Colorado Rockies 1976

FWIW I read somewhere that Brind'Amour and the Canes want to work out an extension...but guess that could change if the Rangers somehow make short work of them.

I’m rather surprised that Berube has yet to be hired by ANYONE TBH. How did LINDY get hired before him?!

Exactly this. Not to mention that every candidate interviewed represents the Devils not bringing Green back next year. Like you, McClellan isn’t my first choice, but unlike Green, he’s definitely not my LAST choice.

He played for them in 1987-88...total of five games (his NHL career). He can say that he not only played in the NHL, but scored a goal and notched an assist. That's pretty cool...lots of NHL hopefuls who can't say the same.

He looks like he gets pissed off a lot. Right now that alone might be good enough for me.

My biggest beef is that it’s one thing to give a developing Holtz some tough love here and there…it’s quite another to basically hold NO ONE ELSE to any kind of similar standard. Smith was given free reign to suck and do Smith things as much as he wanted, and not like others didn’t receive similar treatment. It was mind-boggingly fvcking INFURIATING.

Take ‘em however you can get ‘em. Big day for Lindor, which means he’ll do little the next 4-5 games.

There’s a part of me that wanted to see them get on SOME kind of run to truly challenge for a playoff berth, but I’m glad I didn’t have to see them get curbstomped by either Carolina or the Rangers. Because I hate both of those teams and sadly that’s EXACTLY what would have happened. At absolute best, maybe Allen stands on his head yet again and the Devils would’ve stolen a game that they would’ve had no real business winning. But it would’ve been ugly as fvck.

According to Piazza’s book, that whole disguise bit was Bobby being more silly than anything else, to get a bit of a laugh out of his team. But Piazza made it clear that Bobby is the kind of guy that you’re pretty much going to have a love-hate relationship with, at best…and I think that was true of most of the Mets at the time.

Given the hope and expectation, yeah, I'd say Dawson is a fair choice, but I'd say VV would also be a fair nominee. We knew a guy like Smith sucked...unfortunately Lindy and Travis, not so much.

The reason those bad Yankee teams have some mystique is because they were SO unlike the franchise's norm. It's the same reason that the 1986 Mets have a similar level of mystique...because the ultimate success is SO unlike the franchise's norm, heh heh. The Mets' tumble had already started in 1991...they were actually having a pretty good season and then they collapsed big-time that year, tried to buy their way back into contention prior to 1992 and saw that fail spectacularly. Once Bobby V became the manager things started to head in the right direction, but that guy was so deeply insecure and had a major inferiority complex, he really did. It's sad because he's no dummy when it comes to baseball, but in a lot of ways I think he was absolutely his own worst enemy as a manager. He was one of those types who get on people's nerves without even really trying.

Mets showing a little fight after falling behind 4-0 and being no-hit for four innings. Now tied 5-5. Maybe Alonso goes on a HR tear at some point, but at this point, I really hope the Mets shop him around as the deadline approaches. Might be their best chance to actually get something good back. If they dare to sign him to big money and he continues to be the .220ish whiff-prone hitter who has that way of rarely getting it done when his team really needs him to (see today), they could be stuck with him a long time, and not in a good way.

Really was such a crazy time for that franchise. Even though the championships haven't been coming at a rate the Yankee faithful expect over the last couple of decades, they're still respectable and competitive most seasons. They had become SUCH a joke for that relatively brief period...and even though the Mets didn't really do THAT much in the grand scheme back then (only making the playoffs in 1986 and 1988, and of course, only one WS appearance), they absolutely owned NY for about 6-7 years. They haven't since of course...not even close.

I didn't see every goal that he allowed, but from what I saw in Game 4, he might as well have been playing for the 2023-24 Devils...in that game he didn't much of a chance...Colorado was getting insane looks. But when you're under .870 in save% for the series and put up a .000 QS%, not exactly great optics to say that you were playing your best hockey, sorry Connor.

Agree with MD2020. I think Holtz's future in general is still a bit murky. He has a big shot but it's not terribly accurate, he's a bit slow, and he's still working on improving a deficient all-around game. I'm not saying that he CAN'T eventually put it together enough to become the sniper we all hoped, more that I don't feel like it's any lock for that to happen. He did take some steps forward last season, I will absolutely give him that. @nessus be careful about making a big deal about Sharangovich...his +/- was terrible compared to just about all of his teammates not named Huberdeau. He benefitted by getting minutes on a bad team where his shortcomings probably would've prevented him from getting the same playing time with a better and deeper team. He also was helped by a bloated shooting%...he did score 26 goals over his final 56 GP (that's a 38 goal pace over a full season), but on 19.7% shooting; he's a career 14.2% shooter overall. And Sharangovich fattening up in garbage time games is nothing new...he did that here too. I'm far from convinced that he's a perennial 30+ goal scorer from here on out...or that he'll ever have a good enough all-around game to be more than a guy who puts up goals for bad teams.