GDT: Preseason Hockey! Game #2 - Your New Jersey Devils vs. New York Islanders, 7 PM, MSGSN

[forceten]

Geertsen with the confused face. He'd be a meme king if he was a regular for sure.

 

[Saugus]

Dougie probably could have gotten a good shot off there, and Hughes may have been expecting him to. That's why he fanned on it so ridiculously.

 

[njdevils1982]

I keep seeing the number 5 and getting Colin White flashbacks.

tell it to bleed and we'll get a nice rant on him

 

[Emperoreddy]

Too much man? Fire Ruff right now

 

[Emperoreddy]

Also we didn't sort it out after the break. It's a new era

 

[njdevils1982]

toto africa

 

[My3Sons]

Would've liked him to get the opportunity to get a shot off on the PP.

He looked good to me on the bit of PP he had. Confident handling and a nice stretch pass and good defensive coverage. No panic and he showed all the skills a defender needs. Good work from him.

 

[pulkit1989]

How are the Devils looking? Just got in from work. Has anyone noticed any changes to our overall defence structural play?

 

[RNCDevil]

As I was thinking of the "non-locks" I forgot about Foote, Halonen, and Boqvist. I'll remove Tatar as a lock, so for 4 spots you have Tatar, Johnsson, Holtz, Zetterlund, Boqvist, Foote, Halonen, McLeod, Bastian, and Geertsen. What a logjam. Who makes an impact, even if they are not scoring? Who makes the team better?

 

[DerekDevils30]

toto africa

Wanna slow dance?

 

[My3Sons]

As I was thinking of the "non-locks" I forgot about Foote, Halonen, and Boqvist. I'll remove Tatar as a lock, so for 4 spots you have Tatar, Johnsson, Holtz, Zetterlund, Boqvist, Foote, Halonen, McLeod, Bastian, and Geertsen. What a logjam. Who makes an impact, even if they are not scoring? Who makes the team better?

Clearly Geersten.

 

[Hisch13r]

As I was thinking of the "non-locks" I forgot about Foote, Halonen, and Boqvist. I'll remove Tatar as a lock, so for 4 spots you have Tatar, Johnsson, Holtz, Zetterlund, Boqvist, Foote, Halonen, McLeod, Bastian, and Geertsen. What a logjam. Who makes an impact, even if they are not scoring? Who makes the team better?

I don't see any of Foote, Halonen, or Geertsen as options. Halonen did look good last night but there's too many guys. I'd put Thompson over those 3.

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

My brief notes from tonight:

Haula has more skill than i was expecting, even if ignoring the goal.

Holtz looks ready.

Nemec needs AHL time to get used to NA pro quickness and physicality.

I still don’t know if Palat’s game meshes with Hughes and Holtz, but his skating does not look out of place at all. I expected him to be slower.

Hiring Brunette will be the best move Fitz made this summer.

 

[forceten]

I liked Halonen's compete last night, but it was a pre-season game.

 

[Devs3cups]

He looked good to me on the bit of PP he had. Confident handling and a nice stretch pass and good defensive coverage. No panic and he showed all the skills a defender needs. Good work from him.

100% agreed. I just wish Wood could've given him the puck again for a one-timer!

 

[My3Sons]

My brief notes from tonight:

Haula has more skill than i was expecting, even if ignoring the goal.

Holtz looks ready.

Nemec needs AHL time to get used to NA pro quickness and physicality.

I still don’t know if Palat’s game meshes with Hughes and Holtz, but his skating does not look out of place at all. I expected him to be slower.

Hiring Brunette will be the best move Fitz made this summer.

All good thoughts.

 

[Bone Density]

toto africa

Hobo's - Erika

 

[MauDevils]

Haula having a great game.

 

[Hisch13r]

My brief notes from tonight:

Haula has more skill than i was expecting, even if ignoring the goal.

Holtz looks ready.

Nemec needs AHL time to get used to NA pro quickness and physicality.

I still don’t know if Palat’s game meshes with Hughes and Holtz, but his skating does not look out of place at all. I expected him to be slower.

Hiring Brunette will be the best move Fitz made this summer.

I think Palat makes sense there. I've always thought he belonged with Jack rather than Nico.

 

[Bone Density]

Schmid looks dialed in at least. The rest...meh

 

[My3Sons]

I liked Halonen's compete last night, but it was a pre-season game.

He played hard. Hard to say in a scrappy game with few NHL players how he will look playing with players he’d mesh with.

 

[forceten]

Nemec with the physical close-out on the board, then skate out. He's going to be very good.

 

[njdevils1982]

Wanna slow dance?

no

but play some roxy music and we'll talk

 

[DerekDevils30]

Like seeing Nemec hard on the puck there. Islander draped all over him and he didn’t panic and cough it up.

 

[I Hate Tie DOMI]

Did Dano just Ctl+Alt+Delete?