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

[TheBeerNerd]

Appears there is an exodus from Twitter/X. I hope NJD social media starts putting up content on these alternative platforms soon.

Bill Spaulding also posts on Bluesky, as does InStilletos. Amanda Stein just made an account, but it's not her main source yet. There are a whole lot more people both Devils-centric and around the league who've made the jump.

It's a good platform, at least for now. Nothing good lasts online, I'm afraid.

 

[Better Call Sal]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857521625857466436

#FreeTuna

 

[Ripshot 43]

Appears there is an exodus from Twitter/X. I hope NJD social media starts putting up content on these alternative platforms soon.

Nothing wrong with X.

 

[Emperoreddy]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857521625857466436

#FreeTuna

Issue is there isn't really a place to free him to.

 

[NJDfan86]

Issue is there isn't really a place to free him to.

I’d take getting him one competent linemate, personally.

 

[Emperoreddy]

What's Haula's underlying numbers been like? I feel like he has been doing a good job at 3C but lost in the shuffle a bit

 

[Better Call Sal]

Issue is there isn't really a place to free him to.

Oh I know. I just mean eventually. You certainly can’t alter the top 9 the way things are going right now.

There’s a lot of negative Tatar discourse but he’s saddled with two boat anchors right now. He’s still a useful player. I’d like to see him with other useful players when possible.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Nothing wrong with X.

I strongly disagree. No specifics but when I left in 2015, it was for reasons that seem quaint compared to today. It's not that it's non-functional because it functions well, but you have to be part of the, shall we say, specific userbase it caters to.

 

[My3Sons]

Oh I know. I just mean eventually. You certainly can’t alter the top 9 the way things are going right now.

There’s a lot of negative Tatar discourse but he’s saddled with two boat anchors right now. He’s still a useful player. I’d like to see him with other useful players when possible.

Last night he made a couple of poor decisions that seemed unforced. That's my concern. I'm used to him having good advanced stats with little to show in the way of actual goals because he has been very safe and reliable. Maybe he's struggling having to play with fourth line guys but I was surprised to see him cause problems in the defensive zone.

 

[Maine Fan]

I always believed Blackwood was a good goalie in NJ, when healthy.

Unfortunately for us he had real trouble staying healthy his entire time as a Devil.

The funniest part of Blackwood’s 23-24 season* was that he stayed healthy until
until he was injured in a game vs us in late February.

I assume old habits die hard and he was just used to getting injured when he saw a bunch of Devils skaters on the ice.

Vanecek isn’t good though lol.

*for me more than Blackwood

Hi Guttersniped,

I don't agree that Blackwood was a good goalie. Out if his 7 years, check his record, he only had 2 years with more wins than losses. One of those years was a joke, he won 10 lost 6. So he only had one winning year. He was never that good for our Devils. Just my opinion. I think he hurt the Devils while with them. Vanicek was a backup goalie that had a great year with the Devils, just one.

Best they are gone. Moving on. Our present goalies know they must get better. They are working on improving.


Go Devils.

 

[Guadana]

What if Flyers offered us Michkov. Do we immediately say yes, as we still have Casey as RHD depth.

I like Nemec a lot for obvious reasons but Devils will trade Nemec, Casey, Arseniy and Lenny for him in one package but flyers would still not trade him at all. I believe there are very few options for flyers to trade him and all of them are insane for any other part. I don't think we have any asset they would agree to trade for. Jack Hughes included.