ThePrideofStockholm
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I really hope that we are done drafting players from Djurgården, Josefsson, Urbom and Holtz, I cant take another of my guys failing from my home town team
Palat with consistent top-6 time and a healthy lineup could also maybe hit 60
It’s a term that people get to define for themselves in different ways and rarely is the definition discussed and agreed upon before the conclusions are thrown around.Dillon was on with Dimitri Filipovich on the PDOCast today. When he started talking about the Devils talent the first guy he mentioned was Bratt and how Bratt dashes him up every time he plays him. Then he mentioned Jack and having the puck on a string all the time. NOT HARD TO PLAY AGAINST!!!!!!
that’s nothing if not a list of the best players this franchise has proudly put on display these past 8 seasons.PIM leaders by year
2024 Bahl 82 (21 more than Smith in second)
2023 Miles Wood 76
2022 PK Subban 82
2021 McLeod 42 *56 game season
2020 PK Subban 79
2019 Miles Wood 91
2018 Miles Wood 84
2017 Miles Wood 86
2016 Jordan Tootoo 102 and Bobby Farnham had 92
Those guys may scored goals and were hard to stop but how many bruises did Dillon take? (Blocking shot bruises don’t count)Dillon was on with Dimitri Filipovich on the PDOCast today. When he started talking about the Devils talent the first guy he mentioned was Bratt and how Bratt dashes him up every time he plays him. Then he mentioned Jack and having the puck on a string all the time. NOT HARD TO PLAY AGAINST!!!!!!
Being hard to play against and being tough aren’t mutually exclusive
Marian Hossa was hard to play against but wasn’t really tough
Yet we spent 4 million dollars a year for 3 years on a 34 year old defender to replace exactly that element .. . Interesting.that’s nothing if not a list of the best players this franchise has proudly put on display these past 8 seasons.
look at those beauties. give me a team of those guys. throw 3 miles woods on a line and we are f***in’ cooking. 2022 PK Subban is an all-timer of a hockey player.
Yet we spent 4 million dollars a year for 3 years on a 34 year old defender to replace exactly that element .. . Interesting.
Dillon did have 92 PIMs last year.
On this board Jack Bratt hard to play against like a really physical tennis match ... Serena better look out Jack and Bratt are coming.
Hard to play against
And the response is phenomenal!
I love this twisting yourselves into pretzels to redefine "Hard to play against" when Fitz has clearly articulated what means over and over for the last 3 years...at least.
And he doesn't mean puck possession.
We're a soft team. We have been for a long time. To deny that is just silly... it's almost Orwellian...and if you made a list of the softest players descending, Jack and Bratt would be at the top. Nico wouldn't be too far behind. Well, we Tatar again so maybe we might have to rearrange the marshmallow depth chart.
I just want to say. I think we as fans were a lot closer to getting March than we realized.
As I’ve always said Sidney Crosby is not hard to play against.
I know the point you are trying to make, but in the sense that is being talked about ("hard to play against") that people keep pretending not to know what it means out of fear someone is actually saying the team sucks, Crosby in his early years was not. After one of his longer times out, he definitely came back with a lot more bite in his game and became much harder to play against, again in the sense it's actually being talked about.
If you aren't just pretending, an easy example to understand is Brad Marchand is harder to play against than Jack Hughes. Jack Hughes is way better at hockey and you would rather Brad Marchand coming at you with the puck on his stick than Jack Hughes 10/10 as a defender.
Another example is using "hard" and "difficult" to mean slightly different things. Moving 20 50lb bags of concrete from one side of a yard to the other is hard, not difficult for anyone that is able to physically lift that much. Mixing, pouring, setting and finishing that concrete is difficult and with out years of practice, you probably won't be able to do it.
Brad Marchand is hard to play against, most decent players can do it, but it takes a lot of you and is exhausting. Jack Hughes is difficult to play against, even the best players will have a hard time knowing what's coming next, directing him where they need him to go to be less of a threat and even just not looking foolish in general.
Mixing the two? Being exhausted dealing with Brad and then having to play the mental game of playing against Jack? I don't think I have to explain any further.
And I picked Brad at random and also bonus because he is small. Don't want Brad and the person who is "hard to play against" isn't just someone big. You(general people) can say Brad Marchand is really good or really sucks to discredit everything I just said, but the point still stands.
No one is acting like that. People pretending not to understand what is being said when someone says "hard to play against" are pushing the conversation there.No one is saying compete level doesn't matter. I’ve personally brought up Evan Rodrigues multiple times. It’s the acting like “hard to play against” is simply guys who big and out there throwing the body all the time and racking up the PIMs or acting like Jack isn’t “hard to play” against as if he doesn’t compete hard and didn’t play great in the playoffs.
I think hard to play against and soft are two different things. And frankly yeah, I think we have been soft.