RD Simon Nemec (2022, 2nd, NJD)

[FlyguyOX]

If the team can't develop him properly then they need to trade him to a team that will. This is ridiculous.

Yeah somehow he was one of the teams best D-man last year but is now garbage?…

 

[Jersey Fresh]

The "toxicity" has seemingly not affected Luke Hughes or Seamus Casey. Weird.

 

[FlyguyOX]

What part of the Devils is toxic?

Played 1st game since the break, it didn’t go well, and now getting healthy scratched. Apparently no room for a top young prospect to have a bad game and learn from it?

The "toxicity" has seemingly not affected Luke Hughes or Seamus Casey. Weird.

Does Luke Hughes get benched after his bad games?

 

[Forge]

Played 1st game since the break, it didn’t go well, and now getting healthy scratched. Apparently no room for a top young prospect to have a bad game and learn from it?

Would probably have more leeway if they didn't have someone like Casey breathing down his neck. That's mostly just a bit of bad luck for Nemec in that regard. The devils don't have to suffer through his downs and the team is trying to win.

 

[De Montreal]

A sophomore season at 20/21 year old after missing camp because of an injury is a terrible sample to take conclusions from

He looked good in his rookie season and ever before for a reason, he’s talented and he will figure it out in the next few years

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Played 1st game since the break, it didn’t go well, and now getting healthy scratched. Apparently no room for a top young prospect to have a bad game and learn from it?


Does Luke Hughes get benched after his bad games?

You'll notice, the Devils are actually trying to win hockey games. They aren't the Flyers or Montreal. They're going to play the players that give them the best opportunity to do that. Nemec has played 12 games at the NHL level this season and frankly has been pretty bad in most of them. Nemec got sent down, complained about it, and proceeded to shit the bed badly when he got called back up. Casey was always going to get his shot after that, and in this one game has shown more than Nemec has all year. It's that simple. Will that always be the pecking order? Who knows, Nemec has the draft pedigree, but at this point that's all in the rear view mirror.

It's up to him to channel that disappointment the right way and work on his game. I hope he doesn't have the same sense of entitlement his fans in here seem to. He has to earn it.

 

[Hisch13r]

The "toxicity" has seemingly not affected Luke Hughes or Seamus Casey. Weird.

If anything Nemec seems to be the “toxic” one. From the outside he seems like a whiny entitled baby.

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

I like Nemec still but, Casey comes back into the lineup today after tearing up the AHL until an injury kept him out of action for a month or so. Casey scored a beauty of a goal and has 4 goals in 9 NHL games. Casey has some great offensive skill and great skating ability. Nemec has good competition kicking him out of the NHL lineup...

 

[Bone Density]

...Reinbacher's struggles were with an injury...the Habs will at least wait and see if he's back to NHL shape...

We don't really need RD. Ideally a 3C who can slot in as a 2C or a scoring winger.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

He's going to be a good player despite some Montreal fans thinking that disparaging him on here will somehow make him available for a trade.

Yeah, it's our fault, he's probably bad on the ice, because of us... Your coach is a Habs fan too.

Nemec for Reinbacher? Two struggling high picks?

Since when Reinbacher is struggling ? He barely played in the AHL...