GDT: Devils @ Hurricanes - 7:00 P.M. - MSGSN2

[OmNomNom]

That one from a game management perspective was crazy.

They just called an iffy 5 minute major where the injured player ended up not being injured. Refs should have been looking for a makeup call.

Instead the ref ignored an actual penalty that happened right in front of him. What was the ref thinking pretending he didn’t see a penalty there?

minor league ref

 

[NjDevsRR]

You know its a bad call when Sal is egregious about it

 

[Emperoreddy]

That 2nd goal against was really bad by Allen.

But he was also pretty much the only reason we had a chance to win this game to start the 3rd period.

That bullshit major and an obvious missed call on the PK probably cost us a point in the end more then anything.

But overall we didn't play a good game

 

[DerekDevils30]

So we split the season series 2-2. The Canes outscored us by 1 overall in the games. Does that factor into the tiebreaker?

 

[Bleedred]

Cmon man. I'm pretty sure you just hate any Devils goalie, always.

Well, I've trashed Markstrom this year and I think I was irrational at times with that. He gave us a GOOD month of December.

Allen hasn't given us a good game since like Thanksgiving, though he's barely played and thank god of it.

I'm sorry for trashing Markstrom a couple weeks ago. Clearly we wouldn't have won that many games if Jake the drain snake played a couple of those Markstrom games.

 

[OmNomNom]

OH that minor league ref by the way grew up near CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA

Beau Halkidis | NHL Referee | NHL Officials Association

Beau Halkidis was born in London, Ontario but grew up close to Charlotte, North Carolina where he played his minor hockey...

nhlofficials.com

i'm definitely tin foiling here, but just saying

 

[Hisch13r]

Unfortunately finish the 2 games worse than we started. Same point with the Canes but now the Caps have 4 games in hand instead of 3.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

It means they had the puck ...and contrast that with a 1998 23 shot total for us it tells the entire story.

We could get 40+ shots every night if we flung crap from the blue line at every opportunity.

 

[Emperoreddy]

You know its a bad call when Sal is egregious about it

Sal was incensed from the moment it happened and he wasn't letting it go. Dano finally relented when he saw Necas was faking his injury and joined him

 

[NJDevs26]

You know its a bad call when Sal is egregious about it

Sal wishes he could have been on the ice arguing with the refs lol

 

[Bleedred]

That 2nd goal against was really bad by Allen.

But he was also pretty much the only reason we had a chance to win this game to start the 3rd period.

That bullshit major and an obvious missed call on the PK probably cost us a point in the end more then anything.

But overall we didn't play a good game

The same thing happened in the Washington game. He was the only reason we were in that game either at the end of the 2nd or start of the 3rd. Then he pulled off a masterful heel turn with the late implosion, which happened again tonight.

 

[OmNomNom]

Sal wishes he could have been on the ice arguing with the refs lol

once a captain...

 

[devilsfan950003]

I'm glad Cotter scored tonight. That's all.

 

[Emperoreddy]

So we split the season series 2-2. The Canes outscored us by 1 overall in the games. Does that factor into the tiebreaker?

Pretty far down. We have the RW tie breaker on them which is first and the ROW tie breaker

 

[Devils731]

Sal was incensed from the moment it happened and he wasn't letting it go. Dano finally relented when he saw Necas was faking his injury and joined him

Sal was also right when he went something like, “but with the guy injured…” knowing the ref would call it based on the injury and not the actual play.

 

[glenwo2]

Sal was incensed from the moment it happened and he wasn't letting it go. Dano finally relented when he saw Necas was faking his injury and joined him

Guarantee you if Necas pulled that sh*t back in Dano's playing days, he would've gotten his head taken off at some later date....

 

[NJDevs26]

Sal was also right when he went something like, “but with the guy injured…” knowing the ref would call it based on the injury and not the actual play.

He should have said allegedly injured

 

[Hisch13r]

That 2nd goal against was really bad by Allen.

But he was also pretty much the only reason we had a chance to win this game to start the 3rd period.

That bullshit major and an obvious missed call on the PK probably cost us a point in the end more then anything.

But overall we didn't play a good game

Not scoring on the shorthanded chances and then Nico also not scoring right after the 2-2 goal plays a big role as well. You have to bury those against Dustin f***ing Tokarksi

 

[glenwo2]

I'm glad Cotter scored tonight. That's all.

Didn't like the Technical difficulties that prevented us from hearing the "WELCOME BACK, KOTTER" goal call (IF Spaulding did in fact say it), though.

 

[OmNomNom]

Unfortunately finish the 2 games worse than we started. Same point with the Canes but now the Caps have 4 games in hand instead of 3.

as long as we make playoffs i don't mind - give me anyone honestly

 

[Bleedred]

All this guy does os give up goals at the end of periods and the end of PK's God awful can we blame some of his bad play on the goalie coach?

Here's my opinion on Rogalski as of real time.

I'm not crediting him for Markstrom this year, nor am I condemning him for Allen.

Allen has a history of not being good in his NHL career. It happened when he was younger. Combine that with an aging goalie. And he's pretty old looking too. I was looking at his head shot next to Tokarski's early in the game. Can't believe Tokarski is a year older. He looks like he could have 5 years or more on Tokarski.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Even the Canes announcers knew that wasn't a major

 

[theoptimist]

haha

I like THIS admin

 

[OmNomNom]

Sal was also right when he went something like, “but with the guy injured…” knowing the ref would call it based on the injury and not the actual play.

it's 100% biased reffing

and to be fair, game management does have a time and place - like if someone took out crosby over joe schmo, there's a big difference in keeping things sheriffed. but the whole thing was very slipshod

 

[Saugus]

It’s annoying that we can’t string together more wins and get some momentum going.

I really just want to hear the phrase “9 game heater” come out of Jack’s mouth again.

Ah well, now let’s get some wins against weaker competition on the western road trip.