Are the NJ Devils already collapsing?
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Empoleon8771
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I don't see it that way, it has everything you want. It has puck moving talent on RD with size on LD to complement those guys. Siegenthaler-Hamilton and Graves-Marino is a great setup for their top-4.
Gurglesons
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Sieg - Hamilton is nice. Graves - Marino is a 2010 style defensive pairing that doesn’t drive offense.
Seems like the second coming of Lidstrom is really down to earth
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Far from there yet imo. Devils are a good young team (youngest in the league) who are hitting a bad streak here who seems to be becoming mental. In their losses though, they’re not getting caved and walked on, which couldn’t be said in previous years. They’re actually playing good in most of their L’s. This to me is a good sign. They’re basically shooting 5%~ish in their last 6 games and getting around .800% goaltending, which won’t last forever. Hopefully they get out of it. Getting Palat and Bastian back to roll out 4 lines effectively again and add some weight will help a lot. Would also be nice if the goaltending didn’t revert back to last year’s.
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In other news, the North Pole was a little cold to start the season.
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Not as bad as I imagined.
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I could maybe see their top 6 being a little one dimensional and could see the benefit of adding a power forward type next to Hughes. But their 4th line is a very typical physical energy lone.
yeah we were a rusty out of the gate. kind of understandable considering the 8 year lay off. but promise, when we make the playoffs we improve and be big arrogant.
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I’m starting to like a Meier trade more and more. Or any trade to help with the scoring. We have the pieces to make a big move.
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Everyone wants a Meier trade...until you realize what the cost would be, in both trade assets and cap hit.
Jerzey Devil
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Doesn’t have to be him but like I said we have the assets to make a big trade.
Vanecek came back to earth and they sent schmid down despite how well he played to bring back blackwood from injury. They need to just waive blackwood and bring schmid back up. Blackwood been bad for a few years
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I agree, I think they'll get over it.
Despite being unable to score and getting poor goaltending, they're still not getting blown out of games. Every loss was pretty competitive, and some, like the Rangers loss, the Devils still controlled play. Every game was close (ignoring EN goals against for obvious reasons).
If anyone besides Jack can start scoring, they'll come out of it.
absolutely. vanecevich can't stop a beach ball, dougie hamilton's hitting up the museums. and not even the major ones, ya seen him up at the cloisters, and over at the museum of the moving image...he just will not stop going to museums. his teammates are like bro come out with us and he's like no i want to check out the edward hopper exhibit at the whitney
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My take as well. The team itself is fun and easy to cheer for. But this maybe 7 game losing streak is karma for their fans to start the year
Why are the Devils 21-4-1? insane easy schedule, makes perfect sense.
Now adding this to the mix
Injuries will add up, swagger will diminish, players not overachieving anymore
Be prepared for a rough stretch.
Why are the Devils 21-4-1? insane easy schedule, makes perfect sense.
Now adding this to the mix
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That was three weeks ago when i posted this.
Here's a funny nugget of entertainment from @WhiskeyYerTheDevils
Why are the Devils 21-4-1? insane easy schedule, makes perfect sense.
I haven’t heard of half the guys on their team and I watch a ton of hockey and all of them are contributing It's the ultimate team game. Basically how the Habs got to finals and yeah, Canadian division helped. But thinking it was only Price is foolish. Danault, that big/mobile top 4D...
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