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My3Sons said:
NJ was 2-1-1 against the Caps.
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The there was a reason why at the end of December everyone was excited about the Devils. They were right there with both teams and had won or tied the season series with both. And then everything went to hell.

I feel we are going to look back at this season with regret. This should have been a contention season.
 
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jkrdevil said:
The there was a reason why at the end of December everyone was excited about the Devils. They were right there with both teams and had won or tied the season series with both. And then everything went to hell.

I feel we are going to look back at this season with regret. This should have been a contention season.
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There would for sure be feelings of regret if we didn't get hit by the injury bug big time late in the season. There was a large period of time where we were mostly healthy and our play declined massively. The injuries pretty much absolved the regret feelings because even if we were still rolling along, there's no way we would of overcame all those injuries.

It's nuts how poorly the Capitals are playing.
 
Dialamo said:
There would for sure be feelings of regret if we didn't get hit by the injury bug big time late in the season. There was a large period of time where we were mostly healthy and our play declined massively. The injuries pretty much absolved the regret feelings because even if we were still rolling along, there's no way we would of overcame all those injuries.

It's nuts how poorly the Capitals are playing.
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I think if NJ was healthy all season they would have righted the ship to some degree.
 
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Dialamo said:
There would for sure be feelings of regret if we didn't get hit by the injury bug big time late in the season. There was a large period of time where we were mostly healthy and our play declined massively. The injuries pretty much absolved the regret feelings because even if we were still rolling along, there's no way we would of overcame all those injuries.

It's nuts how poorly the Capitals are playing.
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This is we showed we could elevate our play once the playoffs started. Team played better then they had for months.

I think the injuries legit may have cost us a trip to the ECF which is a hard one to swallow
 
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Dialamo said:
There would for sure be feelings of regret if we didn't get hit by the injury bug big time late in the season. There was a large period of time where we were mostly healthy and our play declined massively. The injuries pretty much absolved the regret feelings because even if we were still rolling along, there's no way we would of overcame all those injuries.

It's nuts how poorly the Capitals are playing.
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I don’t think they were ever healthy post Christmas. It was about that time I think a lot of the depth guys (which was never good) started playing through stuff. Plus Luke who apparently was playing through stuff all year hit a wall. Then you had the virus hit the team and when they recovered the real injuries hit starting with Nico, Jonas and Markstrom.

Edit: I want to say in the Rangers game pre-Christmas Haula blocked a shot and limped off and basically wasn’t the same player after that. He played for about 2 more weeks before leaving the lineup.
 
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I’ll never be able to figure out how we looked like a legit cup contender at Christmas break but fall off to be one of the worst teams in the league after . It wasn’t just injuries . We were healthy when our play started to decline . I think it was the bottom 6 just fell off the face of the planet and contributed nothing
 
Eggtimer said:
I’ll never be able to figure out how we looked like a legit cup contender at Christmas break but fall off to be one of the worst teams in the league after . It wasn’t just injuries . We were healthy when our play started to decline . I think it was the bottom 6 just fell off the face of the planet and contributed nothing
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The catastrophic injuries hadn’t hit yet. But they weren’t healthy IMO. I think some guys were playing through stuff (leading to the bottom 6 falling off the planet) and then you had the 2 weeks of the virus going through the team. Probably would have righted itself, but then the injuries hit.
 
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jkrdevil said:
I don’t think they were ever healthy post Christmas. It was about that time I think a lot of the depth guys (which was never good) started playing through stuff. Plus Luke who apparently was playing through stuff all year hit a wall. Then you had the virus hit the team and when they recovered the real injuries hit starting with Nico, Jonas and Markstrom.

Edit: I want to say in the Rangers game pre-Christmas Haula blocked a shot and limped off and basically wasn’t the same player after that. He played for about 2 more weeks before leaving the lineup.
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Haula was probably plauing hurt well before that. His numbers were really bad for a while.

Bastian was back from his jaw injury but he lost a lot of weight from it.

Then yeah the team was dealing with that virus and soon after that Nico went down which was crippling. Nico was back maybe a week or two and then Jack and Dougie go down for the remainder of the season.

Luke and Pesce were probably playing through something that entire stretch and we know Bratt's shoulder was an issue all year too
 
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