OOT Scoreboard 2023-24 season - part II

[njdevils1982]

Meh, he's a bum. It's like giving Cam Janssen the light of day as goofy as he was for us.

 

[sabremike]

I'm 2 rows behind the bench in Buffalo tonight. Seeing the game this close always gives me great insights like " dang they're fast," and "Pietrangelo is pretty good."

Can you keep going to games as you appear to be good luck?

 

[My3Sons]

ouch, Marky

When did Gruden switch sports?

 

[glenwo2]

ouch, Marky

Meh.

Lucky-ass shot just sneaked through.

That happens more often to even better goaltenders.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Markstrom tanking his value to facilitate a NJ trade

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Lmao, I loved him but he was such a doofus on the ice. Every time he scored, the clueless look always got me too.

Markstrom tanking his value to facilitate a NJ trade

Nah, we're giving up a haul according to Flames fans

 

[Whaddagoal]

What I don't get recently with this Rempe hysteria, about the league.

The NHL has literally spent the last 10-15 years trying to get fighting minimized out of the game. In fact, so successful up until recently for last many seasons (5)... Hardly any team would employ or even consider employing goons, or at best 4th line gritty would be the best you get.

Reaves and a few others were the single handful of guys left that were considered goons. The role morphed to players like Brendan Smith or other tough minded players that could play the game mostly but didn't mind dishing it out when absolutely needed.

Now with this Rempe kid, the NHL/league (other teams)/Rangers/referee is allowing the blatant staged fights to take center stage again, and all the CTE talk, the headshots, the concern for the players that lost since passed due to CTE suspected (boogard, belak, rypien, etc. RIP, few others im forgetting). It's like the league is pretending they never went through that.

The league,collectively with the teams, looks to me to have thrown out all their signaling and past efforts to go back to the very single thing that was center stage for the CTE/concussions, with headshot hit to the head being second in the totem pole.

Watching the Rempe fight ring ensue and I'm sure now that NJD has MacDermid we will get another before seasons end.

Now - fighting rallies my base energies like any dude watching a rival get pounded, but thinking about the league going back to 20 years ago or more seems to be shocking after about 15 years of "progress" away from this. And make no mistake if Rempe continues this frequency he will be brain toast at some point. Just seems so flagrantly ignoring what they were trying to to achieve from the past mistakes.

Anyway - just a thought that came to me.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

ouch, Marky

The reverse VH SUCKS

 

[NjDevsRR]

Detroit with Kane somehow beating the Rags in round 1 would be spicy

 

[Guttersniped]

You don’t keep Kyle Palmieri when you are rebuilding in 2020. Didn’t understand @New Jersey Devils on that one

Edit: 2021

Are we keeping him against his will?

A bottom feeder doesn’t keep a valuable unsigned UFA if they can’t get an extension done before the TDL. Doing that is grotesquely bad asset management.

Fitzgerald had multiple conversations with Palmieri’s camp about a potential contract extension in recent weeks, but with the two sides not close to an agreement, the GM told the right winger a trade was in the best interest of the organization. Palmieri sat out the team’s past two games while waiting for a trade, and Fitzgerald didn’t want to leave him in limbo too long.

Also missing why we would be happier now with 32 year old RW less productive than Toffoli.

Why Devils’ Tom Fitzgerald traded Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac, and where the team goes from here

New Jersey Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald explains why the team pulled the trigger on trading Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac to the New York Islanders.

www.nj.com

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Detroit with Kane somehow beating the Rags in round 1 would be spicy

Detroit would get mangled by them, they're the worst team in the entire playoffs in both conferences. Every other East team in the playoffs would take NYR to 6-7 easily. I want Pittsburgh to get NYR

 

[Guttersniped]

And he had a dirty charge on Lybushkin(sp) (uncalled of course) who left the game.

This kid will not make it in this league if these shenanigans continue

f*** this nitwit, I hope his brains get scrambled.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Detroit would get mangled by them, they're the worst team in the entire playoffs in both conferences. Every other East team in the playoffs would take NYR to 6-7 easily. I want Pittsburgh to get NYR

I said “Somehow”

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

I said “Somehow”

Ah my fault, read it too fast

 

[NjDevsRR]

f*** this nitwit, I hope his brains get scrambled.

Textbook charging in terms of strides and leaving his feet, and resulting in injury. Will the league do anything? (LOL)

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

Detroit would get mangled by them, they're the worst team in the entire playoffs in both conferences. Every other East team in the playoffs would take NYR to 6-7 easily. I want Pittsburgh to get NYR

They have that Rangers thing going from the last few years where they basically suck ass at 5 on 5 but have great special teams and finishing.

 

[britdevil]

Markstrom .885

 

[Whaddagoal]

Seeing the hit on lybushkin (sp), reminded me of when Nate got railroaded just a few weeks ago, just not in the corner but along the side wall. Rempe tracked parallel to bench to hit bas. At least the hit against Bastian got awarded a headshot match penalty.

The hit on lybushkin seemed like a clear / blatant charge which they rarely call now because most teams don't have doofus guys looking to do this all the time. Guy went full speed from whatever far distance to the corner, no semblence of a let up.

The rangers employing this ogre sized guy for the sake of just injuring guys - just looking to hit hard and is willing to charge across a long enough space for the purpose of a single big hit....with no sense of respect. Either the league has to clamp down on the dangerous hits so players can still play the game as intended.

Or if they let the teams free market the solution by bringing back the goons / enforcers,. Well, they have to decide what to do because CTE will be back in full focus again. They can't have both worlds.

Maybe I answered my own post above, but just the whole situation is very bizarre turn of events and the league better watch it closely.

To me the Rangers employing a guy who clearly is out to hurt people is on them. And it's not about his size ("he can't help it" those fans will claim). There been tons of big guys in the league. Chara, Tyler Myers, Bahl/Dougie (not as heavy), Dustin byfuglien, hal gill, etc. And these guys didn't go out to injure someone every game. Yeah Dustin had some huge hits but they were usually fair game stuff.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

They have that Rangers thing going from the last few years where they basically suck ass at 5 on 5 but have great special teams and finishing.

I just saw their metrics and they're clumped around the Blues, Yotes and Habs. Utterly a joke that they're making the playoffs and we aren't but it is what it is. Detroit screams 17-18 Devils

Markstrom .885

If we legit trade a good package this week for him, I'm out till October lol

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Penguins 3-1 choke in the third with the Flames scoring 2 quick ones

 

[Guttersniped]

I just saw their metrics and they're clumped around the Blues, Yotes and Habs. Utterly a joke that they're making the playoffs and we aren't but it is what it is. Detroit screams 17-18 Devils

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

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Jfc, that's impressive but at the same time they're going to get pumped in the playoffs without a doubt

 

[NjDevsRR]

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Shara GWG with 50 seconds left most likely lol