Devils discussion (news, notes and speculation) - part V

[JimEIV]

MacKinnon has had a 1 goal in 13 game and a 1 goal in 10 game stretch this season. Eichel has had a 3 in 23. Pastrnak has had a 3 in 20. It happens sometimes. It’s good when you can contribute in other ways.

What your doing is completely absurd.

Pastrnak has 33 goals right now Bratt has 18

MacKinnon 27 goals to right now Bratt has 18

Eichel is on par with Bratt... still has 20 to Bratt's 18..and Eichel is having one of his worst goal scoring years G/60 of his career at .9 Goals per 60...same as Bratt, but this is more par for the course for Bratt.

 

[My3Sons]

This sucks a whole lot because it’s a huge blow to his potential trade value.

We have 23.4m going to four dmen next season, everyone has to brace themselves for the possibility that Luke’s getting a bridge deal.

I don’t think they expected to move Dougie. Nemec hasn’t progressed enough and the staff must see that with Casey as well. They have enough to pay Luke about $9.5 mil assuming Gritsyuk at about $1 mil for one year and return Glass at $2.5. They will have to cheap out on the last two guys on the fourth line and they will have to live with Daws at backup. They can send down MacDemrid if needed to create a million in cap. At least that was my back of the envelope math when I looked at cap wages dot com.

 

[NjDevsRR]

What your doing is completely absurd.

Pastrnak has 33 goals right now Bratt has 18

MacKinnon 27 goals to right now Bratt has 18

Eichel is on par with Bratt... still has 20 to Bratt's 18..and Eichel is having one of his worst goal scoring years G/60 of his career at .9 Goals per 60...same as Bratt, but this is more par for the course for Bratt.

Yelling from the back again.

This would be a massive problem if Bratt wasn’t putting up top 10 scoring numbers (even top 20 to be frank). He is. His play is generating goals for NJ at a high rate.

We all should be done with this convo now. The horse is dead.

 

[My3Sons]

Yelling from the back again.

This would be a massive problem if Bratt wasn’t putting up top 10 scoring numbers. He is. His play is generating goals for NJ at a high rate.

We all should be done with this convo now. The horse is dead.

Were you surprised when NJ let Beau Bennett go to UFA?

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

I can't believe that out of all the problems with this team, we're focusing on the guy who is going to hit 90 points. And has an AAV in the 7's.

This is the kinda shit that makes this place really stink sometimes. And yes I know it's only one person making this claim. The point remains.

 

[MadDevil]

The only real critique of Bratt's play I'd have this season is I think he needs to shoot more. He's on pace for 180 SOG, which would be his lowest total in the last 4 years. For comparison he had 248 last year.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Were you surprised when NJ let Beau Bennett go to UFA?

 

[Killing Joke]

So Tom’s big get attempted for a center was Boston scraps of Charlie coyle lol.

Please fire this f***ing idiot of a gm. Younger and better more skilled centers exist and he’s chasing after a 30 something year old pile of trash when we suck at scoring.

My god is he such a stupid and shitty gm.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Nepo Fitz

 

[JimEIV]

Yelling from the back again.

This would be a massive problem if Bratt wasn’t putting up top 10 scoring numbers (even top 20 to be frank). He is. His play is generating goals for NJ at a high rate.

His and Meier"s lack of goal scoring has been a major problem for this team this season.... couple that with the fact that we didn't add the extra top 6 forward we all believe we needed and just ran with Palat makes the lack of goal scoring from Meier and Bratt much , much worse.....the top 10 scoring nonsense does absolutely nothing for us when we don't have a single winger on this team with 20 goals having played almost 80% of the season.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Maybe I'm just being extra but I kinda don't like how Fitz says this on a random podcast and now professionally via the organization.

Seems odd to announce it there, when all we got from the team was "week to week"

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

What your doing is completely absurd.

Pastrnak has 33 goals right now Bratt has 18

MacKinnon 27 goals to right now Bratt has 18

Eichel is on par with Bratt... still has 20 to Bratt's 18..and Eichel is having one of his worst goal scoring years G/60 of his career at .9 Goals per 60...same as Bratt, but this is more par for the course for Bratt.

If it’s par for the course for Bratt then you can shut up now. You’re complaining about the goal totals of a guy that typically finishes in the mid 20s. He may be lower than that this year — while breaking the franchise record for assists and possibly clear 90 points.

 

[NJDevs26]

The only real critique of Bratt's play I'd have this season is I think he needs to shoot more. He's on pace for 180 SOG, which would be his lowest total in the last 4 years. For comparison he had 248 last year.

Well he definitely needs to shoot more now without being able to defer to Jack

 

[JimEIV]

If it’s par for the course for Bratt then you can shut up now. You’re complaining about the goal totals of a guy that typically finishes in the mid 20s. He may be lower than that this year — while breaking the franchise record for assists and possibly clear 90 points.

For the record I'm complaining about Meier and Bratt together.

But you do have point this time...maybe me expecting more goal scoring from him is unreasonable since he's essentially averaged 23 goals per 82 games throughout his career.

 

[Whaddagoal]

The only real critique of Bratt's play I'd have this season is I think he needs to shoot more. He's on pace for 180 SOG, which would be his lowest total in the last 4 years. For comparison he had 248 last year.

Not only shoot more, but figure out how to improve on his shot accuracy. It's pretty atrocious right now. He hardly gets shots on the net when he gets good distance opportunity or half wall/circle shots (say PP). He used to be pretty good with his slapper and nowadays he missed the net wide like 4 out of 5 times.

He's not alone on this team with this problem, but I feel this team is notoriously bad at getting their HD chances on net. No stats to back it up, but it seems that way

 

[JimEIV]

Well he definitely needs to shoot more now without being able to defer to Jack

Both Jack and Bratt shots were down this year. .. I don't believe those two should have been on the same line ..Regardless of what any matrix say I don't believe those two games compliment each other.

 

[JimEIV]

Jack shots per 60 All situations
2023 - 12.9
2024 - 12.6
2025 - 10.6

Bratt
2023 - 8.9
2024 - 9.4
2025 - 7.1

Meier ---little change
2023 - 11 6
2024 - 10.2
2025 - 10.1

Nico
2023 - 9.9
2024 - 7.9
2025 - 7.9

 

[Whaddagoal]

Folks: it says we are on page 63, and talking about Bratt. Just wanted to let you all know.

Seems fitting.

 

[Devils Trap]

Little tidbit from the podcast Fitz did - the Center he wanted a struck out on was Charlie Coyle.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Little tidbit from the podcast Fitz did - the Center he wanted a struck out on was Charlie Coyle.

Lol this makes me feel even worse about how this deadline went

 

[JimEIV]

Charlie Coyle returned a ton for Boston...at least way more than I expected.

 

[Comparison Ford]

Charlie Coyle returned a ton for Boston...at least way more than I expected.

yeah getting middlestat along with other pieces, we wouldn’t have been able to afford that.

 

[My3Sons]

Why would anyone want Coyle when Glass was available? What’s Coyle done the last two games? Yeah that’s what I thought.

 

[MadDevil]

Little tidbit from the podcast Fitz did - the Center he wanted a struck out on was Charlie Coyle.

Glad we struck out then.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

The 45th argument about Jesper Bratt when we went through years of guys like Brunner, Ryder, Havlat is hilarious