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This is apparently a healthy scratching for Severson. Again. I don't get it. We've lost two in a row, NEVER beat the Blues, and tonight was the night Hynes thought it would be a good idea to scratch one of our best defensemen so Ben Lovejoy can play? I mean, fvck off. I think Hynes has done a good job this year, but this is non-sensical.

 

 

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Simple. "What have you done for me lately." Lovejoy was playing well and now Damon, not so much

Severson hasn't been very good recently, but I don't think scratching him for Lovejoy is what they'd refer to in the corporate world as a 'best practice'. In fact, it's downright stupid, but hey- what the hell do I know? Hynes better be right.


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7 minutes ago, MadDog2020 said:


Severson hasn't been very good recently, but I don't think scratching him for Lovejoy is what they'd refer to in the corporate world as a 'best practice'. In fact, it's downright stupid, but hey- what the hell do I know? Hynes better be right.


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Lovejoy played fairly well in his last run of games earlier this year while Severson has been struggling quite a bit lately.  I don't mind the swap and I do think it is temporary.  Also as others have said Greene has been playing lousy this year but as long as he is captain he won't be scratched any time soon.

Also 7-5 Devils.

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10 minutes ago, CarpathianForest said:

Didn't we play STL already and it was a 5-2 loss? This going to be tough. I don't see a win here, realistically.

For sure will be a challenge, Blues are one of the top teams in the west.

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Severson has been god awful these last few games. Taking a penalty late when we were down 2 goals and finally gaining momentum was probably the final straw to bench him today. 

At least with Kinkaid it appears we do tend to score more than 3 goals a game..

LGD! 4-3 Devils. Lovejoy with the GWG :lol:

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1 hour ago, MadDog2020 said:

This is apparently a healthy scratching for Severson. Again. I don't get it. We've lost two in a row, NEVER beat the Blues, and tonight was the night Hynes thought it would be a good idea to scratch one of our best defensemen so Ben Lovejoy can play? I mean, fvck off. I think Hynes has done a good job this year, but this is non-sensical.

I'm actually OK with this.

For one, I'm OK with Hynes trying to hold guys accountable.  I think Severson can use a bit of that. 

For another, though I don't think Plan A is for Lovejoy to become an everyday player, there will be games where he'll play by necessity.  It's not a bad thing to get him some game action here and there.  And he was OK in his last batch of games. 

As far as KK goes, sometimes you throw a guy like him in a spot like this, and say, "OK, we believe in you, go get 'em, let's see what you've got!"  At any rate, at least start finding out if Lack potentially might have relevancy here beyond the B-Devs. 

Sometimes you roll the dice.  And though I obviously hope the Devils don't lose tonight, I'm not going to lose my sh!t if they do.  An 0-2-1 mini-slump isn't going to kill them.  Nice fact:  just ONCE this season have they failed to come away with at least one point over any given two games. 

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1 hour ago, Satans Hockey said:

I didn't realize the last time we beat them was that 7-1 blizzard win game in 2014. Also can't believe we are 0-6 against Jake Allen who is completely overrated. I wish Kinkaid would have started against Buffalo and Cory could have started tonight but it is what it is. 

LETS GO DEVILS!!! 

Jake Allen isn't in tonight -- we're playing Carter Hutton.  

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Pretty much agree with Hynes on his quotes here...no issue with any of it:

http://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/nhl/devils/2018/01/02/keith-kinkaid-ben-lovejoy-return-devils-lineup-damon-severson-defensive-breakdowns-john-hynes/997050001/

Like that KK feels a little pushed by Lack...can't be a bad thing.

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