Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - 2022-23 season thread part I

[Devils731]

Why? It removes one year of a cheap ELC and one year of the very important RFA status.

It does not removed the year towards RFA unless he plays 40 games. That’s how many you need to accrue a year of NHL play.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Guess they found a way to hook up Nicos iron lung near the bench.

 

[I Hate Tie DOMI]

Oh, crap - what the hell is Johnsson doing on the PK unit? He should be packing for Utica.

Guessing maybe it's just for practice against the PP and the guys on PP & PK will fill those spots in the games.

Where is Zetterlund?!

 

[JimEIV]

f***ing lol at leaving Bratt off of PP1

No current forward has had more Powerplay Points (40) than Jesper Bratt since 2019...

So let's put him on PP2

 

[Captain3rdLine]

Lines?


Palat-Hughes-Holtz
Tatar-Hischier-Bratt
Sharangovich-Haula-Mercer
Wood-McLeod-Zetterlund (or Bastian?)
Scratches: Boqvist, Bastian

Siegenthaler-Hamilton
Graves-Marino
Smith-Severson
Scratches: Nemec

Blackwood
Vanacek

 

[njdevil26]

If you envision each PP as having one focused shooter, which I think would be Shara’s role, then you have Hamilton and Holtz in those roles on each unit.

So I think Shara has Hamilton ahead of him (also Shara won’t be the umbrella too) and Holtz being given a shot.

I don’t see Shara as much of a distributor or net front guy. His best shot is to get into one of the unit in the slot spot.

Yeah those are good points. Just kind of confused at this whole thing haha.
I am surprised Nemec made the team since our right side is set with Hamilton/Marino/Severson. But now he's on the PK in practice... so is he playing 3LD?

Why is Johnsson being figured in when they just waived him? He can't possibly be in the lineup right?

 

[Better Call Sal]

For what it's worth, Rango has 4 PPGs of his 40 career goals.

My guess is that Tatar and Holtz will be on short leashes there for production and Rango will take over for one of them inevitably. Tatar has been a productive PP guy in the past and Holtz is hopefully going to be the future shooter on PP1 when the time comes.

Rango gets his goals, so I'm not worried about him at all. It's not like we're running these units all season long lol.

 

[Captain3rdLine]

Yeah those are good points. Just kind of confused at this whole thing haha.
I am surprised Nemec made the team since our right side is set with Hamilton/Marino/Severson. But now he's on the PK in practice... so is he playing 3LD?

Why is Johnsson being figured in when they just waived him? He can't possibly be in the lineup right?

It’s just for practice. They’re working on the pp and the players on the pp obviously can’t kill against themselves. So they have guys not on it killing as placeholders. Everyone does that

 

[HBK27]

Yeah those are good points. Just kind of confused at this whole thing haha.
I am surprised Nemec made the team since our right side is set with Hamilton/Marino/Severson. But now he's on the PK in practice... so is he playing 3LD?

Why is Johnsson being figured in when they just waived him? He can't possibly be in the lineup right?

With Nico working on the PP, he also can't be out there on the PK at the same time so I get having someone like Johnsson take his spot on the PK in practice. It is a bit concerning that there is no mention of Zetterlund though

 

[Devils731]

Yeah those are good points. Just kind of confused at this whole thing haha.
I am surprised Nemec made the team since our right side is set with Hamilton/Marino/Severson. But now he's on the PK in practice... so is he playing 3LD?

Why is Johnsson being figured in when they just waived him? He can't possibly be in the lineup right?

One thing mentioned in the broadcast the other night is that guys like Nico, who play PP and maybe PK, never really get to practice the PK since they’re on the offensive side of practice.

So there could be some PK guys during the game that we won’t see practicing.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Anyone remember when Rolston got waived like 3 times in 2010-2011 but kept hanging around and playing? I wonder if that will be Johnsson's fate.

 

[Hisch13r]

You can't be getting sniped on by Wood

 

[SJinNewJersey]

Have I told anyone how much I love peanut butter? I mean I eat that stuff with a spoon right out of the jar. I like the all natural stuff with oils. Taste more nutty in my opinion.

And who doesn't like the taste of nuts.

 

[Patrik26]

He's on the ice. Allegedly practicing. The tweet made reference to his jersey but said nothing about a walker or motorized wheelchair so we can't be sure.

Photoshopped.

 

[SKNJD9]

Hello friends. I cant remember the last time I logged in here but @njdevil26 keeps telling me you guys are a bunch of assholes so I figured I would fit right in, seeing as how much of an asshole I am myself. Only part of that statement is true, you guys can decide for yourself which part.

Oh no.... lol

 

[SKNJD9]

Pretty cool, would be cool of Ghrame can get a call up vs LA to play against his brother.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

Rickus is back. We're truly f***ed now.

 

[JimEIV]

That makes me unusually happy

 

[Patrik26]

Regular season time. There's a line outside to get in here.

 

[JimEIV]

Regular season time. There's a line outside to get in here.

Where?

 

[njdevil26]

Rickus is back. We're truly f***ed now.

I tell him almost every day how much fun we have here... and how level headed everyone is and the conversations are always friendly and amicable... so he decided to come destroy that.

 

[Nocashstyle]

 

[My3Sons]

You can see the extreme pain on Nico’s face just doing a basic skating move. I expect he is shut down for the rest of the season and hopefully can be back for next training camp.

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Black pants with a red jersey? That is the worst photoshop I've ever seen. Clearly they don't want us to see he's actually on one of those sleds the amputees have to use to play and this is a big coverup.

On a serious note, I have nothing but respect for the real folks who can overcome loss of a limb or worse to get on the ice and play hockey. The toughness those folks show is more admirable than they get credit for. I have both my legs and at my age would be nervous to skate at all. Last time I went skiing I was so passive and conservative because all I kept thinking was that I would blow out my already partially torn ACL. Overcoming your limitations to play with joy and effort is no easy feat.

 

[Cheddabombs]

I'm sure it's just cramps we're fine

 

[Guadana]

How is Sharangovich not even on the PP?

He will score more PK goals than full second unit on PP.

Jokes aside, Yegor isn`t very good puckhandler and puck distributor and I believe this skills is what you wanna see frpm your PP guys.