GDT: A Dano and Pepe Vacation: Devils @ Flames 4pm MSGSN

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

BRIGHTSIDE TIME

there are only 4 teams in the East with more ROW than NJ

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

Just win and leave Markstrom in Calgary no stupid trades

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

Normally i’d rather see a sound process over results, but with a road trip like this and all the weird start times, i want points and i don’t care how they get them.

 

[Bleedred]

Just win and leave Markstrom in Calgary no stupid trades

I think he’s about done.

And has 2 years left after this at a pretty high cap hit.

Not as bad as Gibson, but not someone we should be acquiring.

He could have a good season again, but he had a horrific season last year behind a pretty good defensive team. He hasn’t had a good start to this one.

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

I think he’s about done.

And has 2 years left after this at a pretty high cap hit.

Not as bad as Gibson, but not someone we should be acquiring.

He could have a good season again, but he had a horrific season last year behind a pretty good defensive team. He hasn’t had a good start to this one.

Plus he’s out right now with a ginger injury.

Note: for some reason my phone autocorrected “finger” to “ginger” so I left it. Best ginger injury scenarios get a year supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat!

 

[sabremike]

A Day in Calgary…

The Calgary Stampede, which features the largest rodeo in the world:​

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Calgary is often called “Cowtown” because of its Wild West image:​

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The coldest temperature ever recorded in Calgary was a bone chilling -45 °C:​

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There are more volunteers per capita than any other Canadian city:​

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The median age in Calgary is a sprightly 36 years, making it a very young city:​

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Finally, they arrive at the second oldest arena in the NHL, the Saddledome:
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LETS GO DEVILS

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Haula - Hughes - Toffoli
Palat - Hischier - Bratt
Meier - Mercer - Holtz
Smith - McLeod - Lazar/Bastian

Siegenthaler - Nemec
Bahl - Marino
Hughes - Miller

Schmid/Vanecek

 

[forceten]

I'd like to get to Calgary again. I was there for the 1988 winter games. I was just a kid, my father's company was doing work for CTV there. But I recall it as a small city, western, great burgers and steaks due to all the ranching nearby. Our hotel was higher up and we could look out the window over a bunch of not much to the small compact downtown. I bet it's much larger now than then!

 

[ThePrideofStockholm]

Great Gdt! Is Meier, Mercer and Holtz really a line? Why?

 

[Clam Jensen]

Plus he’s out right now with a ginger injury.

Note: for some reason my phone autocorrected “finger” to “ginger” so I left it. Best ginger injury scenarios get a year supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat!

Put him on IR for being a day walker

 

[NinjaKick]

I have no idea whats going on in this thread... but I'm here anyway

LGD

 

[Bleedred]

I’m thinking it’ll be Akira today. Normally he seems to play the guy he’s been playing on the first half of the back to back, but I’m sure there’s several examples of deviating from this. Last year they probably played Blackwood against the lesser opponents later in the year. I remember they gave him weaker Nashville on night one, while Vitek got stronger Dallas on night two.

 

[Whaddagoal]

I have no idea whats going on in this thread... but I'm here anyway

LGD

Nothing like a bit of Ken Daneyko in the morning GDTs to get this party started.....

 

[Guadana]

Great Gdt! Is Meier, Mercer and Holtz really a line? Why?

Mr Ruff The Great Experimentator.

 

[Captain3rdLine]

I’m thinking it’ll be Akira today. Normally he seems to play the guy he’s been playing on the first half of the back to back, but I’m sure there’s several examples of deviating from this. Last year they probably played Blackwood against the lesser opponents later in the year. I remember they gave him weaker Nashville on night one, while Vitek got stronger Dallas on night two.

I could see them playing Vitek just to give Schmid an extra day of rest and save him for tomorrow against Edmonton.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Great Gdt! Is Meier, Mercer and Holtz really a line? Why?

It was just the lineup from last game. We have to wait until warmups to see the lines

 

[Bleedred]

I'd like to get to Calgary again. I was there for the 1988 winter games. I was just a kid, my father's company was doing work for CTV there. But I recall it as a small city, western, great burgers and steaks due to all the ranching nearby. Our hotel was higher up and we could look out the window over a bunch of not much to the small compact downtown. I bet it's much larger now than then!

I’ve been told they’re underrated visits on the NHL circuit, as long as the weather isn’t too
brutal. Visits meaning Calgary and Edmonton and even Winnipeg. I haven’t heard many people saying they wanna live there though, just because of the weather. Vancouver seems to be one of the nicer cities, but it’s also almost always raining or just cloudy during the NHL season.

My friend that works for a team (Sharks) says Raleigh is probably the most boring and also Ottawa (Kanata) and then Columbus, but Raleigh and Kanata for the fact that the hotel isn’t even really in downtown Raleigh/Ottawa and they’re in the middle of nowhere. It’s not really walkable.

Sometimes teams do stay in downtown Ottawa, but they normally stay at the Brookstreet hotel 10 minutes from the arena.

Short Hills, New Jersey was also a bit of a drag, but they got most teams staying either in Jersey City these days or sometimes even in NYC if they play the Rangers on the same trip, so not to have to keep switching hotels. Thats what the Sharks did the most recent time.

The Hilton in Hasbrouck Heights was where most teams stayed when we still played in the Meadowlands. That’s a really dumpy hotel for NHL player standards.

I don’t think many teams played in the Sheraton (or whatever it’s called now) in the Meadowlands. Just like most teams don’t stay in Newark. Though I’m pretty sure the Newark Hilton is nicer than the one in Hasbrouck Heights.

I could see them playing Vitek just to give Schmid an extra day of rest and save him for tomorrow against Edmonton.

Yeah, that may be what happens. It’s a bit hard to predict these days.

I was shocked when it wasn’t Vitek in against Seattle.

Pleasantly shocked, but still shocked.

 

[denverdevil]

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Absolutely cannot go wrong posting this gif in any thread for any situation.

 

[forceten]

I’ve been told they’re underrated visits on the NHL circuit, as long as the weather isn’t too
brutal. Visits meaning Calgary and Edmonton and even Winnipeg. I haven’t heard many people saying they wanna live there though, just because of the weather. Vancouver seems to be one of the nicer cities, but it’s also almost always raining or just cloudy during the NHL season.

My friend that works for a team (Sharks) says Raleigh is probably the most boring and also Ottawa (Kanata) and then Columbus, but Raleigh and Kanata for the fact that the hotel isn’t even really in downtown Raleigh/Ottawa and they’re in the middle of nowhere. It’s not really walkable.

Sometimes teams do stay in downtown Ottawa, but they normally stay at the Brookstreet hotel 10 minutes from the arena.

Short Hills, New Jersey was also a bit of a drag, but they got most teams staying either in Jersey City these days or sometimes even in NYC if they play the Rangers on the same trip, so not to have to keep switching hotels. Thats what the Sharks did the most recent time.

The Hilton in Hasbrouck Heights was where most teams stayed when we still played in the Meadowlands. That’s a really dumpy hotel for NHL player standards.

I don’t think many teams played in the Sheraton (or whatever it’s called now) in the Meadowlands. Just like most teams don’t stay in Newark. Though I’m pretty sure the Newark Hilton is nicer than the one in Hasbrouck Heights.

I think your friend is a little off just because he's going by team hotels and arena locations.

Ottawa is the furthest rink from the host city's downtown in the entire league. Kanata used to be a separate town before being annexed. I'm sure Ottawa itself has things to recommend it - most cities do.

Raleigh is NC State's arena on their campus - and it's the furthest point west on their campus, and their campus is west of the heart of downtown. Raleigh is a sprawl city not a tight downtown, but the downtown IS fun and has good bars, breweries, taprooms, restaurants, etc. It's not walkable from PNC, and we have crap public transport so other than buses, you're driving.

Short Hills is too far from anywhere. Why would anyone stay there for hockey? Newark downtown might be a bit dodgy in spots, although there are good areas to eat and drink by the arena and under the rail tracks in the ironbound. Jersey City downtown is hopping these days. Like you pointed out when we played in the meadowlands that was in the middle of nowhere for someone looking for a city experience.

I'd imagine your friend feels similarly about Nassau County. Far from Manhattan or even downtown Brooklyn.

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

Great Gdt! Is Meier, Mercer and Holtz really a line? Why?

The mad line scientist Lindy even if it's not broken let's fix it.....

 

[Bleedred]

I think your friend is a little off just because he's going by team hotels and arena locations.

Ottawa is the furthest rink from the host city's downtown in the entire league. Kanata used to be a separate town before being annexed. I'm sure Ottawa itself has things to recommend it - most cities do.

Raleigh is NC State's arena on their campus - and it's the furthest point west on their campus, and their campus is west of the heart of downtown. Raleigh is a sprawl city not a tight downtown, but the downtown IS fun and has good bars, breweries, taprooms, restaurants, etc. It's not walkable from PNC, and we have crap public transport so other than buses, you're driving.

Short Hills is too far from anywhere. Why would anyone stay there for hockey? Newark downtown might be a bit dodgy in spots, although there are good areas to eat and drink by the arena and under the rail tracks in the ironbound. Jersey City downtown is hopping these days. Like you pointed out when we played in the meadowlands that was in the middle of nowhere for someone looking for a city experience.

I'd imagine your friend feels similarly about Nassau County. Far from Manhattan or even downtown Brooklyn.

Yes, he is mostly rating these cities on an NHL circuit basis and not really how good of a city the places are.

 

[Bleedred]

For some reason I don’t like Huberdeau and love this player’s decline. I don’t know why I’m so sadistic when it comes to this shit bag. He isn’t even a goalie.

Probably because of how overrated he was during that Panthers presidents trophy season. He wasn’t even the best player on their team, yet he was talked about as possibly one of the best players in hockey.

He has a similar looking face to an old “Friend” of mine that was a snake and pulled some questionable, sketchy shit with me.

We’re on okay terms these days, but I’ll never trust him again after all that. And I think Huberdeau looks a bit like him or at least what he looked like when he was younger. He’s expanded quite a bit in size and his hair seemed to go away faster than John MacLean’s.

Huberdeau is still a trashpale. He’s been whining ever since he got there, yet he was the guy that willingly signed the deal to stay there.

f*** him. Shit bag.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

Vitek starting

 

[Bounces R Way]

nice gdt guys
all accurate. GL HF

 

[Bleedred]

Vitek starting

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I'm thinking about watching some Sopranos with my buddy that's over. We've been watching the whole series the last few wees, he's never seen it before.

I aim to please my guests, and he couldn't care less about hockey.

I'm not at the point where I couldn't care less for it, but with Vitek starting I'm definitely at the point where I could care a little less. Just a little.

 

[denverdevil]