GDT: New Jersey Devils @ Buffalo Sabres, 24/03/2023, 7:00 PM, MSG, MSG-B

[Emperoreddy]

 

[R8Devs]

I'd say the Devils should try a Tatar-Hischier-Meier line out.

Tatar-Hischier-Meier
Haula-Hughes-Bratt
Palat-Boqvist-Mercer
Shara-Mcleod-whoever

or
Tatar-Hischier-Meier
Palat-Hughes-Bratt
Boqvist-Haula-Mercer
Shara-Mcleod-whoever

 

[Bleedred]

Look, I find myself pretty easy to get along with (until I piss you off for talking shit about your favorite goalie) but I feel there's some weirdo's in here that aren't really active posters, but pretend to be fans of this team, along with the Islanders and Rangers.

Unless that was some kind of an accidental drunk post wandering over to the Rangers forum to talk about how ''We lost da game'' and thought they were on the Devils (or Islanders forum) forum.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Games like this remjnd me why it's a blessing weed is legal in NJ

 

[Whaddagoal]

Haula Hughes Mercer isn’t working. Reunite the top 6 and just let Meier cook with them.

90 13 91
96 86 63
18 56 70
17 20 25/44/14

I also like having Sharangovich in the lineup. Even 4th line. Dude is a FANTASTIC PKer.

Rango has been rocking last few games. I actually think he has made McLeod, of all people, more dangerous. He also looks like the good Yegor or how we have seen him so his confidence is up a lot. Maybe the TDL run up madness had gotten him worked up before and he fell off his game

It may be worth keeping him on the 4th line for that alone. He is still getting some good looks there (to my surprise!)

 

[TF1970]

Very odd. But he’s right they were absolutely not ready to play.

 

[Satans Hockey]

I agree its a bit odd. He has had some great looks and has been snakebitten as Hughes has been before the slumpbuster tonight. It'll come. Maybe hes saving for the playoffs. Haha.

He's also a - 4 in these 9 games, I'd like to see him get it going before the playoffs begin.

 

[Bleedred]

Schmid is 2-0-0 against the Senators this year. The first win was his first ever win, which was a relief win, if you remember, where he killed off a 4 on 3 penalty in OT. I think Vitek tweaked something and he had to come in and close out the game. It was in the middle of the 13-0-0 streak.

He deserves a chance to bounce back, as he's played some great goal for us this year, even with the 3 goal on 7 shot (and probably GAA of 21 lol) half a period tonight.

Whether that's tomorrow or another night, this is not the time to throw him overboard. And by overboard I mean back to the AHL.

He's still the second best goalie in the organization and has the potential to be the best.

 

[NHL Fanatik]

Games like this remjnd me why it's a blessing weed is legal in NJ

Mainly just to spin it into a 'well I guess I really dont care that much!' type thinking lol

 

[NjDevsRR]

Games like this remjnd me why it's a blessing weed is legal in NJ

 

[Emperoreddy]

Opposite of hype

 

[Satans Hockey]

Lukey is a great keeper. To call him bad is unreasonable. He beat us - take it

"us" "Okposofan"

 

[Bleedred]

"us" "Okposofan"

He just posted on the Rangers board on Tuesday ''I can't believe we lost da game''.

He's been on here lately talking like he's a Devils fan, which is weird because he was an Islanders fan (that's where the Okposo alias obviously came from, not the Sabres) but now he's jumped ship to the Devils? Or he's watching the Devils, despite the Islanders having a game at the same time?

And then the weird comment on the Rangers board, pretty much implicating himself as a Rangers fan, unless he's gonna claim that was a drunk drive by and he thought he was on the Devils forum, only we didn't lose our last game before that post lol.

I'm not one to call the fan police on posters or even snoop through their posts for little to no reason, but I was curious, as I knew he was an Islanders fan at one point. It wasn't too many posts back where he's posting on the Rangers board and couldn't believe ''we'' lost to the Canes the first time they played them this week.

Just saying that's kinda sus...... as the young folks would say.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Look, I find myself pretty easy to get along with (until I piss you off for talking shit about your favorite goalie) but I feel there's some weirdo's in here that aren't really active posters, but pretend to be fans of this team, along with the Islanders and Rangers.

Unless that was some kind of an accidental drunk post wandering over to the Rangers forum to talk about how ''We lost da game'' and thought they were on the Devils (or Islanders forum) forum.

Ive come to a similiar conclusion. Not about that poster (lol, it is still funny) but about some other drive by posters that usually swing in during the less than glorious losses. And shitpost or rant, and come back mainly in the next loss.

But imagine wasting time of your own life coming in here only pretending to be a fan. Takes it to another level.

 

[Devs3cups]

Opposite of hype

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Smiling Friends. Absolute classic. Season 2 about to be a blast.

 

[Bleedred]

Ive come to a similiar conclusion. Not about that poster (lol, it is still funny) but about some other drive by posters that usually swing in during the less than glorious losses. And shitpost or rant, and come back mainly in the next loss.

But imagine wasting time of your own life coming in here only pretending to be a fan. Takes it to another level.

We literally had one show up tonight for the first time since opening night.

It’s hilarious how you don’t come back at all for our best season in how many years? And then resurface 72 games later during arguably one of our lousiest games of the year.

 

[NjDevsRR]

We literally had one show up tonight for the first time since opening night.

It’s hilarious how you don’t come back at all for our best season in how many years? And then resurface 72 games later during arguably one of our lousiest games of the year.

Oh? Who

 

[Whaddagoal]

We literally had one show up tonight for the first time since opening night.

It’s hilarious how you don’t come back at all for our best season in how many years? And then resurface 72 games later during arguably one of our lousiest games of the year.

And rants are fine, im all for getting pissed off as a poster, its sports and it happens and expected even.....but they dont show up in wins!!

 

[Homedresser]

There's a reason these teams have 25 or 27 fewer points than us.

We need to beat them.

If we lose to them and the Rangers win, we're setting ourselves up for battling the Rangers head to head for second place on Thursday night.

Yeah, they'll clinch us a spot and then they'll be right in our tails.

Win the f***ing game.

 

[longislanddevil]

Someone can look it up because I'm too lazy, but has the mercer + Hughes ever really worked? It feels to me like it hasn't

I have never felt like Hughes and Mercer mesh well together. I’d like to see him back with Nico. They have some serious chemistry.

 

[Incharge1976]

TG always posts shit like that , even when he was covering the Devils. He would always include a small negative tidbit as a backhanded dig on the team. Closet Rags fan .
He is a good reporter but always had small negative little jabs to throw out there where you could tell he has something afpgqinst the Devils. He did admit at one point to be a Rags fan back in his day.

He's not wrong. They have been playing like crap for awhile.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

I only saw the 3rd and the called back goal but seems like if not for a crappy start we woulda won.

 

[glenwo2]

This was perhaps the most aggravating loss I've ever experienced this season.

 

[TF1970]

Prolly have to just reunite that Tatar-Hischier-Mercer line then attempt to find some other combos that work outside of that one.

 

[NjDevsRR]

He's not wrong. They have been playing like crap for awhile.

Still well above expected differential while “playing like crap for awhile”

What we are going through now is not like December or January, folks. Keep playing at this level (without nights off like tonight) and they will win more than lose. Plus, it was literally our toughest two week stretch with little rest.