To me all them breakaways = no defenseThey SHOULD
Would I bet a whole ton on it? We've lost A LOT of games that we were favored to win in the last 5 weeks (I haven't bet on any, by the way) so I wouldn't really feel too comfortable to tossing anything of real value into the one armed bandit.
The schedule gets much tougher after the break, as in we don't have a 3 week stretch where we're playing nothing but the Flyers, Sabres, Canadiens, Pens, with a few playoff teams sprinkled in. That might actually favor us with how we show up to play these types of teams.
All we've been doing is playing defense.
Allowing chance after chance after chance after chance. A 2 minute PK that didn't even leave our end.
Another quick one please.
Yes if Cotter scores 2 more .... lolWe have a chance!
Because he is like the Devils, at his best when it's over.Why wait till the second intermission to hook Allen? Makes little sense if you’re going to pull him in a three goal game to wait an extra twenty minutes till it’s nearly gone
He traded away 2 of the 2020 first round picks, possibly all 3 if Mercer goes. Holtz was a horrible pick. SM was a reach. Mercer is meh. Last years draft, Silayev is not a good pick considering what we left on the table that bring what we lack on the back end, offense and puck moving and speed, Nemec was also the wrong pick considering we could use another skilled forward and center, like a Cooley.Fitz has done a great job with contracts.
He has done a fine job not totally f***ing up most high draft picks (most.)
He has been horrific at building organizational depth at forward. He held onto Lindy too long. He waited way too long last year to address goaltending. He’s waiting way too long this year to address the complete dearth of NHL caliber forwards. He got a poor return for Toffoli last year.
His biggest deadline acquisition has spent 2.5 seasons of hockey in a Devils sweater acting like teenagers at bible camp: playing “get it so close but don’t put it in!”.
I have lost all confidence in his ability to build a stanley cup contending hockey team. The devils have been relatively LUCKY with health and just look at what these lines look like. They should embarrass anyone who actually believed this team had Cup aspirations.
The hamilton contract is awful. The palat contract is awful. The Dillon AND pesce contracts are redundant, and certainly some of that money should have been allocated to addressing the worst bottom-6 forward group in the national hockey league.
The Devils deserve better than Tom Fitzgerald.