Oneiro
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Wasn't a Nico skeptic but certainly was a critic and generally agreed that he was overall "disappointing."
Crow tastes so good, man.
Crow tastes so good, man.
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Guadana
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Don't forget about Buffalo. I know, they missed an age of play off, but they really have talent and depth. Im not a fan of some of his picks, but their depth game them a lot of promise. And their defense looks promising too.
Interesting thing we have Luke and Simon and may be Holtz as future "upgrades", but Buffalo and Detroit have longer lists of future upgrades.
Thanks God we have Nico and Jack. No one have a duo of such a great centers. I like Stuzle and Norris, but Nico and Jack are just better.
TrufleShufle
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Vanecek goes down the same day we sign Marty. The hex continues.
It's a standard clause in all of Marty's contracts. We're not allowed to play any other goalies while he's on the team.
They just forgot to take that language out now that he's in management. And apparently his contracts are enforced by voodoo curses.
That comparable to Nathan McKinnon when we signed Nico to his extension is looking very good right now.
Also because a certain someone is never around during the streaks.
Emperoreddy
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I don't think he was as pessimistic in the more competitive years and so complimenting of/worried about our rivals, but one of my earliest memories of him was when he made either a post or a thread about how the Devils could have drafted Anton Volchenkov, but passed up the opportunity to draft him and took David Hale. David Hale was picked one spot behind Volchenkov. Ottawa took him one pick ahead of us, so I'm not sure if we traded back or what. I don't even remember if that was his point or not.
It just so happened that we signed Volchenkov not too many years later and for an unsavory contract and bought him out with one of the amnesty buyouts that they gave every team two of after the 2013 CBA.
He was also very critical of Conte, which he got a lot of shit for early on. I was one of the earlier critics of Conte and called for his removal as early as 2011 or so. And I didn't make many friends around here because of it. It was only a couple of years later before Conte was merely the punchline to a joke around here by the general consensus of this board, even the people who were still pro-Lou staying on as GM of the Devils.
I think I'd rather take another round with the Jon Gillies experience. No thanks.
I definitely have some embarrassing Nico takes from years past, forgive me Swiss King
Nico is evolving into a really special player.
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Guadana
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I like Kakko game btw. I think may be Ovechkin-Jagr is too much, but I have a feeling he could be a great Devil on the wing with Jack or Nico. His puck protection and retrieving game is on the very good level. I have a feeling rangers can't normally develop theirs young forwards
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We are only two points behind Boston for tops of the whole east
Blender
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Brossoit alternates between good NHL numbers and bad ones. Last year was a bad year.
It's getting to be that time of night where I pull up the Sirus app and listen back to the radio call of the final goal.
Shoot, in this case, it will be worth listening back to the entire overtime. Im not a big Sirius fan anymore, but being able to that makes it worth the $ to me.
Shoot, in this case, it will be worth listening back to the entire overtime. Im not a big Sirius fan anymore, but being able to that makes it worth the $ to me.
They just got McAvoy back(naturally he scored tonight), they might run away with the East
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Wonder what the Hamburgler is up to these days
FinnishDevil
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Nah I'm just joking cause why not. He's fine just snakebitten and too big expectations from both Finns and Rags fans when he came to the league.
And I guess your ex was right about him too.
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I don't think he's as bad as Gillies. I think he's more like Keith Kinkaid.
Now, Keith Kinkaid didn't have a bad NHL career for what he was, but he was also out of the league at 30 years old and was really bombing out of the league at age 29, when the Blue Jackets traded for him at the deadline and proceeded to give him exactly 0 starts.
And Laurent Brossoit is now 29 years old. And 2 of his last 3 seasons he's been an .895%. Not to mention that he's coming off an 8 month injury layoff.
So yeah, the difference between the two is that Brossoit had some NHL success and Gillies never has and almost definitely never will, but I'm not sure if Brossoit is currently better than Gillies or not.
If he is then it's probably not by much.
You are certainly looking right about Stutzle over Byfield, while I had that one backwards.
We both had Sanderson over Drysdale. I could not believe that some "experts" omitted Sanderson forom their top 10 lists or, in a couple of instances, out of their top 15. Hopefully the people who consistently misjudge draft-eligible defensemen due to an over reliance on statistics will finally learn from their constantly repeated mistakes.
Here's a quick 2020 re-draft, in my current estimation:
1 Sanderson
2 Stutzle
3 Lundell
4 Raymond
5 Jarvis
6 Guhle
7 Lafreniere
8 Perfetti
9 Drysdale
10 Askarov
11 Mercer
12 Rossi
I personally believe you cannot accurately re-draft until 7-8 years after the initial draft, but it's fun to take stabs at.
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