I’d actually say what could save Recchi’s ass as bad as the PP has been is Jack and probabky some of the other players seem to like him. Our young superstar liking him and telling Fitz that could legitimately help keep him his job even tough it shouldn’t.
Those OT loss points don’t actually have that big of an impact. The two teams with the most points gained from OT loses got 14 and then 12 and the two teams with the least got 5. And then everyone else was in between that. So the biggest difference between the 5 and 14 OT lose teams is 9. Otherwise the differences caused by the OT loses is for the most in the 1-5 point range which really isn’t huge.
Agree entirely.
Nailed it.
EXACTLY. It made zero sense then and makes zero sense now.
Although I agree that he may be a head coach someday I think that college route is very unlikely. Is there many or any coaches that have gone from NHL assistant to college coach? And then back as an NHL head coach. I could see the AHL route but I think the most likely is if he does well enough over time as an assistant coach he will get a head coaching opportunity. It seems that he is highly viewed and as some have suggested the Devils may have been grooming him to be an eventual head coach. There’s also a decent chance he is one of the candidates the devils look at as Ruff’s replacement.
Ruff needs to go too. We’re a joke if we keep Ruff.
With guys like Zetterlund and Tyce around I do not see any room for Vesey. If the team cannot find a way to move AJ and/or Tatar there will already be blockers around.
No room for him . Wood coming back and Zetterlund and others competing for a roster spot . He was decent for us but not good enough to warrant resigning him.
Vesey has been useless since December. I'm okay if Kuokkanen is the 13th forward next season.
A friend of mine recently asked me what I liked about Jimmy Vesey. I answered: "whenever he's on the ice at LW, it means Johnsson or Zacha are not on the ice at LW." But I couldn't really think of anything else.
He might have a hard time finding NHL work next year, considering all he got this year was a PTO and it’s not like he was any better this year than he was last year.
What Vesey has going for him are that he's willing to:
I do think Blackwood has a MUCH greater chance of bouncing back than Schneider ever did, just based on age and the fact that as of now, he hasn't had as many bad seasons/long of a stretch of poor play as Schneider did when he was still ''Bouncing back''. Schneider literally had about a 120 game stretch of .905% goaltending (which in some of those years the league average save percentage was as high as .912%-.913% and no lower than .910%, where it's been at or under .910% these last 2-3 years I think) when people were still talking about how he was gonna bounce back because he was a .920% for the final 16 or 18 games of the 18-19 season, along with 5 games (or whatever the number was) of .925% at the world championships and I think he even had something like a .950% in 2-3 preseason games in 2019. Schneider was also 33.5 years old coming into his last season with the Devils, while Blackwood is not even 25.5 years old yet. I gave Schneider maybe a 10% chance of ever being good again, unless it was either just one last good comeback season before returning to decline version the next year or if he were used in a very sparsely used backup role. Goalies Schneider's age do not bounce back after that many poor years. Rinne did somewhat, but even he didn't have 3-4 bad years in a row before he bounced back. Only 3 bad seasons in 4 years with a very limited number of games played those first two seasons. Khabibulin in the late 00's had one good season out of nowhere as the Hawks starter after years of decline, then resumed right back into his decline.
