved. I need to get a few better looks but he reminds me of a taller, maybe faster, but less skilled Zach Parise. I mean, his goal last night was a microcosm of his game: he forechecks hard toward the corner, throws the body and loosens the puck; he doesn't stop skating and a few seconds later, sloppy play from both sides puts the puck on his stuck for the big slapper and a goal. He's just hard to contain, hard to keep track of. More realistically than my Parise comparison maybe, I think he may be our next Adam Henrique, which is the kind of player you can never have enough of. He's going to make it very hard on Shero/Hynes to send him back to Albany.
  • Nick Lappin - Somewhat more quiet game out of him last night, compared to the goals he's been putting up in the games and scrimmages, I but I really like what I see out of him, essentially a player we snatched up out of no where. Made some great plays in tight spaces (credit to the Rangers defense, they didn't give us much space last night, and played a lot of their starters, while our lines were more of a hodge-podge with a few starters here and there). I think he'll do well in Albany and make the case to be called up later in the season. He is 24, and we do sorely need RW depth.
  • Yohann Auvitu - I can see what the fuss was about from Finnish hockey fans. He absolutely looks like he fits in here in the NHL (in only a few preseason games), so he must've really been rocking the Finnish League. He might be the type of offensive defenseman we were missing last season; not elite or top-pairing by any means, but great offensive instinct. Let's cross our fingers and hope he's a 20-30 point Marek Zidlicky replacement a year and a half after the fact, we could sorely use that. I'm going to pay more attention to his defensive game moving forward before I rush to call him NHL-ready (his offensive instincts certainly look NHL-ready, which isn't saying much considering what our team has lacked in that department since Zid was traded).
  • Pavel Zacha - Quieter game than I think I wanted to see out of him, but I think he makes the team. He does so many good things and plays very mature. He could've easily had a goal OR two, got robbed on two great opportunities if I recall. I'm not the type that usually thinks we should bring up our kids early, but he plays with a certain maturity, he does not play like he's 19 years old. I think he's ready to be "shown the way".
  • Brian Gibbons - Release him now. He does not need to be wasting someone's preseason roster spot moving forward.
  • Scott Wedgewood & Keith Kinkaid - They definitely won't get the credit they deserve but I think they've both had a perfectly fine preseason so far. Wedgewood made some big saves last night. One of the goals was a softie, but he made some pretty underrated saves throughout the game that went under the radar. Got bumped a hell of a lot of times last night, which I wasn't expecting.
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