Take away his flawed system/stupid coaching mistakes and I still have a problem with him for reasons like this. The guy just embraces the loser mentality and doesn't have that fight in him. We got blown out by 6 goals the other night in a horrible game and he says post game that we played good? That's not something a coach should ever say after getting blown out by 6 goals. When we played the Hurricanes the other night he was asked if he has the team fired up to get revenge on them since they're the ones who bounced us in the playoffs, what does Lindy say? Nope that's not something we care about. What?? How don't you care about it? Are you telling me when The Rangers played us for the 1st time since we bounced them that they aren't talking about showing us up? Of course they did. You should want revenge on the team who beat you. Then you see him on the bench after we get scored on & he's completely emotionless. Shows no energy, doesn't care. Just stares with his sunglasses with the same stupid expression on his face. Systems aside, horrible lineup choices aside, coaching mistakes aside. Is this the guy you want leading your locker room? Is this the guy that's rallying the team when things get hard? Is this the guy that's going to take you to the cup? The answer to all of these is no. So for that reason alone you fire the guy. Lindy makes an amazing assistant coach, and can be a great development coach but he's not a coach who is going to take you to the cup. How does Fitz not see this. It's baffling. I love Fitz & I think he's one of the best GMs in the league when it comes to a lot of aspects but he seems hell bent on making the same mistake Shero did which at the end of the day will get you canned.
Ugh
Absolutely not. Majority of this board was turned off to JG because his size and style was not what this team needed. Now we have what we need and we’re going to trade him for what we thought we didn’t need?
The injuries would be a viable excuse if the team was just getting steamrolled... but they aren't they are in EVERY game. They can't start games one time and always give up the first 1-2 goals... which was the case when healthy... so another thing I can't blame on the injuries...
We could of played Mercer at center. He was drafted as one and in his rookie year did pretty good at it. Is he green behind the eyes being he hasn't gained any center experience since being in the NHL? Of course, but now's the time to give him that center experience. There's also something we can do which is experiment with playing another top 6 player as a center to see what happens. I can't imagine it being worse than AHL guys centering the 2nd line. Ruff hasn't even tried these things. Other teams have tried it and discovered some players actually can seamlessly switch from wing to center and be good at it.
For me, Mercer has played center a bunch this season and he’s been significantly worse at center than at wing. At this point, I’m not sure Mercer is reasonable to play at center when he plays badly there but can play well at wing.
I want to keep Holtz. Toffoli is going to walk in the offseason & Holtz should be the guy who slots in. We also need top line wingers who will come cheap. I would rather move on from someone else. Holtz is going to go there and turn into an instant 40 goal scorer I guarantee you that.
I agree he's worse but when there's no one else just try it. Like I said there's other players we can experiment with also. I know it's a unusual circumstance but when you have AHL players on the 2nd line that takes for some drastic experiments. Try Meier at center for a game or 2. Can he be worse than a AHL scrub? I doubt it. Nothing is temporary. If they suck then switch the duties to someone else. Try Palat etc. Drastic times calls for drastic measures. When you're getting blown out every game & are about to fall out the playoff race you have no reason not to experiment.
I'd like to keep Holtz as well. I wouldn't put much stock into Fischler anyways, but there seems to be some kind of smoke with Calgary, Could just be from the Toffoli trade/natural trading partners. We'll see.
Devils can’t trade their 2024 first anyway since it’s locked up in the trade with SJ; so I take that rumor of a bad deal with. Big grain of salt.
That'd be a terrible trade for the Devils. If we're trading with Calgary I'd be much more interested in Hanifin or Coleman.
