GDT: ECQF Game 6: Your New Jersey Devils @ New York Rangers, 8 PM, ABC/ESPN+

[Bleedred]

Yeah I think the takeaway is that having the better goaltender in game 7s is a big factor.

Agreed.

And we all know Shesterkin is better than Jarry. Especially injured Jarry last year who had to come out of the rehab facility because Domingue was killing them. And he also CHOKED in the 2021 playoffs when healthy and CHOKED in that game against Chicago in the second to last game of the season this year to kill their playoff berth.

And Shesterkin is absolutely better than ''Best backup goalie in the league'' JOKE Raanta.

Schmid did give us some flashes of someone that could go head to head with him though.

 

[guitarguyvic]

We want Game 7 revenge for 94. Rangers want revenge for 2012.

Monday's game will be huge. If the Bruins lose game 7, the winner will arguably be the best team left in the playoffs.

The rangers will most certainly not be the best team left should they win and Boston loses.

No matter what happens, I’m very confident the rangers aren’t good enough to win the cup. Relying on your goalie and special teams might work for a couple of series when you have luck and referees on your side. It’s not a formula for winning a championship. Neither is constantly trying to buy your way to a cup with veteran prima Donnas.. Just like last year a better team is gonna come along and give them what they deserve.

 

[Unknown Caller]

Which really means nothing. It's not like the Rangers have some kind of special intrinsic quality that makes them better at games 7s.

I literally said "I'm not implying anything about tomorrow," but now that you mention it the one special intrinsic quality is phenomenal goaltending. We'll see how it plays out though.

 

[Devs3cups]

We'll see. I said that last year against Pittsburgh and Carolina too. Not implying anything about the game tomorrow, but it's just a ridiculous game 7 record.

Shouldn’t the law of averages come in here too as it does with “winning 3 straight at the Garden” and “scoring the first goal in a 4th straight game”?

Keep the faith baby! LFGD!

 

[Unknown Caller]

Wouldn’t the law of averages come in here too as it does with “winning 3 straight at the Garden” and “scoring the first goal in a 4th straight game”?

We'll see. Like I said, I'm a little scarred because I was riding that for Pittsburgh and Carolina last year too. Still stunned they won both of those.

 

[Devs3cups]

We'll see. Like I said, I'm a little scarred because I was riding that for Pittsburgh and Carolina last year too. Still stunned they won both of those.

We’re better than both those teams. Especially the Pens. I’m fairly confident we can pull through here.

 

[Eggtimer]

Why is it unacceptable to lose to them? Just because they're the Rangers and our biggest rival? It's not like they're some team like the Islanders that shouldn't have even made the playoffs.

But yeah, we need to beat these f***ers, because they WILL have their way with the Canes again in the second round if they beat us, just like last year. And then we'll be hoping for the Leafs/Bruins/Panthers to beat them in the conference finals. It'll be the same shit as the second round last year. Carolina and their pop gun offense won't be able to do shit against Igor, while they twiddle their thumbs and figure out which one of their two 34 year old, has-been injury cases is gonna be the guy they put in net each night.


It's the first Devils game 7 against the Rangers since 1994, but it's also only the second game 7 between the Devils and Rangers all time.

Actually, it's the third. 1992 was so long ago, combined with the fact that I don't think we were supposed to win that series, that I forgot that even went to 7.

1997 and 2008 went to 5, 2006 went to 4 and 2012 went to 6.

For what it's worth, it's the first game 7 between the two teams on Devils ice. The first two were at MSG.

Ya , If the Rangers were to play the Canes , it will be pathetic to watch . The Canes will outplay the shit out of the Rangers but no one on the Canes will be abke to beat Sheshterkin often enough while Rangers PP will continue to bounce in goals off of Krieder.

 

[Bleedred]

This just screams confirmation bias. Schmid has been just fine and his glove hand too.

Yeah, the goal from Zibanejad is a pretty frickin hard save to make. Close to impossible without luck, due to how close the shot was, but mostly just due to it being one timed. One timer is way harder to stop than just a wrister where the shooter already has the puck on his stick before unloading the shot. It's much harder to be in position for the one timer.

The Tarasenko goal definitely looked like a whiff. That was not one timed and could have had that one, but just misses it.

I think with that one, people then look at the Zibanejad one and think ''Okay! Look! Glove side goals! They've figured him out! It's high glove!'' not to mention that Kreider deflection goal went glove side, even though it had nothing to do with him being beaten glove side by a shot. Technically the fourth goal went glove side too, after it went off his leg pad and up into his glove, but I thought that was a fluke to even go up into his glove.

I often times hear announcers and analysts say ''Well, look! They're finding a weakness as 4 of the goals went glove side!'' even though they were all very different goals and only one of them was due to a weak glove hand. I didn't really hear that from the announcers or analysts last night about Schmid, but I just notice it at times after a game like Schmid had last night. And it could be blocker side as well, where 4 goals beat him to the blocker side, despite only 1 or maybe 2 actually having anything to do with a weak blocker side.

 

[Devilsfan992]

The rangers will most certainly not be the best team left should they win and Boston loses.

No matter what happens, I’m very confident the rangers aren’t good enough to win the cup. Relying on your goalie and special teams might work for a couple of series when you have luck and referees on your side. It’s not a formula for winning a championship. Neither is constantly trying to buy your way to a cup with veteran prima Donnas.. Just like last year a better team is gonna come along and give them what they deserve.

Since January 1st, they have the 5th best record in the league, and 3rd behind Bruins and Devils in the East. The Oilers and Avs are the remaining two teams.

 

[devilsblood]

I literally said "I'm not implying anything about tomorrow," but now that you mention it the one special intrinsic quality is phenomenal goaltending. We'll see how it plays out though.

Ya, I wasn't liking how Shesterkin played in that game 5 3rd period. Really wanted to see us get one by him there to shake that determination.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Ya , If the Rangers were to play the Canes , it will be pathetic to watch . The Canes will outplay the shit out of the Rangers but no one on the Canes will be abke to beat Sheshterkin often enough while Rangers PP will continue to bounce in goals off of Krieder.

Unfortunately with the injuries they now have they won’t even be able to push play that much against NYR.

 

[Eggtimer]

If we don’t get horseshit penalty calls and the call obvious penalties against the Rangers , we will win game 7 . The 4 penalties in a row destroyed all our momentum and kept our best players off the ice for a lot of the first part of the game. Hard to get going when they are all sitting on the bench and cold.

The officiating was garbage once again. Blatant high sticking on Tatar not called in the first . We had like 80% possession ( maybe somewhat exaggerated lol) but we got 4 penalties in a row with none against the Rangers trying to defend our onslaught ? BULLSHIT .

If the game was called as it should have been we would have steamrolled them in game 6. Only way Rangers can win is if they get multiple PP’s and we get none.

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

It really bothers me how this dipshit can't pronounce Schmid consistently.

It’s unprofessional. But he’s a dunce to begin with so f*** um. Game was on mute the whole time.

 

[JrFischer54]

Yeah I think the takeaway is that having the better goaltender in game 7s is a big factor.

Yeah definitely agree why I want that first goal big time tomorrow.

If we don’t get horseshit penalty calls and the call obvious penalties against the Rangers , we will win game 7 . The 4 penalties in a row destroyed all our momentum and kept our best players off the ice for a lot of the first part of the game. Hard to get going when they are all sitting on the bench and cold.

The officiating was garbage once again. Blatant high sticking on Tatar not called in the first . We had like 80% possession ( maybe somewhat exaggerated lol) but we got 4 penalties in a row with none against the Rangers trying to defend our onslaught ? BULLSHIT .

If the game was called as it should have been we would have steamrolled them in game 6. Only way Rangers can win is if they get multiple PP’s and we get none.

They weren’t winning that game 1-0 and it didn’t look like our top guys were going to score anyway. Still being 1-1 after all the penalties the guys couldn’t get that second goal. I don’t want penalties either but our top guys scoring sank us yesterday they all had tremendous chances

 

[Devs3cups]

Since January 1st, they have the 5th best record in the league, and 3rd behind Bruins and Devils in the East. The Oilers and Avs are the remaining two teams.

And to @guitarguyvic’s point, that’s the basically only because of PP’s and Igor. Their 5v5 play has been bottom of the league all season. Usually top teams are good 5v5.

 

[Eggtimer]

The rangers will most certainly not be the best team left should they win and Boston loses.

No matter what happens, I’m very confident the rangers aren’t good enough to win the cup. Relying on your goalie and special teams might work for a couple of series when you have luck and referees on your side. It’s not a formula for winning a championship. Neither is constantly trying to buy your way to a cup with veteran prima Donnas.. Just like last year a better team is gonna come along and give them what they deserve.

I can’t see a team that is shitty 5 on 5 and heavily relies on its goalie and PP making it far . Just too much luck to rely on. As we have seen , the Rangers have a garbage 4th line . Other teams (like us ) will exploit that.
Like I’ve said before , we won’t have to think about the Rangers past this round as we will best them if we get even close to fair refereeing.
Whats crazy is that we are going to game 7 while most of our studs ae not scoring . Imagine how deadly we are going to be once Meier , Nico , Bratt , Tatar , all get going !

 

[guitarguyvic]

I am completely confident that the devils are the better team. What I’m not confident in is that they can mentally handle their first ever game 7, winner takes all. We all saw how not ready they were for their first two playoff games. This is arguably even more intense and once again completely new territory for them. If they play loose without the jitters, I know the will win. I just don’t know that they will play loose without the jitters.

I hate that we didn’t get this done last night.

 

[Eggtimer]

Yeah definitely agree why I want that first goal big time tomorrow.



They weren’t winning that game 1-0 and it didn’t look like our top guys were going to score anyway. Still being 1-1 after all the penalties the guys couldn’t get that second goal. I don’t want penalties either but our top guys scoring sank us yesterday they all had tremendous chances

But you can’t look at it like we would have only scored he one goal at that point. That’s 8 minutes of play where we had to defend . Momentum is massive . If we could have just kept on playing 5 on 5 , I’m certain we would have scored more than one .

 

[guitarguyvic]

Since January 1st, they have the 5th best record in the league, and 3rd behind Bruins and Devils in the East. The Oilers and Avs are the remaining two teams.

I don’t care what their record is. When you suck balls 5v5 and have like zero home grown talent in your lineup, that isn’t the kind of team that wins championships.

 

[JrFischer54]

But you can’t look at it like we would have only scored he one goal at that point. That’s 8 minutes of play where we had to defend . Momentum is massive . If we could have just kept on playing 5 on 5 , I’m certain we would have scored more than one .

The following power plays the devils had some of the better scoring chances while short handed it’s not like the devils were barely getting by killing them. Also you look it as jack is more rested ride him harder double shift him. You also think the rangers top guys were out there for that time and came up with nothing. The devils should’ve been rolling with momentum after that 4th kill but we couldn’t score

 

[Devs3cups]

I am completely confident that the devils are the better team. What I’m not confident in is that they can mentally handle their first ever game 7, winner takes all. We all saw how not ready they were for their first two playoff games. This is arguably even more intense and once again completely new territory for them. If they play loose without the jitters, I know the will win. I just don’t know that they will play loose without the jitters.

I hate that we didn’t get this done last night.

Being down 0-2 on the road with the series on the line basically twice and win, I’m not worried about jitters anymore. That’s arguably a scenario as stressful. The way they did it matters also. They completely adjusted.

 

[JrFischer54]

I am completely confident that the devils are the better team. What I’m not confident in is that they can mentally handle their first ever game 7, winner takes all. We all saw how not ready they were for their first two playoff games. This is arguably even more intense and once again completely new territory for them. If they play loose without the jitters, I know the will win. I just don’t know that they will play loose without the jitters.

I hate that we didn’t get this done last night.

Jitters is definitely my concern too. You can’t deny it wasn’t a factor in games 1&2. Where ruff palat haula have to earn their keep

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

 

[oxman44]

We certainly weren't outplayed last night. Outside of a few shifts in the second and the obvious 4 penalties called in the first 23 minutes we controlled much of the play. The rags definitely got some lucky bounces, even the Goodrow goal I thought was pretty fortunate, the way it hung up there, even though it was a glorious scoring opportunity. They should be able to bring heat all night in game 7 with the line matchup advantage. I just dont want to see ANY more passing up shots, how many times have we had odd man rushes this series and not even got a shot off? 4,5?

 

[Devs3cups]

Schmeeeeeeeeed