Jerrydevil

Well, that was about as decisive a win for Obama as the first debate was for Romney. Romney basically commended the Obama administration for their work during his term and sounded pretty desperate in the final statement. "This nation is the hope of the earth"....a little over the top Mitt

He'll be so pleased that he "won" the third debate when he gets creamed on Election Day.

Am I the only one that's legit worried?  

For me, there's a seed of doubt because of Lundqvist. Otherwise, I believe we're going to shove it in their face.

My wish is that we won't see a thread later tonight titled "We should have started Hedberg."

I don't think it's unreasonable to want Brodeur to sit for Game 4. He is not a sacred cow anymore, and shouldn't be treated as such.

Foster: Come on, guys, her boobs aren't THAT nice.

The +/- argument is one that never made sense to me. He's been the best player on terrible teams, of course he's going to have a ton of ice time. Sure he might have some bad turnovers, but the over whelming majority probably has a lot to do with the rest of the sucky teams.

Except that Marian Hossa didn't put up the minuses like Kovalchuk did. Blame the player, too.

He can put up all the points he wants, doesn't mean much if Kovy's giving them away and more besides on the defensive end.

That's his career in a nutshell.

I will agree with you only when the other team starts jugling the puck on their sticks while the devils players are just haplessly standing around watching.

Krusty : "oh come on!! He is just spinning the ball on his finger!!! Just grab it!!"

Great Simpsons reference! LOL!

wanted to make a thread for a devil i appreciate, fvck me right?

No, it's cool.

Niedermayer spent many great years here.

The years were great. Too bad he wasn't until 10 years into his career. I don't want it to seem like I'm getting on the guy for being a very good player, but we are talking about a number retirement.

It's sad how many people are still bitter about him taking less money to play with his brother.  

I'm not bitter. I said I didn't care what the Devils did with Mike Mottau's number.

As recently as the beginning of this season, I wasn't ready to see No. 27 go up. Now I'm ready. He was a supremely-talented player who consistently gave us "How the hell did he do that?" moments. He was a winner and was a huge part of this team's success for a long time. It's not like he badmouthed the organization or pissed on the fans. He always played hard (though he was so good that it looked effortless) and, from everything I saw and heard, spoke fondly of the Devils.

Time to let the insignificant stuff go and remember the good times, IMO.

I'm just not moved by it. Indifference reigns.

I certainly won't be buying tickets to see it.

Is David Phelps the son of Ken Phelps?

"But my baseball people loved Ken Phelps' bat. They kept telling me, 'Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps!'"

+1

If Martin were still here he would be the only defensemen that can get the puck out of our zone.

$5 million was awful steep though, wasn't it?

But is that sustained excellence from the system?  Hasek sustained excellence on some pretty underwhelming Buffalo teams and defense but always kept them competative.  Just saying it is hard to tell if Brodeur is THAT GOOD of a goalie when in his prime, he was on a Devils team that could have had a crash test dummy in net and still win.

Why are you hung up on Hasek? He and Brodeur aren't the only goalies to play hockey in the past 20 years. My point is this: Plug in Chris Osgood. Does he have the same career Brodeur did? I don't think so.

Acommplishments padded by playing way too many games a season, having a great defense in front of him for a vast majority of his career, and playing for a good part of his career when ties do not exist.  He is a great goalie, and I will give you that, but his stats are very padded.  His low GAA was easy to get when you have 2-1, 1-1, and 1-0 games druing the late 90's.  Why else would you explain he never got a Vezina then when Hasek got them and Marty had superior stats?  The GM's are not dumb and they see that Hasek was standing on his head every game while Marty was sitting back enjoying only about 20 shots a game.

If you want to say that Hasek was better than Brodeur, I have no problem with you. You need to give Brodeur more credit for sustained excellence though.