he sure is, but people seem REALLY down on him after last season. Recency bias, I suppose.ehhh. He said Markstrom might be the best goalie in the division, second to only Shesterkin? Sorokin is better too.
he sure is, but people seem REALLY down on him after last season. Recency bias, I suppose.ehhh. He said Markstrom might be the best goalie in the division, second to only Shesterkin? Sorokin is better too.
Sorokin lost his job last season, he’ll certainly get the chance to bounce back this year with his contract and I think he will but yeah can’t exactly put him in a top five atm
Pretty good take on us from one of our rivals writers:
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Penguins vs. the Changing Metro: Uh Oh, the Devils are Back
The Metropolitan Division has long been the best or at least produced some of the best teams in the NHL. However, the salary cap and age are catching up with the lions of the Eastern Conference, and change is coming, and it might be coming in the form of the New Jersey Devils. As president […]pittsburghhockeynow.com
fading prospect Alexander Holtz
I did get a chuckle out of this observation:Pretty good take on us from one of our rivals writers:
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Penguins vs. the Changing Metro: Uh Oh, the Devils are Back
The Metropolitan Division has long been the best or at least produced some of the best teams in the NHL. However, the salary cap and age are catching up with the lions of the Eastern Conference, and change is coming, and it might be coming in the form of the New Jersey Devils. As president […]pittsburghhockeynow.com
I'm moving very soon from the UK to Boston to join my wife (we've been doing almost 7 years of long distance). Looking forward to be able to go to a Devils game in person for the first time! Won't be my first time in Bruins-land as I studied there, but I wasn't into hockey at the time and thought it was cool they had just won the Stanley Cup...
He's not even the best drummer on the Islanders.he had 3 months of bad hockey vs. the rest of his career.
If you want to say he's not top 5 in the league? That's a fair debate. But in the Metro?
Hear Ye! HEar Ye! HEAR ye! H--E--A.--R Y--E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does this man need to have a speaker implanted in his brain?????????????
Another F++ CKING LEFT D-MAN??????
A God D---ed. Center. A Center. A Center. Does it have to transmitted from the moon for this man to understand that the farm is desperate for 2 centers?
My head is swelling up to half again it's size from banging it on the wall. My kingdom for a top level #1 CENTER after which we'll settle for anything better than Filip Engaras. Let him serve the role he served last season, a competent #4 when 1 or more of the others are either injured or recalled. Right now he is one of only 4 signed centers.
I did get a chuckle out of this observation:
“Keefe will turn loose the fast and talented New Jersey team in ways that the more buttoned-up Lindsey Ruff wouldn’t dare.”
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I actually think the opposite, Keefe is going to put more limits on what players can do and it will end up getting better defense and offense out of the players.
Being too loose was dragging the team down everywhere, I think.
former future 30-goal scorer is how I refer to Marko Dano. I thought he was going to be a stud when he went to Chicago.
We sent ours to San Jose. I think Zetterlund gets to 30 goals before Holtz.
I'm sorryI'm moving very soon from the UK to Boston to join my wife (we've been doing almost 7 years of long distance). Looking forward to be able to go to a Devils game in person for the first time! Won't be my first time in Bruins-land as I studied there, but I wasn't into hockey at the time and thought it was cool they had just won the Stanley Cup...
i can't believe you posted that. i was literally just skimming the 'kovalchuk retires' parts 1-4 threads ten minutes ago.Remember the days of the annual ''Is this the year Kovy finally comes back'' talk every single offseason? That was always a hot topic around this time of year between 2014 and 2018.
Maybe this is the year he finally comes back though, and maybe he'll score 40 goals again? If he hadn't had his contract terminated in 2013 he'd still be under contract for this coming season before it ended at the conclusion of the year. So he was going to be on the team this coming year anyway, if he hadn't asked for a termination 11 years ago. Maybe we could use him? Dat veteran leadership? Also isn't afraid to drop the gloves and stick up for teammates.
Maybe all he needed was to take 2 years off from hockey to heal his back issues that have been plaguing him for over a decade?![]()
I might have to take a spin through those. I remember being pretty pissed.i can't believe you posted that. i was literally just skimming the 'kovalchuk retires' parts 1-4 threads ten minutes ago.
damn that is so crazy to think about. I don’t think the league handled the cap recapture stuff well, and i don’t even mean that in a Devils-centric way, but i’m glad they put year limits on NHL contracts. Someone needed to save GMs from themselves.If he hadn't had his contract terminated in 2013 he'd still be under contract for this coming season
Do you know who he played with last season? He had a good year. A shame if he's stuck with Wennberg centering his lineI'm curious to see if Zetterlund loses ice time (especially PP1) with them adding Toffoli, Celebrini, and possibly Smith onto the roster this season plus a returning Logan Couture.
I don't think he'll fall off a cliff like Alexander Barabanov, but I could see Zetterlund (18:51/game last season) losing a couple minutes.
Eklund (18:40) - Granlund (20:58) - Zetterlund (18:40)
Barabanov (15:52) - Hertl (20:54) - Duclair (16:10)
PP1: Eklund (2:42) - Granlund (2:58) - Hertl (2:56) - Zetterlund (2:29) - Addison (2:03)
If I had to guess, Sharks could roll with something like:
Granlund-Couture-Toffoli
Eklund-Wennberg-Zetterlund
Kostin-Celebrini-Dellandrea
PP1: Toffoli-Couture-Granlund-Celebrini-(insert PPQB here)
You thought wrong!I'm moving very soon from the UK to Boston to join my wife (we've been doing almost 7 years of long distance). Looking forward to be able to go to a Devils game in person for the first time! Won't be my first time in Bruins-land as I studied there, but I wasn't into hockey at the time and thought it was cool they had just won the Stanley Cup...
Do you know who he played with last season? He had a good year. A shame if he's stuck with Wennberg centering his line
San Jose Sharks captain Logan Couture worried about the future of his playing career while rehabbing a lower-body injury that's kept him out of the entire 2023-24 season.
Couture met with the media for the first time in months on Tuesday and opened up about the struggles of being sidelined for an extended period.
"I can honestly say two months ago, I would wake up and didn't know if I was ever going to play in the NHL again," he said
Granlund-Couture-Toffoli
Eklund-Wennberg-Zetterlund
Kostin-Celebrini-Dellandrea
PP1: Toffoli-Couture-Granlund-Celebrini-(insert PPQB here)
some of my takes in that thread (and that era in general) were pretty bad lol. i fully trusted lou to turn things around and sign jagr, brunner and some other clown whose name escapes me. ah, to be young againI might have to take a spin through those. I remember being pretty pissed.
My recollection of that day on this forum right before it was announced and the thread was posted was that we had a poster who was mad over something and made a thread calling out the mods or something (I think?) for deleting one of his threads. I think he may have even listed the specific mod in his title. I can't remember who it was, but I'm pretty sure it was someone who is no longer a mod/no longer a poster here. I'm pretty sure the poster was immediately banned.
And then when that was posted, it made a few people think that guy had made a new account and was making troll threads again.
I was here at work, where I still work today. Sitting probably in the same spot that I'm sitting right now.
the trick to being young again is to not get old in the first place.some of my takes in that thread (and that era in general) were pretty bad lol. i fully trusted lou to turn things around and sign jagr, brunner and some other clown whose name escapes me. ah, to be young again