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  1. Caps are 14-6-2 in their last 22. Yet another head coach (a rookie no less) who's light years ahead of the fossil that helped to kill the Devils' season.
  2. So the Devils play exactly one game over the next six days: Friday @ Buffalo (3/29). After that, they don't play again until Tues, vs the Pens (4/2). By then some of the current "games in hand" that teams have on the Devils will have evened out. As far as semi-catchable/in the mud with the Devils teams go: Flyers: 3/28 @ Montreal, 3/30 vs Blackhawks, 4/1 vs Isles Caps: 3/28 @ Leafs, 3/30 vs Bruins Red Wings: 3/28 @ Hurricanes, 3/30 @ Panthers, 4/1 @ Lightning Isles: 3/28 @ Panthers, 3/30 @ Lightning, 4/1 @ Flyers Not mentioning the Sabres or Pens because the way I see it, if the Devils fall behind either team at this point, they're probably screwed anyway. When 4/2 rolls around, here's who's playing who: Pens @ Devils Caps @ Sabres Isles @ Blackhawks Basically, we'll know for sure by 4/2 if the Devils have any chance at all, or are merely playing out the string.
  3. They won two in a row. They didn't look particularly good doing out...outshot 81-55 combined in the two games. I know insane goaltending has helped, but FWIW, as far as bright spots go, the Devils have suddenly killed 42 out of their last 46 penalties. They've moved into the Top 10 to boot...go figure.
  4. We know how it goes with news cycles...right now, the Baltimore bridge collapse is to Ohtani was what 9/11 was to Gary Condit. Not to make light of ANYTHING, more just pointing out how quickly some stories become less "urgent". Shero did bring in Palms (while shedding some guys) to start things off, as well as John Moore, Lee Stepniak, David Schlemko, Sergei Kalinin...and of course, set up a credit line to shop at the Penguin Dollar Store. He also had lingering deadwood that still needed to be excised...that team had so little on the roster at the time. I was against it at the time, but you can definitely make the argument that Shero could've traded Cory. AEWHistory made a case for it at the time, to his credit. That initial 2015-16 Shero team somehow went 38-36-8...they were even 29-21-7 at one point, before falling apart.
  5. Think about how much better these numbers could be if Bratt wasn’t in such a shooting funk. But yeah basically these guys are going to have to keep putting up a lot of points. The players are really on their own.
  6. Didn't see Constellation, but you made me think of another recent series finale that left many fans disappointed. Did you see Hightown? It ran for three seasons (SPOILERS COMING). The story takes place in Cape Cod, where a lesbian police officer named Jackie Quinones is investigating a murder in the initial season...over the course of the show, she struggles mightily with substance abuse, getting clean and then relapsing, and all too often as a cop wants to become a "savior", at hers and often other people's expense. By the series finale, she has not only gotten clean for what feels like for good (it feels like she finally did it for the right reasons), but she clearly has chosen a side, and that side is, for lack of better words, is to be "good". A fellow police offer (Ray Abruzzo) follows a much different path, becoming more and more incredibly corrupt, to the point where all of his actions have forced him completely to the dark side, and that was REALLY where the finale lay...the highly contrasting roads taken by Jackie and Ray (who were friends and well as colleagues) over the course of the show. It's clearly that Jackie, by having "chosen a side", is going to take down Ray, which we won't get to see, and it's clear that Ray KNOWS that Jackie's absolutely going to do what it takes to take him down. Jackie's growth and Ray's decline reached their zeniths was really what the finale was about, more than every last story line being wrapped up with a bow (which is what most fans wanted). I don't necessarily need to see HOW Jackie takes down Ray in some fourth season; knowing that she's in a place where she CAN, and Ray knows that he's in a place that he won't be able to stop her is enough for me.
  7. Yeah it's basically a question of most of the staff needing to be fired off into the sun the day after the season ends. It's been brought up plenty but man you can really see what a downgrade Groan was from Brunette. The Devils are basically going to have to try to win ENTIRELY on their talent, which is what they managed to do last night, despite being outplayed for significant stretches. Of course once Allen (.833 QS%) and Kahkonen's (.667 QS%) puck luck runs out, that probably won't be enough. Would love to believe that there's some chance, ANY chance for a shocking late-season tear...but goddamn, nothing points to it being a real possibility.
  8. And to give everyone an idea of exactly how much Allen is saving the Devils’ bacon…he’s put up an .833 QS% since coming here. 53% is about average, and that’s exactly where Allen sits for his career. Sadly, unless this team suddenly figures out how to stop killing their goalies this season, this sh!t is as unsustainable as it can possibly get.
  9. Also, while on the "Fitz please don't" train...don't bring Toffoli back. Not even on a short-term deal. Said it before, but Toffoli's the kind of player where if you put together a highlight reel of his goals, and then couple that with the fact he's scored 30+ two seasons in a row, it's easy to say "I want that guy, he can really find the net!"...and of course, everyone loves goals. But after having seen him with the Devils, and seeing how Winnipeg's doing with him in the lineup (albeit a short sample), I now view him as more of a "cosmetic" guy, who yeah, puts some pucks home but doesn't really move the needle much, and who you don't really miss as much as you'd think you would once he's gone. You can also put together of a reel of games where you barely even notice he played, or where his lack of speed hurts his linemates. Nothing against him, and I understood making the deal the first time, but I wouldn't understand a Part Deux with him. He just doesn't do nearly enough else, and besides, I'd much rather see the Devils add physicality or more of an all-arounder.
  10. Since the start of 2022-23: Goalie A: .900 save%, -12.1 GSAA, .505 QS% Goalie B: .903 save%, -3.1 GSAA, .571 QS% Goalie A is Markstrom Goalie B is Vanecek Sorry Fitz, if you wind up with Markstrom AND you have to give up key assets to do it, I’ll consider it a “throw it against the wall and hope it sticks” failure. The fact is based on the balance of the last two seasons, you have no idea what Markstrom’s gonna provide, and that’s a serious problem. He basically had one nice extended streak (22 games, .926 save% from early December to early March this season), but has been plenty meh the rest of the time over the last two years. He’s not a solution, he's a giant fvcking question mark. Question Markstrom indeed.
  11. Isles, Pens, Caps, Wings and Flyers ALL in action on Thurs…and none of them are playing each other. Same ol drill…hope for a fvckton of help.
  12. At least the Devils have a game left against the Flyers too…of course being how late that game comes in the season, it may not matter by then. Yeah it’s still a big-time long shot.
  13. At this point the team to focus on is the Flyers. The Devils are 6 points back of them but with the same number of games played. Caps up 5 but have two games in hand.
  14. Glad they won. FFS they’ve gotta stop looking so damned disheveled in their own end.
  15. Sadly some fans don’t seem to be as happy about it as they should…
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