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

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Run 11-7 if Lazar is out while we search for a 4C

We pants'd Kent Hughes for Kovacevic, let's do it for Jake Evans

 

[Devs3cups]

We pants'd Kent Hughes for Kovacevic, let's do it for Jake Evans

Wonder what it would take. Evans would be a good choice for 4C.

 

[dgibb10]

We pants'd Kent Hughes for Kovacevic, let's do it for Jake Evans

I've been listing Evans as a target since the first time I had to watch Chris Tierney play hockey in a devils uniform

 

[Emperoreddy]

“Don’t we any better pics of Nico?”
“Nope, there aren’t any”
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That's the face of an award winner

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

You know, I heard theres a pretty good fourth line center who was recently released from the KHL...

Can Cliff Pu take face offs?

 

[Better Call Sal]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851006017578111306

Always a worthwhile listen when Bobby has a mic in front of him.

 

[Devs3cups]

People thinking Nemec is on the block/available for trade because he's been scratched for a few games after a rough start to the season post injury and Kovacevic playing maybe the best hockey of his career is quite something.

 

[My3Sons]

People thinking Nemec is on the block/available for trade because he's been scratched for a few games after a rough start to the season post injury and Kovacevic playing maybe the best hockey of his career is quite something.

He’s been long rumored to be part of a package for Anderson from Montreal.

 

[Deviled]

Can we afford to pickup a forward? Not sure about how the roster size works; been a while since I paid attention to that

We had Bastian sitting as well as Nemec, and MacDermaid rotated in

 

[MasterofGrond]

People thinking Nemec is on the block/available for trade because he's been scratched for a few games after a rough start to the season post injury and Kovacevic playing maybe the best hockey of his career is quite something.

Legitimately had a habs fan ask me about him today (he didn’t believe it either)

Who is spreading this lmao

 

[Bleedred]

He’s been long rumored to be part of a package for Anderson from Montreal.

DAMMIT! You beat me to it!

The Josh Anderson jokes will forever be too easy when it comes to trade rumors involving us and Montreal. At least until his deal is done.

 

[glenwo2]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851006017578111306

Always a worthwhile listen when Bobby has a mic in front of him.

I bet he'll talk about how soft a shot Mike Mottau had again....

 

[Emperoreddy]

If nico wins the selke HFDevil will be abolished and reorganized into a Nico fan forum.

All members will be required to make daily posts about how they love Nico.

All food talk will be banned unless it involves Swiss cheese

 

[Deviled]

If nico wins the selke HFDevil will be abolished and reorganized into a Nico fan forum.

All members will be required to make daily posts about how they love Nico.

All food talk will be banned unless it involves Swiss cheese

 

[Devilsfan118]

Not looking like shit in B2B with teams with their other teams backup in? I don't even fault them for the Detroit loss but that's still a comically bad loss in totality. They're losing games in the stupidest fashion, just expecting them to get better from what we've seen this from the Devils outside of 22-23 is wishful thinking. They looked slower than Lou's retirement home of misfits last night, I don't see how that doesn't raise a concern for the majority of this fanbase.

Bro they've played 12 games. It's October.

Take a Xanax. Relax.

Edit: Whoops grabbed an old post. Still, enjoy the ride guys. It's... Very... Early.

 

[devilsblood]

It's interesting to watch how Keefe has the same idea as he had with the leafs to over load the top line every once in a while to shake things up. I always assumed it was down a couple desperation move, but he seems to do it more randomly than that, don't hate it.

In last nights game at least it was late period, so it wouldn't mess with the lines going fwd. Kind of think I remember that in previous games as well. Or at least it was late game and was, as you note, a desperation move. But yesterday was late period.

 

[Emperoreddy]

In last nights game at least it was late period, so it wouldn't mess with the lines going fwd. Kind of think I remember that in previous games as well. Or at least it was late game and was, as you note, a desperation move. But yesterday was late period.

He does it a bunch of times for offensive zone starts and it seems to be so that Nico can take the face off but not deny Jack an offensive zone start.

the bad games from last week featured some pretty poor face off numbers I believe so it's possible this is Keefe adjusting.

Also not a secret that Jack is still bad at face offs while Nico is the best on the team at them.

It's the alternative to Ruff's solution which was to put Haula with Jack so Haula could take the faceoffs

 

[Bad Goalie]

The goaltenders' stats are really alarming

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Not nearly as alarming as you might imagine. A 6/4 piece of plywood would have bad numbers with the team that plays in front of the Comets keepers. The defensive zone coverage is appalling. The odd man rushes are more common than any other zone entry. The shots from hand shaking distance with no Comet in sight is unreal. I know the Comets are not a good team, but DiNeen would be run out of own on a rail if he were coaching an NHL team playing this horribly in their own end.

 

[Deviled]

Not nearly as alarming as you might imagine. A 6/4 piece of plywood would have bad numbers with the team that plays in front of the Comets keepers. The defensive zone coverage is appalling. The odd man rushes are more common than any other zone entry. The shots from hand shaking distance with no Comet in sight is unreal. I know the Comets are not a good team, but DiNeen would be run out of own on a rail if he were coaching an NHL team playing this horribly in their own end.

I could be wrong as I dont watch the AHL.. but its got to be hard maintaining systems (or constantly tweaking them) to fit the talent you have when your big club is stealing from it at a rapid pace for the last half-decade

Then again, most of NJ's best players have come straight to the NHL from outside leagues; perhaps change is needed in Utica

 

[Better Call Sal]

Here's the podcast link for Holik. Haven't gotten the chance to listen to it yet.

 

[glenwo2]

If nico wins the selke HFDevil will be abolished and reorganized into a Nico fan forum.

All members will be required to make daily posts about how they love Nico.

All food talk will be banned unless it involves Swiss cheese

So swiss cheese with bratwurst then?

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851279917138239786

 

[Better Call Sal]

Fine with Dowling for the time being.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Here's the podcast link for Holik. Haven't gotten the chance to listen to it yet.

Man, Bobby is the best. He's so blunt.

I'm not fully through the interview yet but they get to 2000 and Ftorek being fired and asking for his thoughts. He says "I'm not kidding, I said "What took so long?".

 

[NJDevs26]

Yeah that doesn't surprise me, Ftorek was a bit of a weird bird and just did annoying little things like scratching Rafalski in his homecoming at Detroit or scratching Dano so he couldn't reach his 1000th game played at home.