GDT: Game 2 - New Jersey Devils vs. New York Rangers - 7:30pm MSGSN, TBS

[Its Always Sundstrom]

you're singing my tune

To each their own but I find that quite a shit point of view. Whatever happens for the rest of this series we now have a lot of guys who never played in the playoffs who will come out with a learning experience one way or the other. Whether it's a tremendous comeback or remembering that they never wanna feel this way ever again.

Plus who the f*** wants to live in Buffalo? Miserable city, miserable people, overrated chicken wings and absolutely no guarantee they won't suck and miss the playoffs yet again.

Been there 3 times. Never saw the sun and was bored. Saw a frozen Niagara Falls though. That was cool.

 

[Emperoreddy]

It doesn’t look like that at all actually. You don’t fluke into 112 points. Not even sure what that means.

It means we weren't as good as our record suggested, which we are currently proving

 

[Clam Jensen]

It means we weren't as good as our record suggested, which we are currently proving

Wouldn’t shitting the bed in 2 playoff games be more flukey than having an incredible 82 game run?

 

[Devs3cups]

It means we weren't as good as our record suggested, which we are currently proving

Guess the Lightning weren’t either when they got swept by Columbus.

*cue the it’s not the same*

 

[None Shall Pass]

The same people who spent every GDT complaining that our team was a fluke and bad when we were down 1-0 7 minutes in to like the Blue Jackets on a Tuesday night game in February are now saying our whole season was a fluke.

Just stupid.

 

[Satans Hockey]

Wouldn’t shitting the bed in 2 playoff games be more flukey than having an incredible 82 game run?

Also it's not like it's a 1 vs 8 seed match up. The Rangers unfortunately are a good team who only finished 5 points behind us.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

It means we weren't as good as our record suggested, which we are currently proving

Oh no! Luckily we have some extremely promising players in the system that can hopefully help us do something special in the coming years. And you shouldn’t care if we take a step back in the regular season next year because as you’ve made clear, it means absolutely nothing whatsoever.

 

[NJDevs26]

It doesn’t look like that at all actually. You don’t fluke into 112 points. Not even sure what that means.

Ten OT/SO points, sneaking up on teams early in the season, Vitek likely having a career year - this season absolutely looks like a fluke when you can’t even compete in the playoffs. I get what people are saying about it being better to make it than be irrelevant but it’s always been these type of seasons that annoy me more - get 100+ points then lose this easy in the first round, it just makes the regular season feel like a collosal waste of time.

The funny thing is which year did the Devils set a win record is gonna be a great trivia question in 10-15 years…you mean it wasn’t a Cup year? Or 2001, the most talented Devils team of all time that made it to Game 7? It was the team that lost in 4-5 to the Rangers in the first round like they were nothing?

 

[Emperoreddy]

Getting swept

 

[Richer's Ghost]

I'd take this season over Buffalo. Buffalo took 3 big steps forward this year. We took like 6 big steps forward but now are taking 2 back in the playoffs. Still shows the sky is the limit for this roster and they've smelled winning the metro and being top of the league in points. They know they can do it - problem now is getting past the hurdles of playoff vs regular season hockey where it's a single opponent and you have to craft your game to beat them preparing for you and you preparing for them adjusting. We're failing horribly in that at the moment but it's another step to success. Fail forward, not backward and in spite of what roster decisions are being made.