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devlman last won the day on May 31 2021

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  1. Because he’s a young defenseman who is currently slated as being part of our future. And you are mixing definitions of failure. Re-read my definition of it. Has nothing to do with personal progression or their ceilings. On a side note I am glad to see there’s no name calling or embarrassment of a failed grammar lesson from you today 👍
  2. It’s a shame because I think he’s tried to throw his body around more. The problem is his hockey IQ needs a lot more work. And out of the 3 young dmen he got the most sheltered minutes. Yet the improvement has been only marginal. And again here’s my problem with Luke. He’s failed this season, and here is my definition of failure: Did he help lead his team to a playoff berth in his top-4 role? The answer is no. He was forced into a role that he was not yet ready for. In fact a lot of the blame falls on management for not sheltering him more. From his partners in the system, to his deployment. He’s been put in positions to fail and not learn from mistakes fast enough. Every vet dman was hurt for an extended period of time this year, some of the injuries overlapped. Yet Fitz sat quietly on Dougie’s LTIR and didn’t bring in reinforcements. Add in the glaring goalie problems and you have to scratch your head at Fitz for not bringing in support. You can’t throw these kids to the wolves and expect them to succeed in leading the team to the postseason. The very average DiSimone was brought in near the freaking TDL and he instantly brought a boost to everyone. Fitz couldn’t have brought in support sooner? And don’t get me started on Lindy’s system which was asking too much for young defensemen to handle consistently. But watching Luke play this huge role he wasn’t ready for, especially when the games got meaningful, has been very rough and detrimental to the team imo. And btw the same applies to Nemec and Bahl.
  3. Fitz has a lot of work to do. And he only has himself to blame. A top-tier goalie is the obvious. Then the bottom 6 needs a lot of work. McLeod needs to be replaced, possibly Bastian as well since he added little. Willman and Tierney cannot be on NHL rosters, except in the one or two emergency games. Sandpaper and grit to balance out the top 6 would be needed. The once reliable Mercer can be expendable. Maybe Stillman is ready? He was drafted to fill a bottom 6 role. Then, I’d like to see an upgrade to the d-corps. We can’t expect Bahl, Luke, Nemec to make an exceptional jump over the summer. They need to be sheltered more to not only aid our playoff pursuit, but to aid their own development. If someone like Siegs can be moved out maybe we can get an upgrade on defense there. At the very minimum, depth on defense would be nice so that rotation can be utilized.
  4. You seem to have trouble with reading comprehension. I am not saying he is a technical rookie. I am saying that when people say our ‘3 young rookie defensemen, we all know what and who that means’. Pretending otherwise means you’re obtuse.
  5. ‘Sufficiently emotionally stable’? Yeah that’s not grammatically correct. It’s not even close lol. The way I phrased it was perfectly fine. You’re not grammatically stable to fit the criteria either, it seems. No sh!t buddy. I’m not debating his technical status.
  6. Lol really? So when someone says our 3 ‘rookie’ defensemen (players sub-82 games experience start of the year) we are gonna get all tripped up by automatically excluding Bahl from the topic on the technicality? Ok…
  7. Lol I don’t even know what you’ve ’called out’ that I’ve said. You disagreed with my posts? Cool, man. Welcome to the forum. In the mean time I can have a discussion with Nicomo and anyone else who wants to disagree respectfully. You don’t seem emotionally stable to meet that criteria.
  8. He wasn’t bad tonight??? Well if we cannot even establish common ground on tonight’s performance then we won’t agree on the season.
  9. Excuse me if I don’t take ‘game score’ as some gospel be all end all. Case in point, he stunk tonight, yet his game score was right up there with Max Willman. Wrong again. Even a league average powerplay (which the devils are above) will boost a player’s point totals if they’re on PP1. You don’t see many rookies on the first unit of a good NHL powerplay. The game is more than points, especially for a defenseman.
  10. Agreed. And again I never questioned his promise or ceiling. It’s ok to say a talented young player has looked poor playing the role he’s played.
  11. Are you ok? It was all rookie dmen in the topic. Sit this one out if you’re not keeping up.
  12. I wasn’t expecting him to make the same mistakes repeatedly with the frequency he has. I also wasn’t expecting him to be so turnover prone and getting so much ice time. Yes, as I said far too much has been put on his shoulders. He’s only 20. But on its surface, for an aspiring playoff team, Luke hasn’t been nearly good enough. Not really his fault but he hasn’t been good enough to play the minutes he has and for this team to make the postseason.
  13. So he plays well for a few weeks when the games are the most meaningless with the playoffs out of reach and he’s declared ‘fantastic’? Lol ok. Definitely disagree that he was ‘really good’ in Oct/Nov/Dec. And don’t cite his point total as evidence, he gets major powerplay minutes on an offensively loaded team. (Peter Harold btw would put up a lot of points on this powerplay). No one cares if a defenseman is scoring points if they’re giving it right up defensively.
  14. So it’s Marino’s fault Bahl made that stupid reverse pass which led to the goal? Or that he went for a change with the goalie pulled completely vacating the point?
  15. Thing is, I can post whenever and whatever I want. I, like a lot of posters, post more when things go bad to express what needs to be changed. If you think I have the time to care enough to ‘have it out’ for one of our best prospects then you’re paranoid. Yes, I absolutely wanted him to sh!t the bed tonight in our biggest game of the year so I can come make a post online.. Luke Hughes has had a very disappointing rookie season. Bright future. Not a 21+ min dman on a team with no margin for error. Plain and simple. If you’re mad people don’t hate on Nemec more then take it up with somebody?
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