OOT scoreboard 2025 playoff edition

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Who cares about the reg season? Even more worthless when talking about the defending champs. Championship hangover anyone.....and a non division/rival opponent on top of that.

Devs were 2-2 vs the Canes this season. 2-1-1 in 2022/23. How'd those playoff series go again? Even better, that Canes team that embarrassed the Devs went on to get SWEPT by the very Florida Panthers you are mocking. Sooooooo

If you thought Schmid and Vanecek were Cup winning goalies, that's your own issue. They were bound to lose in the 2023 playoffs based on that alone regardless of the roster they had. They almost lost Round 1 to the Rags because of it but Akira somehow matched Igor by the grace of god or else the Devils would've been out in 4 or 5 to them. They could've had the 95 Devils in front of them, they were getting embarrassed regardless when you get below .900 save in today's NHL. Hate people who use the 22/23 Devils post season results as some sort of gotcha towards this core when the skaters weren't the main issue that series.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Sure seems weird for Rantanen/the Rantanen camp to mention the culture and that it didn't feel right being in Carolina....completely omitting the contract piece if that was the case. Canes alluded to similar.

The easy answer is we couldn't agree on terms and leave it as that. That isn't what happened on either side. Then of course you can debate/reference Rantanen's Canes' production combined with interviews where it looked like someone shot his dog.

Dougie situation isn't relevant because of their team structure at the time and the very reason(s) the Devs are likely trying to move him right now with 3 years left. DUH.

It's weird you guys aren't bothering to use the real reason for the cheapo Canes stigma. Guentzel (edit: might have missed this on your OP initially). Difference is now they need to backfill Necas and have the space to do it...which is why they went for Rantanen knowing his public contract demands...and why they tried to trade for Marner allegedly when it didn't workout.

We'll see what happens though. Odds are Marner doesn't go to the Canes obviously, but that's my call.

Them going after Marner would be dumb and foolish so I hope they do it anyway, their goal scoring dries up because of having no alpha superstar to put the team on their back + goalies this late in the playoffs aren't going ot be intimated by their shitty ass shot generation system. Until Rod fixes that, they're never winning shit.

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

just saw the canes 1st goal. That's about as blatant a kick as you can get lol. NHL is a joke

 

[Guttersniped]

If you thought Schmid and Vanecek were Cup winning goalies, that's your own issue. They were bound to lose in the 2023 playoffs based on that alone regardless of the roster they had. They almost lost Round 1 to the Rags because of it but Akira somehow matched Igor by the grace of god or else the Devils would've been out in 4 or 5 to them. They could've had the 95 Devils in front of them, they were getting embarrassed regardless when you get below .900 save in today's NHL. Hate people who use the 22/23 Devils post season results as some sort of gotcha towards this core when the skaters weren't the main issue that series.

I read their board at the time and Canes fans also thought our goaltending was a major issue.

I still remember one commenting that the Devils were going nowhere with either of those goalies, and they were right.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

I read their board at the time and Canes fans also thought our goaltending was a major issue.

I still remember one commenting that the Devils were going nowhere with either of those goalies, and they were right.

As much as Schmid will be a folk hero of sorts for his R1 heroics v NYR and probably should never buy a beer when a Devils fan is around, he was minced meat going into the series v Carolina. The Rags simply didn't test him like Carolina was going to in the following series. The move for Fitz after 2023 was getting a goalie that summer ironically enough Helly would've been a disaster too judging by his playoffs with Winnipeg but maybe a Kuemper type, telling Ruff to go upstairs or go find a HC job if that's what he wanted elsewhere in the league and promote Brunette.

Carolina will always be an issue for teams that don't have clean breakouts or goaltending, we don't have either and thus they always dickslap us in the playoffs/regular season. This year series was an outlier because were outmatched from start but in general lol

 

[NJDevs26]

They wanted to pay Rantanen. They tried, including trading for him knowing how much he wanted...he just didn't like the vibes lol. Dougie was a completely different scenario and not relevant.

We don’t know what they offered, but given their history it probably was a ‘cult discount’ deal and sometimes neither side wants to admit it was about money - the player almost never wants to admit that and any team that trades for a rental won’t admit that either if that was the case cause it would make them look stupid and cheap. I mean he settled on the vibe of Dallas landing in the airport lol

Put it this way I’ll believe they give out a top five contract in the league (or even at their position) when I see it.

 

[FinnishDevil]

You gotta give credit to Carolina for their consistency. Once again on pace for 0 wins in the conference finals.

 

[thebeernerd]

I'd rather have the Canes win this series, but a whopping 16 consecutive losses in the conference final would be very funny.