GDT: Blackhawks @ Devils - Die Hard Edition - 1:00 PM-MSG-NHLN

[Lou is God]

We need the captain to step up big this final period.

 

[devilsfan950003]

I’m worried - we drop too many games against teams we should beat. Realistically every team will do that but we seem to be doing it a lot.

Maybe the third period will surprise us. However, neither team looks like a playoff team out there.

 

[jkrdevil]

No, why? Every time has dry spells and rough patches.

I'm getting more worried about depth scoring and how other teams are playing us 5v5 when even and our ability to break that. But they aren't long term worries. Would like to see someone from the bottom 6 score a f***ing goal.

 

[Hisch13r]

We objectively have one of the better offenses in the league, even w an ice cold offense right now and an ice cold Timo and too many shutouts all year

There’s room for improvement, but most teams outside of Edmonton would trade our offense for theirs

Yes because the PP has been out of this world. We're 19th in 5v5 GF/60. That's not good enough.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I'm getting more worried about depth scoring and how other teams are playing us 5v5 when even and our ability to break that. But they aren't long term worries. Would like to see someone from the bottom 6 score a f***ing goal.

We definitely need another top 9 forward that we can plug up or down the lineup.

That and Lazar coming back should in theory help open things up

 

[Hisch13r]

We need the captain to step up big this final period.

5 long pointless games for him.

 

[Bleedred]

He just got hurt again in his next game in the first period.

That's why I brought him up out of nowhere. They're talking about it on the NHLN intermission.

 

[MasterofGrond]

Yes because the PP has been out of this world. We're 19th in 5v5 GF/60. That's not good enough.

what’s our xgf% at 5on5

 

[HoliksGhost]

The Rangers intermission report was more entertaining than this game. Did I mention early afternoon games suck ?

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

Fitz is too much of a gent to make a trade before the holidays but in January, all bets are off. A C/W FO and 40-50pt prowess would be nice and the push down should help the 4th line.

 

[Dylan9z9]

I think we need to hire Bill Belichick

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

what’s our xgf% at 5on5

we're 3rd in the league behind Carolina and LA

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

I think we need to hire Bill Belichick

“NHL and the NFL have a lot of similarities”

 

[Devs3cups]

Yes because the PP has been out of this world. We're 19th in 5v5 GF/60. That's not good enough.

19th is definitely not good enough. 2nd in xGF 5v5 and 5th in xGF/60 5v5 is encouraging though. Shows me a team that's playing poorly, you just hope it starts going in again.

 

[Hisch13r]

What is that post #? 4 or is it 5?

 

[jkrdevil]

Fitz is too much of a gent to make a trade before the holidays but in January, all bets are off. A C/W FO and 40-50pt prowess would be nice and the push down should help the 4th line.

They essentially have a playoff spot locket up and are right there with the Caps and Canes. There is no need to make a move until the deadline for Cap and price reasons.

 

[Incharge1976]

Not when talking about my original point which is concerns about not winning games.

With regard to points percentage we are at .64, but being satisfied with that whole ignoring WINS is that you more or less have to have a 23% OTL contribution to your losses the rest of the way to maintain the gap. I’m not willing to make that assumption.

TLDR: we have to WIN more games.

We definitely want more wins but P% is more important.

41-0-41 is a 50% win %

It's also 123 points and a 75% P%

Devils have the 4th best wins per game in regulation. Other teams are getting to overtime more.

The problem we have is line depth and I hope Fitz is on the phone.

 

[njdevils1982]

f*** off with this shit!

 

[Bleedred]

We really haven't played well today, we just haven't.

Yeah, we haven't given up many shots. This isn't Toronto or LA.

 

[Hisch13r]

19th is definitely not good enough. 2nd in xGF 5v5 and 5th in xGF/60 5v5 is encouraging though. Shows me a team that's playing poorly, you just hope it starts going in again.

I said recently that I do expect them to not stay down at 19 because of how much they're creating but I also just wouldn't be surprised if we're a team that doesn't score up to expected.

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

They essentially have a playoff spot locket up and are right there with the Caps and Canes. There is no need to make a move until the deadline for Cap and price reasons.

True, but I’m going by the Fitz hates TDL deals, but I get the cap ramifications.

 

[Brooklyndevil]

Smells like another shutout coming.

 

[MasterofGrond]

we're 3rd in the league behind Carolina and LA

Yeah exactly.

If we scored 1 goal a game and gave up zero we’d be dead last in GF/anything but we’d never lose.

 

[JK3]

I don’t know why they keep going so wide, nothing up the middle. That third line just meets to throw it in front of and drive to the net.

 

[Hisch13r]

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