GDT: Game #66 Devils host Canes @7pm ET

[Better Call Sal]

The organization has put a lot on his shoulders since Hall left. He's very young for all the responsibility. It has to be gratifying to finally have the team's success lift the weight off his shoulders to some extent. To do this with grace and kindness speaks to the foresight the team had when they handed the keys to him. He was clearly too young and burdened by it but he has grown into the role. Very happy for him.

I wholeheartedly agree. And it's the little things, you know? I always appreciate the brief moments you get with the players, even for a split second. Getting to shake his hand and just simply thank him for all he does and let him know that we love having him here, and getting a thank you in return for the support. Of course it's a small thing that doesn't mean a hell of a lot but you know when players are going through the motions with fan interactions, and Nico has always come across as a genuinely pleasant and humble guy.

I love this team and have been a fan for around 25 years, Nico is far up the list of my favorite people who have ever donned our sweater. I think he exemplifies everything you want out of a leader for your team, which as you said, is extremely impressive at still such a young age.

 

[Bleedred]

I haven’t gotten a defamation lawsuit in the mail yet so I don’t think he saw it

I can somehow imagine him bringing it up during a broadcast. And awkwardly trying to articulate it like a weird older guy that has zero experience with online message boards.

 

[NjDevsRR]

I can somehow imagine him bringing it up during a broadcast. And awkwardly trying to articulate it like a weird older guy that has zero experience with online message boards.

You know Bill, I may have gotten hit in the head too many times, I went on HFBoards and I WAS spongebob, ho oh my… these kids these days.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

This one feels good doesn't it? Yeah man big statement and another mature win where they managed the game and the puck. LFGD!


I bought something similar from the Goya stand at the Rock. For like $40 dollars lol.

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

NEW YORK CITY?!?!

 

[Saugus]

I haven’t gotten a defamation lawsuit in the mail yet so I don’t think he saw it

Well, you definitely will now that you gave him the idea.

 

[JimEIV]

Tie a Parmachenee Belle for ice out. Streamers are deadly when trolled at a walking pace in the northern lakes immediately after ice out in April. Particularly at the mouth of a feeder stream.

I wasn't familiar with that pattern and had to look it up.

I happen to find a video from one of my top 3 favorite tyers doing a demo of this pattern. Pretty old school wet fly. I'd give it a try but I don't have red duck quills. In fact, I don't think I have ever tied a pattern with red duck quills.

But I love to watch Davie work his magic and explain the pattern.

 

[JK3]

Check out the bench on the top left LMAO

 

[Camille the Eel]

I wasn't familiar with that pattern and had to look it up.

I happen to find a video from one of my top 3 favorite tyers doing a demo of this pattern. Pretty old school wet fly. I'd give it a try but I don't have red duck quills. In fact, I don't think I have ever tied a pattern with red duck quills.

But I love to watch Davie work his magic and explain the pattern.

Not sure what you could use to replace the red duck quill but I'm pretty sure you'd readily find something. There should be a fly tying guide to alternative materials. If there isn't one, that's a real hole in the literature. Mabe dyed Bucktail? You find these country stores in Maine, like Hussey's General Store in Windsor, with assortments of dyed bucktail. Green and Red are common.

As to this fly, as a streamer (can be cast too) my idea (not that I've read this) is that it imitates small baitfish, here most of all tiny rainbow trout. They winter in the small feeder streams and come into the lakes at the time the water opens so it would make sense that trolling the imitation would create interest. The fly was used for trout and landlocked salmon but will also excite bass I think, if they are sharing the waters. And increasingly they do. The salmonid fishery everywhere south of the north woods (and even there) is getting displaced by bass as the climate warms.

The whole question of what flies imitate, especially streamers, is fascinating and confused. Because who knows really why a fish bites. When a hatch is going on and they are feeding, well, maybe they'd strike at a bit of maribou or yarn to tinsel tied to a hook if it's the right size and profile?

 

[Camille the Eel]

Check out the bench on the top left LMAO

Coach is throwing his papers.

Jack's move here is interesting. The goalie is getting ready for the poke check and has his stick way down the handle, he's therefore expecting Jack to cut across the crease try to go to the backhand. Sneaky shot.

I wish Jack would approach shootouts with that kind of speed. It forces the goalie to react and opens up all sorts of options for the shot.

 

[JK3]

Coach is throwing his papers.

Jack's move here is interesting. The goalie is getting ready for the poke check and has his stick way down the handle, he's therefore expecting Jack to cut across the crease try to go to the backhand. Sneaky shot.

I wish Jack would approach shootouts with that kind of speed. It forces the goalie to react and opens up all sorts of options for the shot.

Yeah I noticed that last night, really slick play. I thought he was going to cut across and try to open him up but he recognized the poke check and released it quickly.

 

[New Jersey]

Check out the bench on the top left LMAO

Brind'Amour (I think?) with the animated "GFD!"

 

[Clam Jensen]

Yeah I noticed that last night, really slick play. I thought he was going to cut across and try to open him up but he recognized the poke check and released it quickly.

He said in his post game presser that on a previous shot that he went glove on, he saw daylight in his 5-hole so he kept that in his back pocket.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Bratt pulling the exact same shot off not too long after was just f***ing delicious, in honor of Cangy.

 

[Better Call Sal]

 

[AfroThunder396]

I'm surprised with how accessible Dano is, that he hasn't been made aware of those yet.

Actually, maybe he has?

And I remember somebody years ago claiming that Steve, Dano and Chico have confirmed that they do read these message boards?

Since I'm about to get found out, I'll get ahead of it confess that I'm actually Stan Fischler.

 

[JimEIV]

Not sure what you could use to replace the red duck quill but I'm pretty sure you'd readily find something. There should be a fly tying guide to alternative materials. If there isn't one, that's a real hole in the literature. Mabe dyed Bucktail? You find these country stores in Maine, like Hussey's General Store in Windsor, with assortments of dyed bucktail. Green and Red are common.

As to this fly, as a streamer (can be cast too) my idea (not that I've read this) is that it imitates small baitfish, here most of all tiny rainbow trout. They winter in the small feeder streams and come into the lakes at the time the water opens so it would make sense that trolling the imitation would create interest. The fly was used for trout and landlocked salmon but will also excite bass I think, if they are sharing the waters. And increasingly they do. The salmonid fishery everywhere south of the north woods (and even there) is getting displaced by bass as the climate warms.

The whole question of what flies imitate, especially streamers, is fascinating and confused. Because who knows really why a fish bites. When a hatch is going on and they are feeding, well, maybe they'd strike at a bit of maribou or yarn to tinsel tied to a hook if it's the right size and profile?

My tying is typically focused on the life cycle of specific bugs(for trout, saltwater is a completely different story) I tend to chase specific mayfly hatches throughout the year and tie for the bugs life cycle of nymph, emerger, adult and spent. With that, I know the exact size, color my flies should be. For instance the first major hatch of the year I will focus on is the Hendrickson hatch (colloquial name, the scientific name is Ephemerella subvaria) for the Hendrickson's I know the majority of the females will be a size #14 with a slight pinkish/tan color and a majority of the males with be a size #16 and be a more reddish mahogany color. One of the rare mayflies where the males and females vary to such a degree. So I am prepared for that when I hit the river in late April and early May when the water temps begin to reach 55 degrees. There's not much guessing in this scenario. If the bugs are present and hatching, I know what the fish are eating and how to imitate the food source

For trout, 90% of my imitations revolve around mayfly, caddis and stonefly patterns with hatching scenarios as the basis for the ties.

The other 10% is reserved for summer terrestrials such as grasshoppers, beetles, ants.

So my flies for the most part are purely imitative. Nature dictates the size and color for me.

Shamefully I don't do much streamer fishing for trout. And I do almost no stillwater fishing (lakes and ponds) for trout. Honestly I only subsurface fish when I absolutely have to and prefer to dryfly fish as often as possible. Although I do enjoy subsurface fishing if it is sight fishing to an individual fish. For me, it's all about seeing the eat and the trout's behavior. It's not unusual for me to sit on the bank of a river for hours and watch fish and bugs without ever taking a step towards the water or taking a cast. It is the most incredible forn of meditation I know of.

 

[DerekDevils30]

Check out the bench on the top left LMAO

I’m glad you clipped this. Was going to try to find it later today. Rod lost his mind.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Check out the bench on the top left LMAO

Cue the "DARN.gif"... Most Appropriate

 

[Camille the Eel]

My tying is typically focused on the life cycle of specific bugs(for trout, saltwater is a completely different story) I tend to chase specific mayfly hatches throughout the year and tie for the bugs life cycle of nymph, emerger, adult and spent. With that, I know the exact size, color my flies should be. For instance the first major hatch of the year I will focus on is the Hendrickson hatch (colloquial name, the scientific name is Ephemerella subvaria) for the Hendrickson's I know the majority of the females will be a size #14 with a slight pinkish/tan color and a majority of the males with be a size #16 and be a more reddish mahogany color. One of the rare mayflies where the males and females vary to such a degree. So I am prepared for that when I hit the river in late April and early May when the water temps begin to reach 55 degrees. There's not much guessing in this scenario. If the bugs are present and hatching, I know what the fish are eating and how to imitate the food source

For trout, 90% of my imitations revolve around mayfly, caddis and stonefly patterns with hatching scenarios as the basis for the ties.

The other 10% is reserved for summer terrestrials such as grasshoppers, beetles, ants.

So my flies for the most part are purely imitative. Nature dictates the size and color for me.

Shamefully I don't do much streamer fishing for trout. And I do almost no stillwater fishing (lakes and ponds) for trout. Honestly I only subsurface fish when I absolutely have to and prefer to dryfly fish as often as possible. Although I do enjoy subsurface fishing if it is sight fishing to an individual fish. For me, it's all about seeing the eat and the trout's behavior. It's not unusual for me to sit on the bank of a river for hours and watch fish and bugs without ever taking a step towards the water or taking a cast. It is the most incredible forn of meditation I know of.

Way off hockey topics but to sum up, you are certainly a classicist as to your fly fishing. And your description of the meditative aspect of observing and then reacting to what's happening hatch wise is really spot on. I have done almost all of my fishing in Maine and New Hampshire, where oddly the insect hatches are rather meager. Very brief and frenzied activity but nothing like the hatches that I read about In the Catskill steams and Delaware and its tributaries. You are very fortunate to have those hatches and I expect that as to trout it's a brown trout fishery. Very difficult fish, very shy.

 

[Whaddagoal]

I'm surprised with how accessible Dano is, that he hasn't been made aware of those yet.

Actually, maybe he has?

And I remember somebody years ago claiming that Steve, Dano and Chico have confirmed that they do read these message boards?

I mean, we literally have a user with @SteveCangialosi123 as the name...

...So it maybe not that far fetched.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Since I'm about to get found out, I'll get ahead of it confess that I'm actually Stan Fischler.

 

[JimEIV]

Way off hockey topics but to sum up, you are certainly a classicist as to your fly fishing. And your description of the meditative aspect of observing and then reacting to what's happening hatch wise is really spot on. I have done almost all of my fishing in Maine and New Hampshire, where oddly the insect hatches are rather meager. Very brief and frenzied activity but nothing like the hatches that I read about In the Catskill steams and Delaware and its tributaries. You are very fortunate to have those hatches and I expect that as to trout it's a brown trout fishery. Very difficult fish, very shy.

I have spent quit a bit of time on the Pemigewasset when I was younger chasing little native brookies. Beautiful place.

But if you want to find me in the spring look on the West Branch of the Delaware...that river is in my blood.

Look at those mayflies

 

[Guttersniped]

Photo time!

Spoiler: Hughes Scores!

What a scamp!

Spoiler: Bratt Scores and Smiles!

Spoiler: Bratt Scores Chaos Goal!

Spoiler: Helmets are difficult.

Puljujärvi’s head is an optical illusion.

It always looks like there’s a disconcerting amount of extra head up top to me.

Spoiler: We won!

Celebrate

Good Times

Come on

Let’s Celebrate

Spoiler: Random exciting other pictures!

The new guy.

Get a haircut hippie.

Woody’s signature move, “accidentally” plowing into opposing goalies. (Extra points for not slamming directly into the goal post.)

“So then we squeaked into the playoffs after Kinky and Hall got hot. Do Woody or Damon ever mention me? No? That’s cool.”

I fight the ice surface, the ice surface always wins
I’ve been doing it since I was a young kid
And I come out grinning

Brett Pesce, 2021 Raleigh-Durham Air Guitar Regional Champion

That’s our Cap!