Someone please take @JimEIV fishing and bring lots of beer.
Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - camp edition
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make sure you bring enough for everyone
JimEIV
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It's bow season right now. Drinking and climbing trees in the dark don't really go together. But there's always the after party.
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I did make a Dano meme out of this to respond with.
But it is too disturbing to post…
Nico already looks constipated. We are so f***ing back.
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But is he out of breath?
Nico already looks constipated. We are so f***ing back.
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This is on systems/coaching. Need to have a more solid plan B team game to keep afloat when injuries happen. I’m optimistic that Keefe is an upgrade there.
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Pumped for a full season of constipated Dougie.
The Douglasaurus is going to feast this season.
Pumped for a full season of constipated Dougie.
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Just do the two years Fitz...give Mercer the same contract Bratt got... You don't have the space for the third year so just stop it.
Their production per game is almost identical - Bratt signed his first deal for 2 years - $2,750,000 3 years ago. That easily equates to 2 years - 3.5 today. Just do it...
I'm sure whoever the capologist is, they are insisting on that 3rd year but they're not willing to pay extra for it. They don't have the space for AAV to be over 4M and go into the season with any sort of cushion.
Two years throws a monkey wrench into their projections...with Noesen and Palat still on the books, Nemec needing a contract and a Nico extension up coming ... can't have Dawson coming off two years with arbitration rights... A 3rd year gets Noesen and Palat off the books and frees up 9+ million...too bad, not Dawson's problem. Just do the two years and end this.
Their production per game is almost identical - Bratt signed his first deal for 2 years - $2,750,000 3 years ago. That easily equates to 2 years - 3.5 today. Just do it...
I'm sure whoever the capologist is, they are insisting on that 3rd year but they're not willing to pay extra for it. They don't have the space for AAV to be over 4M and go into the season with any sort of cushion.
Two years throws a monkey wrench into their projections...with Noesen and Palat still on the books, Nemec needing a contract and a Nico extension up coming ... can't have Dawson coming off two years with arbitration rights... A 3rd year gets Noesen and Palat off the books and frees up 9+ million...too bad, not Dawson's problem. Just do the two years and end this.
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JimEIV
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Mercer's points/60 in his contract year was a touch more than HALF of what Bratt put up in his contract year
Harley just outscored Mercer by 14 points as a DEFENSEMAN who didn't even play on PP1.
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Mercer is really going to set this board alight with his stalemate! Haha. I can sense we are about to enter another wave.
I don't know if I can survive reading another lengthy multi page debate about mercer.
Just sign a contract dude, you didn't kill it last season and you don't have much leverage!
I don't know if I can survive reading another lengthy multi page debate about mercer.
Just sign a contract dude, you didn't kill it last season and you don't have much leverage!
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You got some faulty numbers there...or you don't know the contract years in question?
Bratts last year of his ELC he did 2.3 P/60
Dawson did 1.4 P/60
Their 3 years combined average Bratt did 1.9, 2.6, 2.3 = 2.26
Dawson 3 years combined average
1.9, 2.5, 1.4 = 1.93
It's kind of funny though.. the fact that he gets dinged by "rate" matrixs for playing every game and not getting injured....as well as a lot of those 5v5 minutes come following PK work...and never being scratched like Bratt and yet after a down year his P/60 is still very close
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1.4 vs 2.3 is not even close.
1.93 vs 2.26 is also not all that close.
Shitting the bed colossally in a contract year MATTERS.
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The debate was over ages ago - Mercer was bad with Nico, and he was bad with Jack. Both guys were significantly worse with him, and it wasn't just explained by the fact that Bratt would usually be the guy who would play RW with them when Mercer wasn't.
The Devils cannot commit long-term to a player who has bad results with both of their top 2 centers. I feel confident Mercer can overcome this, he has great small area skills and enough speed and smarts to become a solid forward.
lol
The Devils cannot commit long-term to a player who has bad results with both of their top 2 centers. I feel confident Mercer can overcome this, he has great small area skills and enough speed and smarts to become a solid forward.
lol
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With this teams history who knows what injuries they will ask him to play through before realizing he actually needs to recover or get surgery...
