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1 hour ago, NJDfan1711 said:
But on the wing he has to go into the corners, right? If my star player has a concern with his shoulder, I don't want him up against the boards waiting for an opponent to drill him into the glass.
I assume he plays more in the middle in open play, he just doesn't take faceoffs ever and he's not going to the rest of the season, this is obviously a health concession now that we've seen it under two coaches so people just have to accept Jack being on the wing is going to be the deal until our season's over and he gets shut down.
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1 hour ago, ButlerBulldog said:
What’s particularly puzzling about the Nemec situation is that neither analytics nor the eye test supports Green’s assertions that Simon’s play has dipped, so I’d like to hear more about the rationale for benching him—although, as I said earlier, I don’t mind Nemec resting in and of itself, as this is the first time he’s played an NHL schedule, so he could probably use a day to reset. I just don’t want him to become the new Holtz now that the original appears consigned to Western Conference oblivion, as nothing we’ve seen suggests he’s not playing hard or paying attention to his coaches. It’s certainly possible there have been issues behind the scenes, but I don’t like to assume the worst about people in the absence of empiric evidence.
As for the Hughes brothers, I absolutely think Jack should’ve been benched for a shift after his temper tantrum in the home game against the Kings, as he was fortunate to avoid a game misconduct after breaking his stick on the boards, and I think Luke needs to sit 1-2 games as punishment for his carelessness with the puck.
It may be the first time he’s played an NHL schedule but he played like 65 games in the AHL last year, not like he crash dummied into a rookie wall like someone who played 30 or so games in college last year
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I've said this for a while going back to Fitz's offseason comments on Holtz last year...they obviously think he's a slacker and needs a boot up his ass constantly. Maybe they're right about that part of it, but it seems like such a rash miscarriage of justice that ONLY HE gets ragged for bullsh!t everyone else does a lot more often, including other younger players. Nemec getting benched while Luke plays on is just the latest example of selective enforcement.
Like I get you want to come down harder on the people who aren't self-starters but you can't let everyone else off the damn hook entirely here. Especially when two of the biggest offenders of sloppiness and pouting will never be called out because of their last name.
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14 hours ago, ButlerBulldog said:
What if Lindy starts attending games as a fan just to heckle Holtz?
I’m only kidding, of course. LGD!
If the presser (and today’s lineup) proved anything today it’s that the Holtz treatment wasn’t solely Lindy
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52 minutes ago, Satans Hockey said:
A lot of Crystal Palace fans want them out as owners. Seen a few banners about it at games, I'm sure it doesn't help they are American either. I don't follow their other sports teams enough to know what those fans think.
Unless you’re Rob and Ryan rescuing a fifth tier club from insolvency all Yank owners get frowned on overseas lol
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1 hour ago, titans04 said:
Certainly a good theory if you still trust our ghost of a GM. Personally I think he threw away any benefit of the doubt simply based on his complete inaction until the season was in the sh!tter and repeatedly flushed.
That plus I don't assume his next hire will be his last one given his extension and the lassez-faire atitude of ownership toward the product on the ice. Sure they spend but do they really care about winning, or just about being relevant enough to sell tickets? Their track record with multiple teams suggest it's the latter.
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3 hours ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
Some fair questions that need to be asked tomorrow:
”If a coaching change was an option for you, why did you wait this long to do so?”
“Did your obvious friendship with Lindy cloud your judgment about what was best for the team?”
One I wish would be asked is why did you feel a guy who'd done such a poor job with the power play this year deserve a promotion?
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Just now, Lateralous said:
Alex Holtz right now
Until they banish him to Calgary in 48 hours anyway
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8 minutes ago, Oglethorpe13 said:
He should've gave daws a game off today. Schmid hasn't been great, but daws has been playing an awful lot. And it's looking like he could use a break
Lindy and his job security is holding us hostage, he doesn’t care about running Nico into the ground…gotta play the guy with the best chance to win today
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42 minutes ago, NJDevils1214 said:
Yea, I don't give a sh!t about any of that. Actions would go a lot further with me than putting him in an uncomfortable situation where he has to sit in front of a camera and answer questions we already know the answers to, and that change nothing, about this disappointing, in the toilet, season. Does nothing for me.
Firing Ruff would do a lot more.
Eh I'd just rather my GM not be a total coward after hamming it up on every single podcast last year when things were going well disappearing this year in addition to all the other issues we have anyway. It's indicative of a top-down attitude of being afraid of accountability and answering tough questions.
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People can harp on our goalies till the cows come home but they’re not the reason we frequently make other crap goalies look great. Or the reason our coaching sucks. Or the reason we continue to play down to awful teams.
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1 hour ago, nmigliore said:
I watched - the end result was a laugher but Daws had to stand on his head a bit in the late 1st/early 2nd, Sharks could've EASILY went up 2-0 and who knows where this goes if that happens.
It's unfortunate the OOT scoreboard didn't give us any help with Pens and Flyers both winning in matchups you'd probably project them to lose.
Or if Blackwood didn’t do what Blackwood does and come up with yet another injury when he was probably going to stick it to us
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Finesse wings don't usually get a first. Grabner's the flash point for what Toffoli might get...we thought a 2 and Rykov was an overpay then lol (and to be fair ANYthing would have been an overpay with how Grabner did here).
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The tough thing with calling it personal is writers get to have opinions too, Chere once printed it’s time to show Lou the door, TG called us Mickey Mouse over the way we handled the blackout game. It’s easy to say ‘Novo made it personal’ but if Politi writes that are we saying it? Btw Novo also said in the article Lindy was respected in hockey and didn’t deserve to have fans calling for his job on a nightly basis so it wasn’t as personal as being made out.
Where I’m surprised Novo went that far was referring to Fitz being in hiding. While I completely agree with that point, it does sound more fan blogosphere than news writer.
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3 hours ago, MadDog2020 said:
I’m seeing them in Vegas in March. At least it’s Vegas and I’ll be hammered.
You and the Devils both!
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47 minutes ago, Satans Hockey said:
Using the rest of my buybacks and the other games I'm posting for sale. Want any money I can get back for this season that I can get. Besides them wearing the stadium series jerseys again and the last home game of the season I don't care about watching from home instead.
So happy they raised the ticket prices by 9%, this team doesn't warrant that on or off the ice.
I used a lot of mine early, not in any way thinking there was a way I wouldn't renew, but between this team's gutlessness, lack of accountability and the dumbass overreach of a ticket hike I definitely have sellers' remorse now, I'll have to hold out on using them next year, and the damn buybacks are usually the biggest selling point since it helps me shed the crap games without worrying about trying to get twenty cents on the dollar
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Yeah sorry dude nobody wants to hear about the draft this year when we were supposed to be past hoping the next shiny thing will be the answer down the road. Really it's getting high time soon where draft picks are more trade options than actual roster options anyway. But yeah talking about the draft when the Devils for all intents and purposes were eliminated from the playoffs once and for all in a season where they were AT LEAST supposed to be playing playoff games again is just not reading the room.
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Injured or not injured Jack's definitely got a full Kovalsuck attitude going now, but he's far from the only one on this sh!tbag excuse of a roster. They aren't even scoring enough goals lately to complain about the goaltending, especially the rancid power play but hey they're all fat and happy cause they won their Stanley Cup last Saturday
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1 hour ago, Nicomo said:
I don’t gamble, but man this feels like easy money on TB…
Except this is the kind of game we usually win to get the false hope cooking, then we'll lose to another sh!tty California team or three.
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16 hours ago, njbuff said:
It's not even worth discussing anymore.
There is more than enough evidence to make a coaching change, but it's now too late. They aren't going to the postseason.
If the Oilers, with the two best players in the world, can make a coaching change, so can the Devils.
Fitz has obviously punted on the 2023-24 season. The players have punted on the 2023-24 season too, with the way they have played, especially lately.
What a mess.
It definitely seems like last Saturday was their Cup given the lifelessness around the team in the other three games over the last week and a half. As a result I’m well on my way to punting the season too, left Thursday’s game absurdly early, sold my ticket for today’s game soon after and I’m glad to now have two weeks before my next home game, by then either the team will be totally out of it and it’ll be no pressure games or they’ll still be in an illusory race and the market will be good enough to sell tickets if I’m still on an emotional break by then.
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The most we might get is Kate Madigan or Dan McKinnion going down to the bench to ‘observe’ lol
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Unless the chickensh!t GM is also speaking at the presser to announce a change this is just normal pregame availability and/or a PR move
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51 minutes ago, NJDevils1214 said:
Yea well Jack also made a comment a week ago(or w/e) about how much easier it is when they get saves, but you couldn't tell the way they were playing. They couldn't score their way out of a wet paper bag right now.
Not even getting on him for that because yes our goalies have been awful 85-90% of the year, but it does look bad after this recent stretch of games.
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If they lose to Tampa Bay this weekend, there won't be a decision left to make. If they somehow get three or four points the next two games and keep up the illusion of being a playoff contender in a sh!tty conference it just gives Fitz another excuse to stay in the bunker and stand pat.
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I just hope we're not gonna get to the point soon where we start thinking playing with each other is bad for them both...cause it seems like they (and being able to rule the roost) are bringing out the worst in each other