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Colin White screws us again


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From the official recap of tonight's game on NHL.com:

Jagr skated to the faceoff circle, spun and fired a shot. As White came out from behind the net, he nudged Brodeur and it knocked the goalie slightly off the goalpost.

Jagr's shot hit Brodeur in the back and went into the goal.

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You could see Marty curse after that first goal. He was perfect til White came in with the assist.

White was actually having a monster of a game up until that point.

Kind of amazing the Devils have lost both games on bone head plays.

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My question is why two players (White and Madden) were chasing Jagr behind the net on the play? That sort of created the jam up and let Jagr get free where he could get the shot off.

As for White he was the Devils best defensemen until he got that brutal eye injury in camp. You can point to his injuries in the last two playoffs as a reason why the Devils got knocked out in the 2nd round the last two years.

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Are you serious? Last year it was clearly Raflaski, and before that it was obviously Stevens. White has always been the #2 or #3 D-man at most, and he seems to be having a lot of trouble being thrown into the #1 roll this year.
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considering the amount of time it took marty to get back into position, it didn't really seem like he planned on hugging the post to begin with. yes, white interfered with him, but he seemed content with where he was, and it's an angle that hes gotten beaten on way too many times on the past. white's not the scapegoat here, neither is marty.

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It's so funny that we're blaming our defense for letting in 1 goal. Let's put the blame where it belongs--our inability to score goals. I think any team in the league would be thrilled to be giving up 1 or 2 goals a game and taking a shutout into the 3rd period.... TWICE. Score goals and watch how much better our defense looks..

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considering the amount of time it took marty to get back into position, it didn't really seem like he planned on hugging the post to begin with. yes, white interfered with him, but he seemed content with where he was, and it's an angle that hes gotten beaten on way too many times on the past. white's not the scapegoat here, neither is marty.

Watching it live I thought it was Marty trying to hedge his bets defending against the guy on the post expecting a pass instead of a shot. I think Marty is pressing and putting too much pressure on himself right now which leads to him not playing within himself and trying to do too much like the weird goal in game 1 and this goal last night.

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