GDT: Hurricanes @ Devils - 3:00 PM - MSGSN

[Devs3cups]

We didn't control play in this game at all. We lost the xGF at ES and 5v5.

Yeah seriously what game was he watching lol, we got our ass kicked today

He was talking about the Boston games, where we did control play.

 

[Bleedred]

Truth be told though, strangely Mikey's been better than expected this season and Bratt has been kinda disappointing.

He hasn't been bad, but I think he's been reverting back to what he is, along with Wood in this recent stretch since Bastian has been out.

I'm pretty sure Bastian is the best player on that line and then it's Wood.

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

I won't, you watch them, but don't fool yourself they are going nowhere guaranteed.... cheers to you bro

Take a deep breath maybe two...Take a shot or a beer or whatever makes you calm down goosfraba....Last year we were toast don't even get a point.....

 

[billingtons ghost]

Bummer, bc I thought they all played a really good game.

A couple of terrible penalties, a couple of terrible turnovers, a bad pinch and a heartbreaking gaffe by Blackwood. We got dominated and didn't have a shot for almost a period of play, but we played a complete game, stole a point.

Outside of that, the big three were pretty good, Rango looked good, the rest battled and were meh.

Raanta gave us a few softies.

I think we are going to have to get used to Bratt being invisible until he explodes.

Outside of Bahls pinch and Graves going down early, thought the D played a pretty heroic game. Forwards were pretty good too.

Sucks we lost but this one really is a character builder.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Every shootout attempt.

Defender starts at the other team's blueline from a cold start after you touch the puck and tries to stop you. Put it in the rulebook Gary.

 

[glenwo2]

Very pleased that the Devils at least got a point out of this.

Also very pleased that Jesper Bratt decided to come out of hibernation.

Now let's get some momentum going.

(oh and I hate the gimmick with a passion)

 

[Puckclektr]

Outside of Blackwood Hughes and Bratt the rest of the team was to blame tonight. Stop blaming Blackwood and the stripes.

 

[Devs3cups]

Again, we're still battling in 1 goal games. No one is running us over like last year. This is progress for a young team. They showed resiliency today and got a point against arguably the hottest team in the league. 3 points out of the last 4.

 

[Puckclektr]

I won't, you watch them, but don't fool yourself they are going nowhere guaranteed.... cheers to you bro

Nobody expected them to even be in this position in the standings at this time.

 

[Okposofan21]

Matt Loughlin takes these loses harder then the fans. I said hello to him and he said “get lost ya jerk”

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

Outside of Blackwood Hughes and Bratt the rest of the team was to blame tonight. Stop blaming Blackwood and the stripes.

This is hilarious. No, the guy that literally gave the other team a free goal contributed to the L. That he did his job okay other than that doesn’t erase that. Pathetically low expectations for that bum.

 

[Triumph]

Officials were a joke again tonight, but what's especially bad is that embellishment call - you really think defensemen are going to try to flop to draw calls in tied games, when officials don't call penalties? It's absurd and it's an official inventing to a way to stop play without 'changing the game', except that 4v4 is so much different than 5v5 that it's a huge change to the game. Just call the f***ing rulebook.

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

Again, we're still battling in 1 goal games. No one is running us over like last year. This is progress for a young team. They showed resiliency today and got a point against arguably the hottest team in the league. 3 points out of the last 4.

 

[billingtons ghost]

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Very good game played by Blackwood today. Don't understand why some of you people insist that he's so bad. Especially that f***in idiot @Bleedred who doesn't know shit about goalies. If the guy was so bad, we wouldn't be giving him starts. Do you really think our staff and management are clowns, now do you?

Oh and hello fellow Devils fans. I'm new here. My user name is Blackwoodd. Looking forward to conversing with all of you here. But don't come at me with some dumb shit about how our very good 26 year old goalie with elite upside is a piece of shit or not NHL caliber or you want Schmid or Vanecek or any other nonsense and shit you talk about the best goalie in the organization. Bad goalies don't have games like he had today.

Not saying he's good.
Not saying we should keep or sign him.

But man, you really go above and beyond sometimes.

 

[Dylan9z9]

Nobody expected them to even be in this position in the standings at this time.

all good we will see where they end up

 

[Puckclektr]

This is hilarious. No, the guy that literally gave the other team a free goal contributed to the L. That he did his job okay other than that good doesn’t erase that. Pathetically low expectations for that bum.

I disagree. It was a bad play. But like I said earlier and got attacked for it by people who hate Blackwood, was the fact the Jack Who is one of the best in the league at controlling the puck, loses the puck and the goalie whose job is too make saves and not race out and shoot the puck out of safety is the one who got blamed.

 

[Devs3cups]

all good we will see where they end up

You can keep saying that but if they get just out of the playoff race it'll still be progress and pretty much aligned with what most people's expectations were when the season started.

 

[billingtons ghost]

This is hilarious. No, the guy that literally gave the other team a free goal contributed to the L. That he did his job okay other than that doesn’t erase that. Pathetically low expectations for that bum.

You could say he's the Severson of goalies, I guess. One brainfart amongst a really strong performance that stole a point for them.

It'll be good when both are gone.

Of course, Hughes losing the puck off the heel of his stick at his own blueline was kinda the cause

 

[Bleedred]

Not saying he's good.
Not saying we should keep or sign him.

But man, you really go above and beyond sometimes.

That wasn't even me, you seen the guy, new user Blackwoodd

I don't have a Blackwood avatar!

 

[Camille the Eel]

Where did I say I'm blaming him? I'm not blaming him for the loss. Just saying he does this move way too much in shootouts, hell he did in when he had the penalty shot this season too.

His speed is such an advantage and he doesn't use it, it just doesn't make sense.

Jack is at his best going full tilt at the goalie and using his hands and speed to have an advantage. He can act faster than the goalie can react. Every time. That’s why slowing down and fiddling and diddling makes no sense for him.

If he was going to pull up and shoot, however, he did do one thing better though and make his cut and move further out, before he got too deep. But really he didn’t have a lot to shoot at when he let it go.

 

[Puckclektr]

all good we will see where they end up

Why are you so negative? Are you routing for them to suck. Seriously sometimes I feel like this place is just filled with 12 year olds.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

You could say he's the Severson of goalies, I guess. One brainfart amongst a really strong performance that stole a point for them.

It'll be good when both are gone.

Severson is an average NHL defenseman. Blackwood is one of the worst goalies in the league.

 

[billingtons ghost]

That wasn't even me, you seen the guy, new user Blackwoodd

I don't have a Blackwood avatar!

Lol. You're the best @Bleedred

 

[Guttersniped]

I would say he had a bigger ceiling, but it doesn't look like he'll hit that ceiling.

There was a time where Michael McLeod had a MUCH higher ceiling than Jesper Bratt, but that definitely won't be hit.

You say that but it’s not actually true. Bratt was very boom or bust, he went late because the bust part was a very real possibility.

McLeod was a center with size and speed who could end up in a lot of roles in the NHL, including the one he currently occupies.

Bratt is undersized scoring winger. Either Bratt produces enough, soon enough, to make it as a top six guy in the NHL or he would’ve ended up playing in Sweden. There’s no other role for him and teams aren’t always patient with smaller European forwards drafted outside of the 1st round. (McLeod had more rope in the sense that all 1st picks get more rope but that didn’t make his ceiling higher than Bratt’s.)

I don’t know what Vanacek’s ceiling was supposed to be when he was a prospect but he was drafted at 39th in 2014 and Blackwood was drafted at 42nd in 2015. I don’t know if I see some difference between pedigrees.

 

[Devs3cups]

I disagree. It was a bad play. But like I said earlier and got attacked for it by people who hate Blackwood, was the fact the Jack Who is one of the best in the league at controlling the puck, loses the puck and the goalie whose job is too make saves and not race out and shoot the puck out of safety is the one who got blamed.

That's kind of the point though. Jack, who's the best at controlling the puck, makes a mistake after playing light's out these last few weeks. Mac has played horrible for over a year and a half and he does this. It's getting tiring, there's no progress, there's no good play to rely upon. It's not one mistake in a huge sample size of good play. It's a horrible mistake in a sea of bad games. We're getting tired of this. I have no doubt that if Vitek plays today, we win.