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Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season Part II - The holidays are upon us

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Severson’s fifth NHL coach is trying to fix the brain farts. Good luck with that Dean!
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Damon Severson was under pressure deep in the Columbus Blue Jackets’ defensive zone, the puck on the backhand side of his stick and his back to the blue line as Boston Bruins star David Pastrnak closed quickly.

In the NHL, players have about a half-second, if they’re lucky, to make a play. Severson could have held onto the puck and waited for support to arrive. Or he could have relied on the age-old adage: “When in doubt, glass and out.”

But that’s not what he did.

Severson tried to make a backhand pass to Blue Jackets center Adam Fantilli, who was wide open a few feet away and had a clear path out of the zone. Instead, Severson’s pass was out of reach for Fantilli and right in stride for Bruins forward Morgan Geekie, who scored a pivotal 2-0 goal.

“I see Fantilli is wide open and I make a play,” Severson said. “It’s almost like it happens in slow motion. You want it to go on (Fantilli’s) stick, obviously, and it goes by his stick and you’re like ‘Oh, no.’

“You’re praying it’s not the worst-case scenario, which is what happened, unfortunately.”

This wouldn’t be a story if that were Severson’s only flub in recent weeks. But his inconsistent play, and his propensity for coughing up pucks at the worst times and in the worst locations, has clearly drawn the ire of coach Dean Evason and his staff.

“Any puck that ends up in the (defensive-zone) slot, right down Broadway … it’s not good, regardless of how it happened,” Evason said.

If former Blue Jackets forward Patrik Laine hadn’t assailed his former teammates and organization when the Montreal Canadiens were in Columbus on Dec. 23, the fact that the veteran Severson was made a healthy scratch would have been a bigger story. It was a particularly bold move because the Jackets dressed seven defensemen in that game.

On Saturday, in the 4-0 loss to Boston, he was benched for the rest of the second period after the turnover that led to Geekie’s goal.
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To his credit, Severson, 30, sat at his stall in the Blue Jackets dressing room after Monday’s practice in Nationwide Arena and took full ownership of Saturday’s gaffe and his recent struggles.

“I’m putting it on my shoulders,” Severson said. “I’m not looking to blame anybody else. It’s little things. You watch me play my entire game, it’s not like I’m bad. I’ve made two plays in the last three or four games, a couple of plays where … I just have to be simpler on the defensive side of the puck and not force things.
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The veteran coach didn’t want to make Severson a healthy scratch, and he didn’t want to bench him during Saturday’s game. (Severson returned for the third period,) And he concurred with Severson that it’s not his overall play that’s an issue, just one or two decisions a game that are unnecessarily risky.

“We’re trying to find a way to get those (turnovers) out of his game,” Evason said. “I’ll tell you this: For the majority of the game, it’s really good. It’s just we have to eliminate those major mistakes that end up in our net.

“When I say that, everybody makes mistakes. That’s what this game is about, right? But if they continue to happen, then we have to make, in some way, the player accountable. And Sevvy understands that. He’s a pro. He gets it. Did he like being sat out? No, of course not. But we’re on the same page, and we’re moving forward in a positive manner.”
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This loss was far from a good process, bad results game. It was a combination of all the Rangers’ woes in this stretch. They were flat, mustering only 12 shots against one of their biggest rivals. The lopsided score was an accurate reflection of the game.

The New Jersey Devils took every chance to rub it in. They took multiple shots at the Rangers on social media and played a video on the scoreboard of Rangers fans cheering when the Devils selected Hughes No. 1 overall, which gave New York the chance to select Kaapo Kakko. The Rangers had moved on from Kakko four days earlier. Hughes, meanwhile, had two goals and an assist in the Devils win.

On top of all that, this was Chris Kreider’s first game as a healthy scratch since John Tortorella was head coach, and the Rangers committed two bench minors for having too many men on the ice, a sign of poor team discipline.
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This was Trouba’s final game for the Rangers, who got destroyed by the rival Devils on home ice. New Jersey scored four times on Shesterkin in the first 32:38. The Rangers felt they finished the game OK, but it was too little too late after a brutal first two periods.
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The Devils during the Rags’ endless slide:




 
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apparently the winter classic is today? thats news to me but i'm not usually one up to date on these things but reading twitter and majority of people are surprised and shocked it is today also. which reinforces my belief that regardless of whatever hockey tries to do it will never become mainstream so skip the olympics i say and eliminate out of conference games thats my end of year rant
 

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apparently the winter classic is today? thats news to me but i'm not usually one up to date on these things but reading twitter and majority of people are surprised and shocked it is today also. which reinforces my belief that regardless of whatever hockey tries to do it will never become mainstream so skip the olympics i say and eliminate out of conference games thats my end of year rant
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Probably doesn't help that it's been labeled as the "2025 Winter Classic" and it's being played in 2024.
 
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Probably doesn't help that it's been labeled as the "2025 Winter Classic" and it's being played in 2024.
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Maybe they’re trying to make it like the opposite of the Super Bowl?:sarcasm:

I have no idea why it’s on the 31st this year and not the 1st. I think that’s the first time they’ve done this?
 
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Bleedred said:
Maybe they’re trying to make it like the opposite of the Super Bowl?:sarcasm:

I have no idea why it’s on the 31st this year and not the 1st. I think that’s the first time they’ve done this?
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has to be to try and avoid the college playoffs tomorrow. probably why its going off at 5 to avoid penn state too?
 
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has to be to try and avoid the college playoffs tomorrow. probably why its going off at 5 to avoid penn state too?
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It is exactly why. The game started out as counter programming for NBC vs the meaning less afternoon New Years Bowls. It has changed networks. Ok and the CFP is all day on New Years.

Should note starting the season after next TNT gets one of the Quarterfinal playoff games (presumably the NYE game). So they will probably do a Winter Classic as the lead in.
 

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Lindgren is the strangest player - he hasn't missed many games due to injury but I swear he goes back to the locker room for repairs every other game I watch the Rangers. He always seems like he is playing hurt. I can't imagine he's in the league in 5 years.
 
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Nubmer6 said:
It's news like this that make me thankful that it's a weak draft coming up.
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I seem to remember a recent year that was originally considered to be a “weak draft” has turned out to be pretty damn good. Forgot which one. Regardless, you can never tell how good a draft is until a couple years out.

More importantly, thank God the Rangers haven’t developed a proper offensive talent in decades.
 
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