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

[SansaStark]

Except Kurtis is who you're suggesting.

he is the only healthy player in the press box. If you take Jack out, you put macdermid in.

I have disallowed myself to comment further.

But solid point.

Unrelated, but I’d really like to take a look at Beckman

 

[Devs3cups]

 

[njdevils1982]

For anyone intersted.

hahahahah

theyre wearing them vs chicago on dec 14

i hope the newark hawks crush the bedard blackhawks and not just on the scorebord

 

[Billdo]

the only problem with them wearing the jersey jersey is that they wont sell me a goddamn hat hat

STOP TAUNTING ME

For real. I'd buy two just bc.

 

[Edmonton East]

Jumping straight to benching Jack doesn't make sense. See how he responds to being dropped to PP2 if he doesn't snap out of it soon. Balance the units a bit and roll 60-40 split or so. The staff is in a tough spot going after his ES minutes because, again, they have no center depth unless Mercer can function as a utility C. Haula is a fine 3C, but he can't play up the lineup consistently imo.

If that didn't work and Mercer can function as a C, next step would be trying something like this (highly unlikely):
Tatar/Palat/Cotter/whoever - Nico - Bratt
Hughes - Mercer - Meier (he can play right damnit)

 

[dgibb10]

Jumping straight to benching Jack doesn't make sense. See how he responds to being dropped to PP2 if he doesn't snap out of it soon. Balance the units a bit and roll 60-40 split or so. The staff is in a tough spot going after his ES minutes because, again, they have no center depth unless Mercer can function as a utility C. Haula is a fine 3C, but he can't play up the lineup consistently imo.

If that didn't work and Mercer can function as a C, next step would be trying something like this (highly unlikely):
Tatar/Palat/Cotter/whoever - Nico - Bratt
Hughes - Mercer - Meier (he can play right damnit)

Lmao. Thank god none of you guys are coaches.

"Let's take our best PP weapon off PP1 so we can both make our team less successful and get him less opportunity to work through things"

 

[My3Sons]

Lmao. Thank god none of you guys are coaches.

"Let's take our best PP weapon off PP1 so we can both make our team less successful and get him less opportunity to work through things"

If they did something like that here and there for load management it might make sense. As a semi-punishment until he's back to 100% it is self defeating as you've noted.

 

[Billdo]

If we're being silly about demoting Jack maybe we should roll Hamilton-Meier-Hischier-Noesen-Bratt, Nemec-Tatar-Hughes-Palat-Mercer

 

[My3Sons]

If we're being silly about demoting Jack maybe we should roll Hamilton-Meier-Hischier-Noesen-Bratt, Nemec-Tatar-Hughes-Palat-Mercer

I guess you can try to move Hischier up and move Jack down to the third line?

 

[MadDevil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848787350668906534

 

[dgibb10]

If they did something like that here and there for load management it might make sense. As a semi-punishment until he's back to 100% it is self defeating as you've noted.

If you want to ride the hot hand by cutting some of his 5v5 minutes for the currently blazing hot Noesen-Cotter combo, go ahead.

But taking the literal engine of your PP off of the PP is insane. NJD legit struggles to even get into the ozone without Jack and Luke on the PP.