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

[Triumph]

I am not sure why everyone is acting like Foote is done here, or even that he played that bad on Wednesday. Who else comes up if a scoreline winger gets hurt? I agree he's done here long-term but that's been true for a while. I mean I guess they could move Tatar back up and then go with an all Utica 4th line with Halonen, that also makes some sense.

Bowers has played well enough to claim that 4th line spot for now and Meier's no longer serving the suspension.

 

[Devils731]

I am not sure why everyone is acting like Foote is done here, or even that he played that bad on Wednesday. Who else comes up if a scoreline winger gets hurt? I agree he's done here long-term but that's been true for a while. I mean I guess they could move Tatar back up and then go with an all Utica 4th line with Halonen, that also makes some sense.

Bowers has played well enough to claim that 4th line spot for now and Meier's no longer serving the suspension.

I don’t think Foote is done but I think he won’t get the next chance at a scoring call up or any call up.

I think they try to roll the dice on Halonen, Hardman, or Beckman before going back to Foote.

Basically I think they all get a small chance to impress and they all likely struggle to do so but you just try new guys and hope.

I’d be interested in seeing Parent get a look but with his size I think the team will look elsewhere unless he puts up an absurd amount of points in Utica.

 

[guitarguyvic]

Really bizarre for an offense ranked towards the top of the league to have four shutouts a quarter of the way through the season.

What’s the status of Bastian and Lazar?

 

[Hisch13r]

Paul Cotter is literally me

 

[forceten]

The Markstrom thing has me concerned. I didn't want him to begin with because of his age. We would have paid far more for Saros or Askarov from NSH or for one of Boston's goalies, but my god... both of those trade partners look like they'd have been better. Hellebuyck is looking solid in Winterpeg too.

I don't know that Daws is our future starter and right now he's the best of our bunch. Goaltending is a continued issue here, even if this year's tandem is marginally better than last year's.

Why we aren't scoring in these games is beyond me too... we either score 4 or 0 it seems. Luke Hughes is playing lights out defensively but his offense has vanished nearly completely. Even with Meier out we had a number of players who could have contributed to get 4 goals... Jack Hughes, Hischier, Bratt, Cotter, Noesen, Mercer, Haula, Luke Hughes, Hamilton any combo here ...

Sigh. Yet we're 6th in point percentage so that's a major positive, but I can't help feel like we should be even higher. I think watching the Hurricanes "get worse" in FA and end up far better and seem completely unable to lose (except to us ha ha) makes it more of a sense of urgency than perhaps it should be.

Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving yesterday!