Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - playoff edition
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- May 1, 2011
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*It's happening gif*
Ahh........Who am I kidding?
Ahh........Who am I kidding?
Blackwood’s save percentage since coming back from injury in March is .862%. There was no decision there have to go with the other two.
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Actually, while I don't trust Ruff myself, I think even HE sees now that playing Blackwood in relief to Vanacek would be a bad idea.
Last game proved it.
Blackwood is here to back up Schmid who will back up Vitek in the playoffs.
Translation : Blackwood is going to fetch water for Vitek and Schmid as well as Coffee for the Coaching Staff.
guitarguyvic
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Absolutely brutal stats with that guy. I soured on his character long ago, and his on-ice performance followed suit. He’s basically the last remnant of the suckage era.
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Cheddabombs
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lol was listening to the post practice interviews and Jack got two having said that's in
oh my!
oh my!
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I soured on him after 2 seasons and 55 games of .893% goaltending.
Tack on another 22 games of .893% this year. It’s amazing how consistent he’s been since game 6 of the 2020-2021 season.
Guy is the worst full time goalie in the national hockey league, save for maybe a couple of old 37 year olds like Elliott and Quick who might not be in the NHL next year. At least Elliott won’t be.
Team got better, the goalies got better and yet he still stayed the same shitty sieve he’s been.
If he played on the Rangers or some other rival even more people would be shredding the f*** out of him and making fun of the Rangers for still throwing such a travesty out there still.
Eggtimer
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Sweet lord above . Maybe they finally realize that Blackwood is not the second goalie anymore.
Schmid has shown multiple times that when he comes into relieve , he slams the door shut . Plis his starts are better than Blackwood. Schmid is simply the better goalie and has proven it enough .
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Yeah but if you take out his Washington game, it’s probably closer to .890% something just like his last 3 seasons LOL.
Capt Nico Poo
Holik to HHOF
Haula got more points this season than Kakko 
Clam Jensen
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Listening to Amanda ask the same question to every player is painful.
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I know we've all had our fair share of bad takes at times, but there was an extremely vocal contingent out there that really used a lot of calories in trying to convince their point that Kakko was better than Hughes and he should go first overall. I don't think it was a significantly sizable contingent, but it sure was a vocal one.Haula got more points this season than Kakko
Plays against men will forever be one of my favorite lines and the most hilarious.
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I don't think Kakko is a bad player and I think he'll have a decent career, but he just looks more like a Pavel Zacha than anything close to a Jack Hughes level or even a Nico Hischier level. Somewhere there's a Bruins fan reading this going ''BUT ZACHA'S A PRETTY GOOD PLAYER THO!''.
It is kind of fitting that Jack scored one more point this season than Kakko has in his entire career to date and Kakko even played 82 games this year and Jack didn't.
Jack still goes 1st overall in the redraft and it isn't even close.
And while I'm on Nico, he wouldn't go 1st overall in a 2017 redraft, but I've seen redrafts that don't have him in the top-5 and that's crazy.
It is kind of fitting that Jack scored one more point this season than Kakko has in his entire career to date and Kakko even played 82 games this year and Jack didn't.
Jack still goes 1st overall in the redraft and it isn't even close.
And while I'm on Nico, he wouldn't go 1st overall in a 2017 redraft, but I've seen redrafts that don't have him in the top-5 and that's crazy.
JimEIV
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How weird is going to be when Ruff wins the Jack Adams? 
Start the season with chants of fire Lindy, end the season with the Jack Adams.
Start the season with chants of fire Lindy, end the season with the Jack Adams.
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Blackwood is turning into a broken version of Schneider just 10 years earlier in his career. I really want the guy to succeed but it's not working out here. We played alot better with Schmid in the Capitals game but I'm not sure we win it without him. Schmid hasnt posted great numbers in the AHL this year but he's been good when called up. The Caps game and that game when he came in cold vs the Sens to help keep our win streak going back in Nov/Dec he came up big.
DerekDevils30
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How weird is going to be when Ruff wins the Jack Adams?
Start the season with chants of fire Lindy, end the season with the Jack Adams.
He deserves it. Truly.
Fitz should also get the GM award.
Eggtimer
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I think when it comes to looking at Schmids AHL #’s you just tos them out and not put much weight into those stats . The AHL is not as structured and tee are way more break downs and loose play. Whenever Schmkd has been called on to play with the big club , he has been excellent. The times where he didn’t look good , he was called up last minute or was given short notice that he was starting. That is very hard to do when you are a goalie. Lots of goalies need time and preparation to get dialed in and prepared . Coming into a gam in relief is shitty but Schmid has been excellent when called upon
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Boston's mega year can foil both Fitz and Ruff.
But based purely on the turn around I don't know how Fitz isn't GM of the year?
Eggtimer
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I agree . Those two deserve more credit.
I think the Bs coach wins the award , setting record for most wins . I think Ruff and our assistants deserve it more but Montgomery ends up winning .
TheSituation
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Absolute insanity. He's our best offensive defensemen since Stevens and people want him gone????
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Don't forget the Colorado game where Vitek just didn't have it that night and Schmid came in at 6-5 I think it was? And he held the one goal lead for the 3rd period and we end on in regulation for the win. We gave up an early goal in the 3rd period that brought it to within one and Vitek had looked very shaky the period before, so Lindy put him in when we weren't even tied or losing and he save the game for us. With the way Vitek looked that night, I wouldn't have bet money that he wasn't scored on again. Schmid's AHL numbers are probably about league, if I had to guess. In that neighborhood, at least. And I'm not even kidding and maybe I'm grapsing and data snooping here myself, but it just so happens that every time Schmid's play drops in the AHL this year, it seems to coincide with him being sent back after Blackwood gets healthy again. I'm dead serious that's how it's gone. It's almost like he's like ''f*** it! What good is my play here doing? I can't even stay up there and I'm better than him at the NHL level''. Don't even get me started on Blackwood's AHL play, which was significantly worse than Schmid's this year. His best season was about on par with Schmid this year and that was his first year in the AHL and I'm sure the league average save percentage was higher that year than it is this year. Just like it is in the NHL.
Like I said, the universe keeps sending us signals with Blackwood and Schmid. It's been doing so since Schmid first got called up when Blackwood was injured in November. It was almost like fate was sealed as soon as he was pulled that we were gonna come back and win that Washington game and it wasn't gonna end up 6-1 or 7-2 or something like that with Schmid allowing goals.
When Schneider became broken he still wasn't THIS bad. And talk about the universe sending signals. Blackwood's last 3 years are almost a cruel joke for people like me that thought decline version of Schneider is the worst thing we'll see in goal. It's almost like karma for buying out Schneider. Which was still the right thing to do,
It's like some higher powers are saying ''So you think Schneider is the worst you thing you'll ever see, huh? That Blackwood guy came in and woefully outplayed Schneider last two years, right? Well guess what? You ain't seen nothing yet, because that guy is gonna be even worse than Schneider's last 4 seasons here over his next 3 seasons here. And if you really make us mad, we're gonna make sure he's given his qualifying offer in 2023 and handicap a competitive Devils team's salary cap for a league minimum caliber goalie that year, so watch yourself!''.
The sad part is that I don't even think Schneider in 2023 at 37 years old is actually worse than Blackwood right now at 26 years old. His last two years in the AHL haven't been at all bad, but I doubt he'd play that well at the NHL level. Still, there's not many goalies this year that have been worse than Blackwood, but the ones that have (Merzlikins, Markstrom to name a couple) been worse have actually experienced successful/good seasons much more recently than Blackwood has in this league.
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