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

[Cheddabombs]

 

[Bleedred]

Did we ever find out if Bastian was a healthy scratch to get MacDermid in there? Or was he potentially banged up and one of the guys Keefe was talking about who may not be able to go and that they’ll dress extras for in warmups?

 

[Devs3cups]

 

[JK3]

Did we ever find out if Bastian was a healthy scratch to get MacDermid in there? Or was he potentially banged up and one of the guys Keefe was talking about who may not be able to go and that they’ll dress extras for in warmups?

They said healthy scratch.

 

[Bleedred]

They said healthy scratch.

GROSS!

Rempe gets sent back to the AHL and MacDermid gets put in the very next game for the first time in like 10 games. YUCK!

And MacDermid was only brought in here because of Rempe in the first place lol.

That's why I don't complain about Bastian, because he's still eons better than MacDermid.

 

[McDuffz88]

Move Doug Hamilton for a team light on a D man if his jump does not improve. He is 31 and I would hate to see him at 32. Early season other GMs will look to add D to prevent a wasted season.

Moving Dougie is definitely the move. We need to move on from him before it's well known around the league that he lost a step. Ideally I would love to grab a good 3c or top 6 forward for him. That would be ideal. Palat unfortunately we're stuck with until he retires or we buy him out, there's no getting out of that one. That's the only real weakness on this team I'm seeing and defense is now our position of strength. It's real stupid to have Nemec riding the bench.

 

[Bleedred]

Moving Dougie is definitely the move. We need to move on from him before it's well known around the league that he lost a step. Ideally I would love to grab a good 3c or top 6 forward for him. That would be ideal. Palat unfortunately we're stuck with until he retires or we buy him out, there's no getting out of that one. That's the only real weakness on this team I'm seeing and defense is now our position of strength. It's real stupid to have Nemec riding the bench.

I wouldn't be so sure we're stuck with Palat.

We've seen worse contracts moved. We just might have to give up something of value to get rid of him.

He does have some limited no trade or something which kicks in next year, so that makes it harder.

And the fact that he has just one measly assist in 10 games is not a good pace for him if that doesn't pick up A LOT. It probably will a little bit, I can't see him only scoring 8 points this year if he plays 82 games, but it could still be ugly.

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

With two cross Atlantic flights to and from Prague

 

[Whaddagoal]

GROSS!

Rempe gets sent back to the AHL and MacDermid gets put in the very next game for the first time in like 10 games. YUCK!

And MacDermid was only brought in here because of Rempe in the first place lol.

That's why I don't complain about Bastian, because he's still eons better than MacDermid.

MacDermid generated an energy change. We got a PP. And then I think we got a goal soon after. In that instance, I actually felt MacDermid brought something helpful. Haha.

 

[Bleedred]

MacDermid generated an energy change. We got a PP. And then I think we got a goal soon after. In that instance, I actually felt MacDermid brought something helpful. Haha.

Even if he did last night, he'll be a net negative a lot more than not.

 

[njdevils1982]

With two cross Atlantic flights to and from Prague

i shat all over that damn prague nonsense from the beginning... why did they agree to it?

at least palat had his feel good homecoming, right

where the hell is he now?

 

[Bleedred]

Again, this schedule is nonsense.

I'm not gonna blame it on going to Prague.

The other team that went to Prague with us entered today having played 3 fewer games than we have,

 

[Dialamo]

Watch us lose 4-2 to the Ducks after they get assblasted by the Rags.

 

[Bleedred]

Watch us lose 4-2 to the Ducks after they get assblasted by the Rags.

We only went 0-2-0 against them last year lol!