Devils discussion (news, notes and speculation) - playoff edition

[dgibb10]

No. I think it's playing better without Dillon. He's really not good.

Luke has his warts but he has the speed to make up for his mistakes or his partner's mistakes. He also brings a ton of offense.

Dillon provides....what exactly? While also being really not great at D.

Dillon is a very good PK guy

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

Ya, I wonder if they go back to Mercer there.

I’m sure the thought was Hamilton big shot, get the best net front guy in there but Noesen hasn’t been able to support puck possession so far and Carolina is preventing the hard shots from the outside anyway.

yea idk, but Noesen was quite bad today. Directly passed it to other team like 4 times

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

Dillon is a very good PK guy

This is what everyone said about Graves. Took till getting him off the team for all of you to admit he wasn't good.

Obviously, Dillon > Cholowski or however you spell the guys name

but if all 3 of Luke, Dillon, and Kovacevic are available, Dillon is the guy out for me

 

[dgibb10]

Dumoulin almost definitely won’t cost $4.5 million per. He’s only making I think $3.1 or something on his current deal and he’s gonna be 34. So he probably won’t get a raise at all. And if he does it likely won’t be by that much.

I’d like to keep him, but there’s no room with Dillon still here.

And we really shouldn’t have both. We already have enough defensemen who struggle to break 20 points annually.

But I’d definitely like him more than Dillon.

You don't think him and Dillon have similar resume's?

Dillon got 4x3.

With the cap up now I don't think he comes in particularly cheap unless you give him term. On a 2 year deal I think the AAV is higher than you'd think

 

[dgibb10]

This is what everyone said about Graves. Took till getting him off the team for all of you to admit he wasn't good.

Obviously, Dillon > Cholowski or however you spell the guys name

but if all 3 of Luke, Dillon, and Kovacevic are available, Dillon is the guy out for me

I don't think anyone out here is denying that. I think Dillon has been widely regarded as the number 6 dman all year, and we have since added Dumo, and Nemec looks great again.

I think you go 11-7 with whatever 7 are healthy from Luke-Nemec-Dougie-Siegs-Pesce-Dumo-Kovy-Dillon, with dillon being the odd man out if EVERYONE is healthy

 

[dgibb10]

He doesn't have to bring offense. He just needs to get the puck up ice efficiently to his team mates in transition which I don't think he's capable of. Bahl is probably much better at it, it's a shame that he never used his size. Silayev reminds a bit of Volchenkov (minus the skating), a super solid punishing defenseman but esssially a grenade handler, todays game is much different. If he never had the element to his game regarding his hands, he never will.

Kevin Bahl couldn't make a breakout pass to save his life.

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

I don't think anyone out here is denying that. I think Dillon has been widely regarded as the number 6 dman all year, and we have since added Dumo, and Nemec looks great again.

I think you go 11-7 with whatever 7 are healthy from Luke-Nemec-Dougie-Siegs-Pesce-Dumo-Kovy-Dillon, with dillon being the odd man out if EVERYONE is healthy

Right now, it's looking like we just need Luke back and we'd be fine. What are the injuries for these guys anyways.