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

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

A single .930+ month is incredible goaltending when league average is .900. Some of you have no idea what a 1st round pick and one cheap year of a marginal player are worth. Should Markstrom be better, absolutely, is it probably because he got hurt, yeah - he was absolutely fine up to that point. The people who are grinding axes about Markstrom are largely the people who never liked the move to begin with, but they were nowhere to be found in January.

Don't attribute opinions to the board. The same people who were shitting on Meier last year are the same people shitting on Markstrom this year.

No it doesn't when the other months are in the gutter or trash, it's the equivalent of touting an ace pitcher's with a mediocre ERA when he's had 1-2 months of good pitching and getting smoked every other month of the season. I gave Markstrom credit when he was carrying the Devils on this board and wanted him to continue but to say he hasn't been underwhelming is just categorically false. It's probably bargaining you don't have to see the days of Vitek Vanecek or Jon Gillies but there's nothing wrong with having standards with a goalie like Markstrom. Just like how people expect Meier and Bratt to be 30 goal and 80 point guys yearly except Markstrom was touted as the last piece for this team from the fans/media/managament. At the end of the day, goaltending is very fickle and changes on a quick basis but you can easily more from Markstrom and understand he hasn't been good for the totality of his year outside of his January.

Also, the last part is false because I defended Meier most of last year and literally got mocked this year for mentioning his shooting percentage prior to March and look what has happened with him this month.

 

[MadDevil]

Devils PR doing the Dano meme work for us.

 

[Satans Hockey]

Devils PR doing the Dano meme work for us.

That's the giveaway hat for tomorrow, amazing lol

 

[Better Call Sal]

Devils PR doing the Dano meme work for us.

I may need to update my avatar to Sal with the NJ hat on.

 

[NJDevs26]

That's the giveaway hat for tomorrow, amazing lol

Gosh darnit, they're giving away that hat when I had to miss this game last minute to go to a friend's birthday dinner

 

[NJDevs26]

I see it both ways. It is funny how people are quick to scream about Bratt, Meier, even Jack Hughes around here. But only a select few of us (with me at the very top) shred the goalies around here. Yeah, people criticize the goalies and most are in agreement that Markstrom has been syphilis since he returned, but I feel like other than from me, there's more harsh posts about Bratt, Meier, Jack Hughes, etc than goalies. It sure does feel like when those players aren't scoring it's because they suck or they aren't good enough right now. When a goalie isn't performing I think people go further out of their way to rationalize it. ''The defense has been bad, Lindy Ruff sucks, team was turtling, the system is bad, the guy is injured'' etc.

He was good before the injury, but he shouldn't be playing at this point. He either needs to be back on the IR or riding the bench.

The Pens game after the game Allen had against the Oilers was bad enough, but then he has to give him the Flames game (beecuz he used to play there and we need him to get going lolzzzz!) after the game Allen had against the Blue Jackets. We really don't have the luxury to be playing him at this point because he used to play for some team (like Vancouver) and because he was good before he got injured. We're past that now.

Nah there's been PLENTY of bellyaching about goalies other than 'this' year when although I'm not Markstrom's biggest fan either, he got himself some benefit of the doubt earlier in the year. And Allen was getting crap before he started playing more and upping his level.

There's also been plenty of first and second-guessing around here about the Markstrom trade, even besides the poster(s) who just come here to give themselves props for getting negative opinions right and/or **** on everyone else. The problem with ripping the Markstrom trade is what was the alternative? Allen and Daws in hindsight might have been fine, key word being might. Fitz would have been eviscerated going into the season with one guy who was a #3 in Montreal and another guy who got overwhelmed twice in two callups as his tandem and if that didn't work the team misses the playoffs and he gets fired. He couldn't leave anything to chance.

 

[Bleedred]

Nah there's been PLENTY of bellyaching about goalies other than 'this' year when although I'm not Markstrom's biggest fan either, he got himself some benefit of the doubt earlier in the year. And Allen was getting crap before he started playing more and upping his level.

I was giving Allen plenty of it for his 5 or 6 game stretch between November and January, but even that wasn’t nearly as bad as Markstrom’s month of March. He was only playing once a week and not every other game like Markstrom has.

 

[MadDevil]

Allen's month to month breakdown is such a rollercoaster it's actually kind of funny.

We're on an up month, so ride him until April at least.

 

[glenwo2]

I may need to update my avatar to Sal with the NJ hat on.

I definitely want to see Sal wear that on the air.


EDIT : oh...nevermind.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Devils PR doing the Dano meme work for us.

I may need to update my avatar to Sal with the NJ hat on.

I definitely want to see Sal wear that on the air.


EDIT : oh...nevermind.

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[My3Sons]

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I think this is peak Dano meme. I can’t see how it goes up from this. Take a bow you’ve earned it.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

I may need to update my avatar to Sal with the NJ hat on.