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Colorado Rockies 1976 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, sundstrom said: CR76 - the thing i loved about the three videos you posted - the goal songs. The two from the Rock when they couldn't get a good song. And the one from the playoffs w/ RR part 2 - did you notice something about it? Let's just say that the thing we hate wasn't "always there" as so many like to think. MD2020 posted those vids. (Watching them and others like them never get old.) I'll always miss both R&R Part II (when it was just about the "HEY!"s) and the old goal horn. Lots of great memories punctuated by both of those. Edited April 1, 2017 by Colorado Rockies 1976 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagknife Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 12 minutes ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said: MD2020 posted those vids. (Watching them and others like them never get old.) I'll always miss both R&R Part II (when it just about the "HEY!"s) and the old goal horn. Lots of great memories punctuated by both of those. Whenever I hear R&R Part II, I think of 4 players: Brylin, Elias, McKay and Friesen. Brylin for his '95 SCF Game 4 goal, Elias cause of, well everything, McKay for the glass climbing in '95 and Friesen for '03 Hats off and Stick taps to Patty, thank you for all the memories and only wearing one sweater throughout your career. I hope to be able to get a #26 banner next year to complete my set of 5, frame them, and display them proudly in my living room. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hit the post Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Thanks for so many great Devils moments, The game in Philly in 2000 will always stand out as my favorite come back lead by you. May your number hang high from the rafters and you be welcomed with open arms into the hall. A true Devil for sure . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunninWithTheDevil Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 the guy is still unreal 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Brown Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Patty will be in the HHOF. Mark my words. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralous Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Here's a great one from the 2000 playoffs that I haven't seen posted yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralous Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Great pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MadDog2020 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) Both of Patty's goals in game 7 in 2001 against Toronto- one of my all time favorite Elias games. Edited April 2, 2017 by MadDog2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfitz804 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 Nice article by Larry Brooks in today's Post. Article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDog2020 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 https://www.nhl.com/devils/news/weekend-recap-elias-retires/c-288355882Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilsfan118 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 17 hours ago, MadDog2020 said: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Jesus Christ - to have Parise, Kovalchuk, Elias, and 'prime' Clarkson on the ice for a powerplay... compare that to what we have now and it's laughable. . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilsfan118 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 I think one of my favorite memories of Elias (and I can't seem to find a damn video of it) was upon his return in 2005-2006, I think, when he finally managed to make it back after fighting off Hep C. If my memory serves, he scored in that first game back on a slapshot against the Habs. I think it was deflected on its way in actually - but either way, as a fan I was worried he'd never be the same player because of the illness. But scoring in his first game back, I believe, kinda showed us that he'd be just fine. Incredible player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Rockies 1976 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 That was Elias' second game back (2 goals and 2 assists). He really came out flying...4 goals and 12 assists in his first 10 games back in the lineup in 05-06. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilsfan118 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 Another one of my favorite goals from that 2003 cup run. Totally froze the future playoff MVP: 10 minutes ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said: That was Elias' second game back (2 goals and 2 assists). He really came out flying...4 goals and 12 assists in his first 10 games back in the lineup in 05-06. sh!t, well I was close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post devilsrule33 Posted April 2, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) Patrik Elias retiring was going to have me come out of retirement. The last link we all have to those great teams that now seem so far away. I am sure we can debate HHOF or not for a long time and what could have been. And I bet in a different circumstance, on a different team, with a different style, with different teammates, the decision would be easy. But that's what Elias sacrificed, and he doesn't seem to have any issues with that. Patrik Elias did what every die-hard fan of a team wants their star player to do. He put winning before anything else. He took less money, less freedom, less fame for the good of the Devils. He accepted his role for the betterment of the team every time. He switched positions, switched lines and played with much less heralded players. And did so without any confrontation. He was all class. He treated the Devils with more respect than they probably showed him. It’s extremely rare for an athlete to stick for one team their entire career. Elias did this, but it was never a coach and player tied to the hip like say Tom Brady and Bill Belichik or Tim Duncan and Greg Popovich. It was anything but that obviously. After the A-line disbanded, it felt like he constantly took a backseat to other players for whatever reason. Pat Burns, Claude Julien, Brent Sutter, and Jacques Lemaire all seemed to fall in love with other forwards, their style of play and line matching at Elias’ expense. When Brent Sutter came along, he shamefully stripped Elias of the captaincy and gave it to a player that missed training camp and pre-season. In 2009, after one of the best seasons of his career, he saw a 40-year-old mid-season acquisition heavily cut into his minutes. I’ll always remember game 7 -- the saddest game in Devils history for me anyway - where 7 forwards saw more ice-time than Elias. An NHL coach thought it be best to give Jay Pandolfo and Brendan Shanahan 3 more minutes each than Patrik. Shanahan never played another second of NHL hockey. Pandolfo would be scratched the entire 2010 playoffs. But Elias kept quiet only to see three more coaching changes in 2 years. Sure it must have been fun to play second fiddle to Parise seeing ice-time with Brian Rolston and Dean McAmmond, or the lowest of lows – 35-year-old Rob Niedermayer. Remember that in 2010 Elias saw around the same ice-time per game as Brian Rolston and Rob fvcking Niedermayer. He still had 36 even-strength points in 58 games. Yup, he was still around, and 11 years after his career season, Patrik was once again finished in the top 10 of NHL scoring. Not playing with Parise or Kovalchuk. But by making David Clarkson relevant and a washed-up Petr Sykora relevant again (later scratched in the playoffs). That season was the first year in maybe his entire time that a coach used Elias like a horse he could be. At 35 He was a true all situational player playing just under 20-minutes per game (the most he ever played in his career). The Devils kind of needed Elias to be that in 2012. For as much talk about how Elias was that all-situational player, he never was used as one like many star players around the league. He wasn’t going toe-to-toe against other team’s top players. He wasn’t always defending the lead in the final seconds. He could have done that, but the Devils found themselves defending leads more than not and were happy to roll through lines and use a checking line against the other team’s best. In 2007, the Devils had one of the most dynamic lines in the league in Elias, Gomez and Gionta going, but Claude Julien was happy to give Jay Pandolfo as much ice-time as Patrik Elias. Different team, different coach, that line is giving Elias a 90-95 point season. That same season Marty St Louis had 102 points playing 24-minutes a game – almost 5 and a half minutes more than Elias. The Lighting needed St Louis to play that amount. The Devils just didn’t. Elias played more than 19 minutes once in his career. St Louis played 20+ minutes for 11 straight years. Elias was fine with that. He did what was asked for him. He took on any role and style and succeeded at it. Top line, secondary scorer, checking line. The Devils were really really good for 15 years when Patrik Elias was on the ice. With Elias, it seemed we always wanted more from him. But when it’s all said and done, he finished with over 1000 points playing most of his career in the dead-puck era on the most offensively prohibiting teams in the league, while never playing 1st line minutes or power play minutes that any 1000 point player in the history of the league was provided. The last time the Devils made the playoffs, who was the team’s best player that year? It wasn’t the 27-year-old great captain that would leave at seasons end. It wasn’t the 28-year-old 100-million dollar man who scored 83 points playing 5 minutes of PP time and 25 minutes of total time a game. No, it was 35-year-old Patrik Elias. The Devils own team overlooked him and gave the MVP to Zach Parise. The NHL overlooked him giving 1st team all NHL to Ilya Kovalchuk. Par for the course for Patrik Elias. Greatness was always there, but you always had to look a bit harder. Sometime it was missed by his own coaches, sadly his teammates, by fans of the Devils and the NHL. However, it’s not a coincidence the Devils were an elite team when Elias was an elite player. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Devils faltered when Elias stopped being one. Edited April 3, 2017 by devilsrule33 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Rockies 1976 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) Awesome post dr33. Welcome back. You did a nice job fleshing out what I alluded to before...that his team clearly didn't always do right by him. I remember in 2009, he was asked to drag along Zubrus (who for some reason always got treated as being capable of providing more offense than he really could) and Brian "Logo-seeker" Gionta (who was seeing his goal-scoring decline yearly after that fluke 48-goal season). Somehow, through the season's first 30 games or so, that line was actually producing...Gio was at about a point-per-game, and Zubrus had 19 points after his first 26 GP...but of course, it was only a matter of time before Gio and Zubrus fell back to Earth...leading Elias to somehow stubbornly (similar to the 2003-04 season) find a way to remain productive. I LOVE the fact that Elias seems to have made peace with all of that, and is focusing so much on the positives of his Devils career. A different player might bring up some of the mistakes his franchise made...sounds crazy in that Elias was a part of teams that made the playoffs for the large majority of his career, and he did play in four SCFs, but the fact that everyone wonders what his numbers could have been elsewhere shows that, now more than ever, there's a lot of "What if?" with Elias. And I give him a lot of credit for not really delving into that, and him just saying that he was proud to have been a Devil his entire career, with no hard feelings about anything at all. He's truly as classy as it gets. Edited April 3, 2017 by Colorado Rockies 1976 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundstrom Posted April 3, 2017 Author Share Posted April 3, 2017 tremendous post dr33. don't be a stranger! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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