This is ludicrous on so many levels. He's a child learning and still figuring so much out...that shows in his game every single night. He's slow to react frequently. He makes bad reads frequently... I'm not sure how you don't see this honestly. He left Siegenthaler out to dry twice against San Jose and Daws cleaned up the mess.
You’re not comparing him to Scott Niedermayer, you’re comparing him to Damon Severson, a guy that half the fan base hated with a passion. I was considered a Severson apologist. Even I would admit the guy was a complete imbecile at times. Nemec is just better already.
There’s a reason Severson would consistently underperform his expected goals against, and it wasn’t all goalies. He made catastrophic errors. And he stunk at defending odd man rushes.
You have described nearly every Devils d man not named Greene, Marino or Siegenthaler for the last decade. And oh yeah maybe Kulikov.
Nemec is not better than Damon at anything right now. Not a single thing. Certainly not in his own zone, not in transition and not in the offense zone... literally nothing.
Nah, I think Nemec is better in his own zone and better in the offensive zone. Damon has the edge in neutral zone play and transition IMO
He’s both better than Severson has been this year and better than Severson was last year.
Damon Severson played protected minutes last year on the best regular season Devils team in history. Nemec is not being protected on a shitty team in comparison.
No he didn't. Where are you coming up with this nonsense? His minutes and zone starts 5v5 were identical to Siegenthaler who was technically on the first pair.
@Guttersniped I could use your assistance with some charts.
That doesn't mean everyone else played "protect minutes"
So was it Dougie or was it Marino? I await your wrong answer. Anyway, this is all meaningless, Nemec is the better player already. Good for us!That doesn't mean everyone else played "protect minutes"
Graves most common partner after Marino was Severson.
Severson played as much with Graves and Siegenthaler combined as he did with anyone else...calling him a 3rd pairing Dman is bullshit
On a hockey team there is a 1st pairing, a second pairing, and a 3rd pairing. We had 3 right handed defensemen last season. Who was the 3rd pairing right handed defenseman?
And those pairings change based on situations. Severson played about half of his 5v5 minutes with Bahl/Smith (about 730 minutes) and the other half with either Siegenthaler/Graves/Dougie/Marino (about 630 minutes)
