Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - camp edition
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So, he’s dead?
He picked a bad song to play during practice so he's being punished.
JimEIV
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He's been here for 120 games and has multiple long stretches with no goals and no impact.
His first year here was injured and only played 49 games...in those 49 games he had a 10 and 18 game stretches of no goals..On a team that had goals coming out of the ears....ok scratched it up to injuries. He missed nearly 3 months cut him a break..seems reasonable.
The following year he starts the season with 15 game goalless streak...So now we're 64 games into his Devil career, with a 10 game, an 18 game and a 15 game goalless streaks...and it only gets worse over the next 56 games he's played...
if you look at the end of the 2022-23 season from 3/9/23 into the beginning of the 2023-24 season through 11/16/2023 Palat went 33 consecutive games without a goal. to that point he only played 64 games here. That's some Cory Schneider level shit.
The problem so often with any matrix is the assumption that the a good or decent number achieved in a limited role equates to someone in a larger more difficult role. The assumption is if Palat got the same opportunity as say Hischier he would've scored about 20 5v5 goals based GF/60 (or any rate stat)... it's nonsense but that is the implication of the numbers and anyone with eyesight could see that would never be true for a multitude of reasons... Foremost, if a scrub like Palat was getting the same opportunity as a Hischier your team would be in deep shit and those numbers would revert rather quickly.
I don't know, I think my reasoning is a helluva lot more "logical" than blindly believing some dumb matrix or "player card" is actually telling you anything substantive about a guy who goes months without a goal regularly since he's been a Devil?
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Whaddagoal
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I didn't get to watch the game much yesterday, can anyone explain what happened to hatakka?
I was hoping he would stay healthy... A lot of opportunity for him so far the way this season started.
I was hoping he would stay healthy... A lot of opportunity for him so far the way this season started.
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I didn't notice. It certainly wasn't a physical game. I don't remember him really getting hit or anything.
My guess is whatever Haula had might be making it's way around the locker room.
