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OOT Scoreboard 2023-24 season - part II

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ZachaFlockaFlame said:
It has nothing to do with that, lmao.
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He’s an okay player with okay speed. I don’t think we’ve missed him a whole lot.

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Bleedred said:
As much as we critique NHL officials, they're job is much more dangerous than the job of the officials in almost any other sport.

Between that and the fact that they have to know how to skate, it makes this job more skilled than that of the other sports.

These guys are not equipped to have that happen to them.
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The most redeeming part is that it forces retirement earlier than the other leagues.
The other leagues suffer a lot from old officials that can't call games anymore but the league cannot do anything about it because of union protections.

Its not as frustrating to watch the games once you realize that most of the calls are intentional game management calls. The refs will always blow another call in your favor soon after the one that makes you go crazy.
 
Torts lost the room after benching Couturier. You can't bench the captain of the team like that. It turned everybody against him.

I don't actually believe that, but I could honestly see that being the narrative. The truth is they were never good enough. They just didn't have the horses.

Couturier's statline is horrendous. 3 points and 0 goals in his last 20 games.
 
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I still can't believe we are not yet eliminated.

The fact that flyers lost a bazillion games was the exact best case scenario we could have hoped for 2 weeks ago and we f***ing chucked that hope our the window.

And now the team is at the edge of the abyss but not quite out.
 
Whaddagoal said:
I still can't believe we are not yet eliminated.

The fact that flyers lost a bazillion games was the exact best case scenario we could have hoped for 2 weeks ago and we f***ing chucked that hope our the window.

And now the team is at the edge of the abyss but not quite out.
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We’d actually hold Metro 3 if we didn’t blow those 3 3rd period leads. Crazy

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NjDevsRR said:
We’d actually hold Metro 3 if we didn’t blow those 3 3rd period leads. Crazy

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That is definitely the definition of shooting yourself in the foot.

Metro is ridiculous. Don't think we've seen a shittier attempt by all these teams to get into the playoffs.
 
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Goptor said:
You guys are crazy to think the team ever had a chance once Green was made coach.
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The media told me he was a great hockey mind tho.

And that Seattle would love to hire him if Benning didn't hurry up and get a deal done.

I swear that guy at this point is almost as hated in Vancouver as Messier.
 
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Happy for Yegor, but same exact player there as he was here. We saw a similar season in 21-22 where he had 24 goals and 46 pts in 76 gms, with a high shooting percentage.

No surprise he has 6 more goals when he has a 4-5% HIGHER shooting percentage this year than in 21-22.

Problem for him is he still barely gets 2 shots per gm. Thats not good for a top liner. As long as that stays the same he will be inconsistent in production as he relies on an unsustainable shooting %. He will prob score less next season if that doesn’t change. One can bookmark this post in case I need to eat crow. But I doubt it.

He doesn’t fit on our top 6 here. As for bottom 6, I wouldn’t have mind keeping him for that but he wouldn’t have done much in that role. Yegor being on a rebuilding team is perfect for him. He can get those top line minutes without being a detriment to the forward group.
 
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crashline said:
Ladies and gentlemen your new thirty goal scorer and pride of Belarus ...

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I love the guy. I don't think he ever got the full experience with us, but at the same time, is he a top 6 guy with our roster? Prob not. But I'd love him for our 3rd line.
 
Devilsfan992 said:
Those are some terrible losses. Worse than us.
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On one hand they are, but on the other hand the fact that they were in a playoff spot for most of the year was one of the most improbable occurrences that could have happened in the league this year.

What we may be seeing now is the market correction.

There’s a lot of market correcting going on around the East bubble right now. Detroit is another example. The Capitals current 5 game losing streak. A lot of this is regression to the mean. The Penguins current winning streak is another thing, but on the other end. That’s progression to the mean.

The Pens aren’t a cup caliber team or even a threat in the playoffs in my mind, but they’re probably a top-8 team in the East on paper and they have better metrics than those other teams. The Flyers had them for the better part of the season, but that felt like overachievement in itself.

And a lot of people don’t like Sullivan, but he’s better than guys like Roy, Dr. Evil, and the rookie Caps head coach.

Torts is good, but his roster sure ain’t.
 
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Bleedred said:
On one hand they are, but on the other hand the fact that they were in a playoff spot for most of the year was one of the most improbable occurrences that could have happened in the league this year.

What we may be seeing now is the market correction.

There’s a lot of market correcting going on around the East bubble right now. Detroit is another example. The Capitals current 5 game losing streak. A lot of this is regression to the mean. The Penguins current winning streak is another thing, but on the other end. That’s progression to the mean.

The Pens aren’t a cup caliber team or even a threat in the playoffs in my mind, but they’re probably a top-8 team in the East on paper and they have better metrics than those other teams. The Flyers had them for the better part of the season, but that felt like overachievement in itself.
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I agree. I just wish we'd have that market correction like the Penguins
 
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Better Call Sal said:
I liked Boqvist a lot, but I’m fairly positive that he wasn’t qualified because it was likely he wanted another opportunity to begin with.

Knowing how things shook out with losing McLeod and all the injuries we had, losing him definitely stung. He’s a solid player, versatile, good skater and good hands.
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Mgd31 said:
Yea I don’t think he wanted to come back anyway
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I also thought Boqvist wanted a shot at more opportunity elsewhere when it happened, but I later read that he was surprised and disappointed by the move, so that was a Devils decision.

I searched for an article with him talking about it but couldn’t dig one up.
 
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SteveCangialosi123 said:
He’s an okay player with okay speed. I don’t think we’ve missed him a whole lot.

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It has to do with the mentality that they thought they had to get heavier in the bottom 6 and in general after getting curb stomped by Carolina instead of just keeping up with the great team speed they had in 22/23. They went too far to the opposite to correct an issue in a series that wasn't a big deal with how that season went. Also why the comparison with a guy who was already on 22-23 NJ? I never said Lazar was an issue, guys like Nosek and other slow skating bums that they trotted around in the bottom 6 were 100% an issue whether you like or not.

Guttersniped said:
I also thought Boqvist wanted a shot at more opportunity elsewhere when it happened, but I later read that he was surprised and disappointed by the move, so that was a Devils decision.

I searched for an article with him talking about it but couldn’t dig one up.
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I highly doubted he wanted to leave, he had random spurts of top 9 play on NJ last year. It was all about getting heavier on the wings after the Carolina massacre.
 
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ZachaFlockaFlame said:
It has to do with the mentality that they thought they had to get heavier in the bottom 6 and in general after getting curb stomped by Carolina instead of just keeping up with the great team speed they had in 22/23. They went too far to the opposite to correct an issue in a series that wasn't a big deal with how that season went. Also why the comparison with a guy who was already on 22-23 NJ? I never said Lazar was an issue, guys like Nosek and other slow skating bums that they trotted around in the bottom 6 were 100% an issue whether you like or not.
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He played 4 regular season games with us. The point was to show we didn’t lose some burner, we lost a guy with decent speed. We can’t possibly be acting like replacing Boqvist with a far more established player like Nosek was some stupid move. He was injured all year and is now starting to look quite good. He PKs and is a center.

McLeod vanishing had 1000 times the impact on our team speed than not bringing Boqvist back.
 
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Guttersniped said:
I also thought Boqvist wanted a shot at more opportunity elsewhere when it happened, but I later read that he was surprised and disappointed by the move, so that was a Devils decision.

I searched for an article with him talking about it but couldn’t dig one up.
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Appears you're right, this was the most I could find though:

"My first thought was to stay (in New Jersey), but stuff happened, and now I'm here, and I'm happy."
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