Post-Game Talk: GM 09 | Devils def. Canucks | 6-0 | Look at this light.

[Canucker]

This team needs a powerplay coach bad, that was horrendous yesterday lol. A team like the Oilers will score 40% of the time, if they don’t it’s so good it gives them momentum. Ours kills our momentum it’s so bad, can’t win a Championship without a dangerous powerplay.

Everyone wants to defer and pass it around the horn and look for the pretty "tic tac toe" play but they simply need to get more pucks directed at the net and muck away in front...battle for position and force defenders to screen their own goalie. They've lost the plot if they think they're going to finesse every PP for goals.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Older brother always wins.

Luke will switch to 34.

And I am getting more and more convinced every day that this will eventually happen, which will prove Devils fans correct and was likely sealed the day they drafted Luke.

Trying to enjoy Quinn for as long as we have him, but if this team takes a dive in the next few years I don't see him sticking around for the rest of his career. The Devils would be cup contenders by adding him to this lineup.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Canucks seem to have gotten better in the neutral zone but significantly worse in the offensive zone and defensive zone. Skating so fast leaving pucks behind, lots of north-south skating without generating much, failing to slow it down in the offensive zone and make smart east-west plays, lots of gliding instead of controlled possession, not able to maneuver through traffic, not taking it to the front of the net, unable to get to the slot, not mucking it up and playing chippy, leaving lots of space defensively, too much gliding not enough accelerating & braking, no creativity.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Hopefully now everyone else realizes silovs isn't nhl ready yet, guy should be in Abbotsford asap.

Whatever it takes to motivate an ep trade at this point is my preference, and I'm more convinced than ever hoglander is going with him.

 

[Breakers]

Hopefully now everyone else realizes silovs isn't nhl ready yet, guy should be in Abbotsford asap.

Watching the Hischier goal.

You know where he is going to shoot before even he decides
The camera is behind him and he is still stuck handling, but yet you see the massive are he is going to shoot guaranteed

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Gent I know who has corporate club seats went. Said it was the worst game he has been to in about 6 years. He goes to about 15-20 games/year.

 

[Jyrki21]

A caller to the post-game, post-mortem show made a valid and interesting point.

For the price of the contract they gave to Debrusk, they could have brought Zadorov back. Ouch!

It's not too late...

 

[Zippgunn]

lol, after 10 games, people were saying trade Demko.

This has "Spencer Martin" written all over it.

Well not quite, to reach Spencer Martin levels of bad he would have to lose at least the next SEVEN games in a row. If I'm Silovs I welcome a change in scenery if the alternative means that I get utterly hung out to dry in every game I play with the big team. Only, what, 3 players weren't minus players last night. Myers, Juulsen even the stars were completely terrible. He has had no support in any of the games he has started. To be sure he has also not made one big save yet this season. Thank the hockey gods for Lanky; it's a different team when he's in the net it seems. Why? Could it be Silovs' fancy shirts (one hater was railing on about them earlier)? My guess is the jerseys; that pukey yellow colour makes me ill, reminds me of bad hockey...

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Hischier has turned into such a weapon.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

I think it's a combination of several things.

They both overachieved to some extent last year. Soucy has never been a consistent top four defenseman until last year and we all know Chaos Giraffe. I think the bigger issue though is they're simply being asked to do far too much because Forbort, Desnarhais and Juulsen and varying levels of useless.

Had we signed say, Tanev to exactly the same contract he got from the Leafs, I all but guarantee Soucy would look perfectly fine as a pseudo #3.

Allvin/Rutherford gambled hard on two project players, especially with Desharnais, and it's looking more and more like they came up snake eyes. At least Forbort is a one year and reasonably buri-able contract. I have no clue what they saw in Desharnais

Problem is management/coaching seems hellbent on stocking the bottom 2 pairings with trees, so they prioritize getting the biggest/heaviest defensemen over the summer. Unfortunately, the big/strong D that is also good at hockey cost a fortune and the Nucks had a very limited number of assets (including cap space), so they had to settle for the big/strong but not good ones.

I guess they saw VD and think they can mold him into a better player, and Forbort is a cheap #6 guy on a 1 year contract so whatever. I'm most shocked that they were conned by Myers to a 3 years deal though. I guess Allvin/JR weren't here for most of Myers' contract with us, but there has got to be somebody remaining in the org that can tell them that Myers is very bad at hockey. He had 1 good season as a pending UFA (which lots of players do), after 5 pretty bad seasons, and decided to commit THREE more years to him? I didn't like that signing at the time and its looking worse and worse every day.

 

[Hansen]

Not sure if I was just too stoned watching a recording of the game late last night at midnight but it felt like there was a new system in place for defending where the 3rd forward back covering with the D was changing and very often it ended up not being the C and the players did not seem sure about where they should be (DeBrusk in particular got totally lost on a few plays).

I also noticed a change in transition where they brought back one of Travis Greens favourite plays to have the puck shot through the neutral zone for a tip by a stationary player at the blue line-- except it was the other dman who was told to blow the zone and deflect it in. This caused more than one odd man rush the other way and had the defender scrambling. I hate these plays where one dman carries the puck to shoot for a deflected dump in because it forces all of the players on the rush to skate to the blueline and then stop and wait, it kills momentum and makes it so much harder to retrieve. I know zone entries have been a problem but they've gotta do better than this.

I also just feel like Petey needs a changeup some how. f***ing anything. Go get in a fight and have a tooth knocked out or get the shit beaten out of him. Slash a guy across the back of the knee. Primal scream into the stands. f***ing anything to get the blood flowing.

 

[rypper]

Luke will switch to 34.

And I am getting more and more convinced every day that this will eventually happen, which will prove Devils fans correct and was likely sealed the day they drafted Luke.

Trying to enjoy Quinn for as long as we have him, but if this team takes a dive in the next few years I don't see him sticking around for the rest of his career. The Devils would be cup contenders by adding him to this lineup.

Careful you're going to send up the guardian bat signal...


I'm confident he'll re-sign here.

 

[theguardianII]

Halloween night came early last night.
Tricks and no treats.
The Devil came to Rogers
EP wearing a Henien costume, a bad one.

NJD eased up but the two teams looked like two different tiers of hockey.

Management destroyed the team identity forged last year and Tocchet's glamour is diminishing.