Post-Game Talk: Devil VII

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duhmetreE

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We all hated Panarin's post season in 2022..... There was only one way to go.... up... nope...

In 2023, he said, 'Hold my Bud Light.'

Fox skating around like he shit his pants. Worst game as a New York Ranger. That shit also leaked into his brain.

Embarrassing in every aspect.

Zibs is a soy boy. Loser mentality imo. He has an over rated one timer that we spend so much time force feeding. No where near good enough. Cut your hair. Opening faceoff is a 2 on 1 and he flubs it.... that was the omen.

Trouba did nothing all series... $8M for a big hit on Meier?


To top it all off. We have turn of the century system.... No one knows what to do or what the other player is doing.

We've always been about our PP and Shesterkin. That's our identity. And when our soft 'stars' shit the bed, which happens often, we lose. We do not win without the PP, it fuels everything. You can't be this bad 5v5 and win.... maaaaybe it's possible with Edmontons PP though. Too bad we do not have McDavid.


Genuinely feel bad for Shesterkin. Only one worth anything.
 

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What do we do?

Devils will be better next year.

We have zero flexibility.

Will Chris be sending a letter?

I hear shit like this all the time about a bunch of teams but theres no way we can possibly know that.

Guys get hurt, regress, etc.

Winnipeg looked primed to be a perennial power house in 2018 and haven't made it beyond the first round since.

Moving Panarin should be plan A-Z this summer. If they can Gallant, bring in someone who wants to play a strict defensive style and allocate Panarin's dollars to good players who can also play the walls.

And get over the allergy to PMD's. It's ridiculous.
 

NoQuitInNewMexico

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Gordie Clark giving us Laf and Kakko on the way out is the ultimate f*** you. God damn you Gordie you incompetent prick
Everyone was going to draft those guys. There's a story there, but who knows. Especially with Lafreniere, I've seen so little from him in so many games that I don't think he would be lighting it up in Calgary or the Islanders or whatever the generic NHL organization is
 

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Just wanna say, I love you guys, and well that’s that. feel like crap now. We’ll get them next year but we need to make changes. Too much to get into now.
The thought creeped into my head recently "this is dumb, you should just root for the Devils and enjoy hockey."

And then I thought about HF and I said "no, I do enjoy hockey."

I wish the hockey was better, but this board gives me strength.
 

Bjornar Moxnes

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Better team won. Nothing else can be said about this series. An organization that understands the assignment versus an organization that doesn't.

Like, they tried. I really do believe that. They had no business going 7. This is just how bad they are.

You look at the failure of all the high picks. The way they play overall just isn't right. Panarin was not this bad until he got here. People say "oh we develop defense tho." Do we? I see a talented kid in Miller and a high pick in Schneider both becoming clueless board-chippers. Even Trouba used to have a decent first pass.

There's a massive stank in this organization, particularly in regard to skill and speed.

We've changed coaches. We've gone through a few cores now where the talent either just isn't there or it's there on paper but they play weird.

The smell is coming from upstairs.

Since Sather joined the organization 23 years ago, this team has been legitimately good at playing real (mostly 5v5) hockey three times - 2008, 2014, and 2015. The other 20 years have ranged from bad to "this literally isn't hockey."

They even tried to do a rebuild and it led them to the same type of team because the same people ran it.

The legitimately good players feel like accidents. They don't value skilled, fast players or develop those skills within their players. The ones that they acquire see huge portions of their game fall apart. The organization's understanding of NHL offense is broken. No move or set of moves will move the needle until the culture changes.

The Devils sucked for a long time and they changed things. We haven't meaningfully changed things in a long time.

NOTE: Please remember that the list of Machinehead is active in the summer.

They need to sign Girardi to a 8 year $104mill contract.
 
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BroadwayStorm

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Gallant is a shitty coach. He is a dinosaur. Too much of a players coach. And this team right now needs some structure. It's too wild, there is no plan. Everyone freelances and turns the puck over, especially Panarin. There is no system for the kids to develop in. I hate it. I want Mike Sullivan or someone with an offensive background but more of a system. We need to put more pucks on net too. Or give an up and coming guy a shot. Not some college coach but a good young assistant with experience who knows modern hockey. Maybe something like that will get more out of the players.
 
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