Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - season begins!

[Stephen Gionta]

The Olympics suck, three weeks of terrible hockey and jingoistic dick waving just so one of the three good teams can win 5 games.

Brutal take.

 

[TrufleShufle]

I'll never understand how anything outside of regulation/playoff NHL pisses people off so bad.

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

Chaste Stillman has 2 points in 15 games and is a -7 for Utica. He has to be one of our worst 1st round picks ever along with guys like John Quenneville and Stefan Matteau.

 

[HBK27]

Chaste Stillman has 2 points in 15 games and is a -7 for Utica. He has to be one of our worst 1st round picks ever along with guys like John Quenneville and Stefan Matteau.

IIRC, fans hated each of those picks immediately as they were made.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but I love best-on-best on the big stage. And for casual viewers, it doesn't get any bigger than the Olympics.

That 2010 final between the US and Canada was must watch stuff. It made it even better as a Devils fan to see Zach tie the game late to send it to OT.

 

[JimEIV]

Chaste Stillman has 2 points in 15 games and is a -7 for Utica. He has to be one of our worst 1st round picks ever along with guys like John Quenneville and Stefan Matteau.

Nah 29's and 30's overall don't compare to 11, 7 and 17.

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but I love best-on-best on the big stage. And for casual viewers, it doesn't get any bigger than the Olympics.

That 2010 final between the US and Canada was must watch stuff. It made it even better as a Devils fan to see Zach tie the game late to send it to OT.

I remember watching that one clearly. A February day after the tri-state area got hammered with a huge snowstorm. If only someone on the USA scored the "golden goal". Would of made the tournament even better for us in the States.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

I like international competitions less for national pride reasons and more because it's fun to just all the best players on a few teams playing each other. But sometimes that leads to injuries, that's why I'm hesitant.

 

[HBK27]

I generally enjoy best-on-best tournaments, but certainly enjoy them more when the Devils suck and an injury to one of their players is not a major concern.

 

[Hisch13r]

Chaste Stillman has 2 points in 15 games and is a -7 for Utica. He has to be one of our worst 1st round picks ever along with guys like John Quenneville and Stefan Matteau.

Obvious disaster pick from the second it was made.

 

[DumbManHockey]

I'm going to hold your hand when I say this.........

you know what i meannnn Friday.... does all of section 19 get the food bars?

 

[SJinNewJersey]

3 in 4 days

4 in 6 days road trip

Seems he is in Denmark, that's why he saw it that way.

 

[My3Sons]

Obvious disaster pick from the second it was made.

What are you talking about? Can't you read the post you were quoting? The guy is chaste. What more do you want in today's world.

 

[Patrik26]

I wish one day we can have a good ole fashioned All Star game...a regular Campbell vs Wales All Star game.

How about instead moving the legends game from November to the usual All-Star weekend. Put the kabosh on the ASG and give all the players time off. The league already sucks at promoting today's players (not that many of them have any personality, but that's another story) and fans can basically watch them already with an ESPN+ sub or, ahem, alternative methods.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

If you don't care or think it sucks just don't watch it?

If the players are into it, it could be great. Some players really care about representing their country in these tournaments and maybe it will be good hockey. I'm glad the NHL is doing something to enable a best on best tournament, even if it's a tortured attempt to make sure they are getting money out of it.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

YES I'm finally getting my Tatar-Haula-Mercer line. Don't let me down boys. Now just need my Palat and Cotter flip

Cotter has not been good to my eye recently. He looks off. Sick or injured or something.

 

[Hisch13r]

Cotter has not been good to my eye recently. He looks off. Sick or injured or something.

I think he's just recently been more like what Paul Cotter actually is.

 

[DerekDevils30]

3rd line loses some physicality but gains a lot in all around play with Tatar. Can trust him more without the puck as opposed to Cotter. 4th line should be fun with Cotter there now

 

[Whaddagoal]

I will be at this game tonight and if we don't win, I'm gonna be salty til hanukkah.

Out of curiosity, anyone know what seats get access to the food bars?

Just to be a good citizen, the game is tomorrow...if we are talking about the Devils game.

So, if you go tonight you may have trouble getting in.

 

[theoptimist]

Why do you want Walker Kessler? I don't think Markanen plays center anymore.

Can he win faceoffs?

 

[billingtons ghost]

Cotter has not been good to my eye recently. He looks off. Sick or injured or something.

Since those reverse hits man. I think he's got a bum knee

 

[Guttersniped]

Yeah but you are a hockey fan entrenched in the intricacies of the game. To be perfectly honest...no one cares about you, they got you.

But Cody down in Fort Worth sucking on Coors light in a dank bar who doesn't know a puck from a donut is going to look up at the television screen when they see that USA jersey, we just might get him too.

Jim’s right and I believe the current younger stars are less famous because they haven’t played in the Olympics.

A NHL playoff game never remotely has the same ratings as Olympic medal game with NHL stars.

If I was the owner of the Devils I would very much want the Hughes on the US Olympics team because it would make them bigger stars. If the US finally managed to win a gold medal it would be a big publicity boost.

The ratings numbers reflected the anticipation of the Olympic gold-medal game between Canada and the United States.

Sunday's epic -- won by Canada 3-2 in overtime -- was the most-watched hockey game since the gold-medal game in 1980, when the United States beat Finland after stunning the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice." That gold-medal game drew 32.8 million.

According to NBC, the game drew an average viewership of 27.6 million and a rating of 15.2, a jump of 45.5 percent from the same matchup at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. Both gold-medal games were aired midafternoon live.

From 5:30 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, the audience reached its peak, with 34.8 million glued to the TV.

The game, carried in Canada on nine national networks and in eight languages, became the most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history. An average of 16.6 million Canadians, or about half of the nation's population, tuned in.

And about 80 percent of the population, or 26.5 million people, watched at least part of the game.

Canada-U.S. hockey draws historic TV ratings

Sunday's epic -- won by Canada 3-2 in overtime -- was the most-watched hockey game since the gold-medal game in 1980

www.espn.com

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

I like Cotter on the 4th line. He can carry the puck in the zone and Legare can try to kill someone on the forecheck.

 

[NjDevsRR]

I like Cotter on the 4th line. He can carry the puck in the zone and Legare can try to kill someone on the forecheck.

@My3Sons

 

[Emperoreddy]