GDT: #3 - 01/19/21 | devils @ RANGERS | 7:00 - MSG

[CasusBelli]

Strome is comparable to Rantanen?

He’s our 1RW. It’s relative to roster. Hughes is the Devils 1C but probably a 2C on contenders.

 

[Kovalev27]

Kakko has played 7 mins

after that first period where he was the best player on the ice. He’s up to 7 mins total.

 

[NYR94]

That paper MSG is awesome

 

[IronBloodedLion]

Over/ Under on a Kaako hatty in the third?

Ya know, him getting some skin in the game.

He’ll score 2 and Quinn will bench him next game for not getting the Hatty. “He knows what he’s gotta do.”

 

[Betelgeuse]

I'm feeling a huge 3rd here. Let's go Zibby.

 

[Tob]

Why does Gauthier need to do to prove he needs more ice time? I feel like he’s creating offense every shift he has. He wins puck battles. He goes to the net. He creates separation with his speed. And yet every game he’s at 7-9 minutes. Like WTF

that's the crazy thing. Panarin, Zibanejad, Kreider, Laffy, Kakko, Chytil, Gauthier, Lemieux, and Howden are all performing well. It's a lot of bad ice time distribution and Strome killing Panarin's production singlehandedly.

 

[Black Aces]

Kakko has played 7 mins

after that first period where he was the best player on the ice. He’s up to 7 mins total.

If he played like strome has he would be a healthy scratch

 

[CasusBelli]

Ok but it still directly contradicts what you said.

Top six forwards play on the PP but not all forwards who play on the PP are top six forwards.

 

[Rangers in 7]

Quinn is f***ing clueless

 

[Mikos87]

That’s going to be impossible when Strome keeps giving the puck away to the other team.

Should have pulled it to the backhand, also think Panarin gave Alexis a pass that only a truly elite player could receive with aplomb. Time to start getting pucks on net.

 

[FireGerardGallant]

Over/ Under on a Kaako hatty in the third?

Ya know, him getting some skin in the game.

He needs to play to do that

 

[NYRangers0723]

In 3 games, he has 6 points. That's not just one good game.

Kakko has not looked bad at all. It’s still way too early to make that call. Look I get it many of our fans are neurotransmitter impatient but let’s wait and see after a weeks at least lol

 

[Fitzy]

I mean, you're probably going to see some line shuffling in the third.

But a lot of what you're seeing today is an 'off' day in classic form from Georgiev. 3 of the 5 goals he allowed, and 2 of the 4 that stood were really bad, and he was beaten badly by the simplest of breakaway from Hughes.

The high percentage chances have been pretty close otherwise.

 

[CasusBelli]

Quinn is f***ing clueless

Seems like Saturday was the players just angry about losing. Devils got some lucky breaks tonight, but luck doesn’t account for the whole score.

 

[dangsLITE]

Somehow Kakko only has 1 more second of icetime than Gauthier through 2...

 

[Doctyl]

Top six forwards play on the PP but not all forwards who play on the PP are top six forwards.

Top 12 forwards play on the PP

 

[Matt Rentfree]

I liked Strome so much more when he was on the 3rd line with Names and Fast.

He's this years Fast. The fact that he's playing with Panarin and PP1 makes me hate him more than is warranted.

Fault is on Quinn

What did Fast ever do to you to deserve an insult like that?

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Quinn is well on his way to ruining Kakko. Before Quinn got a hold of him you had a puck possession machine with elite board play and puck protection play who had swagger and could beat you in many ways. Confident in his abilities to try things and take chances.

Enter David Quinn who would love to have a team of 18 Brett Howdens, and through usage and messaging basically shattered any kind of confidence Kakko had and now he’s just trying to appease his coach so he can just get ice time. No confidence, no risk because he doesn’t want to get benched.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Can someone explain to me why Strome is on PP1 over Buch?

 

[NYRangers0723]

Strome has been shit but who are you bumping up and replacing him with? Knowing this coach it’ll be Howden getting second line minutes.

. Unfortunately our lack of center depth is the main radon why Strome is in the top 6. The one thing we haven’t been able to get in the draft is a legit C prospect

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

I mean they had 22 shots on goal in the 2nd period lol

They had what? 4 PPs?

Most of those shots came from the outside. They're making it wayyy to easy on the NJ D in particular. If they're going to step up and try to trap, dump it in and punish them into making mistakes.

 

[CasusBelli]

Top 12 forwards play on the PP

It certainly seems that way under this regime. We are one steady unit and the other seems to be an Excel random number generator picking jersey numbers.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Quinn is well on his way to ruining Kakko. Before Quinn got a hold of him you had a puck possession machine with elite board play and puck protection play who had swagger and could beat you in many ways. Confident in his abilities to try things and take chances.

Enter David Quinn who would love to have a team of 18 Brett Howdens, and through usage and messaging basically shattered any kind of confidence Kakko had and now he’s just trying to appease his coach so he can just get ice time. No confidence, no risk because he doesn’t want to get benched.

Only a matter of time before Quinn turns on Laf. Hell, Laf took a shift with Howden and Lemieux.

 

[Woncka]

Does anyone actually want to hit Hughes? The guy is 170lbs soaking wet. He’s skating around untouched

Those guys are hard to hit without taking penalties

How many times have you seen Patrick Kane or Johnny Gaudreau laid out? And if you do its usually a big one and noteworthy

 

[Tob]

Hope Gorton is checking his desk drawers to see if he's forgotten about an old 2C that's still laying around. I'd take f***ing Step over Strome right now.