GDT: New Jersey Devils @ New York Islanders - 7:30pm

[Bleedred]

They’re no Flyers, now that’s a team with a future you can get excited about.



On the Flyers board.

Good call my friend. Very gutsy team coached by Torts, who we never beat no matter where he coaches because he just absolutely refuses to lose to us. That Flyers team is off to a white hot 3-1-0 start and has a better record more wins than the NJD!

 

[Guttersniped]

It's never been less of a power play league.

In 2003 (just picked a random year), 29% of goals were scored on the power play. In 2023, ~21% of goals were. In 1983, ~23% were.

The recent bump in goal scoring is related to effectiveness of PP units. The 2022-23 PP% of 21.31% was 9th highest.

It’s been over 20% for 3 seasons now after not getting that high since 1989-90 (20.77%). It hadn’t gotten over 21% since 1985-86 (22.10%).

That’s why there were more PP goals per game in 2022-23 then in the 12 previous seasons.

There’s also been a new bump in PP opportunities, after about a decade of that being at all time low.

Elite teams have elite power plays. You can’t only rely on that, and occasionally top teams make do with out it, but even if you don’t think we needed an improved PP then you have to admit it’s immensely helpful. (I think we needed it and should have one considering the players we have.)


Edit: Saw this after I wrote this all out lol. I’ve been fixated on Power Plays being about efficiency for a while.

The PP specialist is gone. There’s still way fewer PP opportunities now than in 1990s and way fewer defensemen get some that time.

This is from last year...

https://thehockeynews.com/news/nhl-stat-pack-power-play-scoring-throws-back-to-the-80s

"For the last two seasons, each team was getting 2.89 power plays per game. This year, the number has risen to 3.26, the highest rate since 2013-14.

Power-play efficiency also continues to trend upward. But that has been happening pretty steadily for 25 years, from a low of 15.08 percent in 1997-98.

Still, after hovering around the 20 percent mark for the last five seasons, this year's power-play success rate has jumped to 22.42 percent. It's the fifth-highest conversion rate since this data was first recorded in 1963-64. The other four years were all between 1978 and 1983 — think stand-up goalies and Gretzky setting up teammates from his office behind the net. And they're not much higher: the all-time record is 22.94 percent in 1982-83.

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Happy with the win, worried about Schmid's very bad performance. But I'll just assume it's part of the up and down of the season and hope to see him but a good performance out next time. Sorokin was very good and very lucky on a few of those saves. Definitely feel this one should have had a lot more breathing room but i'll take the two points and move on. Jack Hughes is unreal. He's everything we could have hoped for when we won that lotto pick.

im still skeptical of Schmid!

i think his reaction-time is kinda stinky

 

[HughesCorporation]

Jacks a great skater and a good play makers but hell never be a scorer.

 

[MadDevil]

This was my favorite play from last game

It's over compensation for his wide turns.

 

[Devs3cups]

Schmid will have bad games. He’s a young goalie still learning. It happens.

How quickly people forget he’s most likely the reason why we won the Rangers series. The kid has skill and potential, goalies take more time to develop.

 

[Bleedred]

im still skeptical of Schmid!

i think his reaction-time is kinda stinky

It’s fair to be skeptical because he may have overachieved last season. His reaction time hasn’t been good in his two games in the regular season so far, but I don’t remember it being a problem last year.

Still, I’d rather have him sucking at under a million a year than the former #29 at almost $2.5 million and providing his usual .89x goaltending over his last 80 games played.

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

It’s fair to be skeptical because he may have overachieved last season. His reaction time hasn’t been good in his two games in the regular season so far, but I don’t remember it being a problem last year.

Still, I’d rather have him sucking at under a million a year than the former #29 at almost $2.5 million and providing his usual .89x goaltending over his last 80 games played.

it might just be me or maybe im poor at judging goalies!!

every game of his - i feel hes the opposite of Vanecek in that hes very stoic, always in position and a big body

whereas Vanecek is better at making those scrambling saves and has more pure athleticism i think and quicker reactions, but gets beat cleanly more!

 

[BurntToast]

With advanced stats, it feels people over analyze the game.

Schmid played like a turd, they went down a player and the Devils defense was “meh” at best. You take that win to the bank.

We know they can play better and they still won…

 

[Devs3cups]

With advanced stats, it feels people over analyze the game.

Schmid played like a turd, they went down a player and the Devils defense was “meh” at best. You take that win to the bank.

We know they can play better and they still won…

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They played awesome in the 1st and 2nd. Got a little meh after, but overall that was a very good game for the team. Schmid had a rough one, it happens.

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

They’re no Flyers, now that’s a team with a future you can get excited about.



On the Flyers board.

Well they have scored three short-handed goals tonight.

 

[Guttersniped]

Well they have scored three short-handed goals tonight.

Congratulations

 

[Camille the Eel]

Could be that Schmid just hasn’t played enough steadily as this season starts to get himself sharp. He looked great in camp but the schedule has been so weird starting out and he could be iced with not having seen much game action. He certainly did look really off last night. On that first Nelson shot, it wasn’t so much that he reacted late - rather it looked like he never reacted at all. He had this deer in the headlights look last night that I’ve never seen from him before.

 

[Hisch13r]

Could be that Schmid just hasn’t played enough steadily as this season starts to get himself sharp. He looked great in camp but the schedule has been so weird starting out and he could be iced with not having seen much game action. He certainly did look really off last night. On that first Nelson shot, it wasn’t so much that he reacted late - rather it looked like he never reacted at all. He had this deer in the headlights look last night that I’ve never seen from him before.

I mean it’s not like he got to play steadily last year

 

[Camille the Eel]

I mean it’s not like he got to play steadily last year

He had a ton of action in Utica before and after every stretch here. In effect he was in well tuned game form before we called him up against Ottawa last year and pretty much any time Blackwood was supposed to be healthy we’d send him down and he’d get a ton of steady play there again.

To be sure, we don’t know what’s the difference in him these last 2 games. Could certainly be just an off night or 2.

 

[Devs3cups]

He had a ton of action in Utica before and after every stretch here. In effect he was in well tuned game form before we called him up against Ottawa last year and pretty much any time Blackwood was supposed to be healthy we’d send him down and he’d get a ton of steady play there again.

To be sure, we don’t know what’s the difference in him these last 2 games. Could certainly be just an off night or 2.

Last night was rough, but he was fine in his start against the Coyotes.

 

[Hisch13r]

 

[Devils731]

Watching Luke’s goal, I think you can see that the Isles decided Jack has to be cut off whenever possible at any point of the ice.

Jack’s early career, teams would let him play around from the outside and up high because he wasn’t dangerous until he got inside. Now, Jack is dangerous everywhere, below the goal line, on the half boards, up high, or in the slot; he can create or score a goal from all those spots.

 

[Dialamo]

He was creating chances almost every shift he was on the ice. Reminds me of prime Crosby.

Also at the end: "Hah hah hah, ho ho!" - Dano