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What happened to pre-Christmas Luke ?
He was a force on the ice both offensively and defensively . Now ? He has to be fighting a nagging injury or ran out of gas or ???
 
Devs3cups said:
I think they can still get there, the core is still pretty young and they have solid pieces coming along soon. But yeah, imo the top end is solid, but they don't have enough talent surrounding that top talent.

Fix the bottom-6 and I'm pretty convinced we're in 2nd in the division right now. They just don't get production from the bottom of the lineup at all.
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I don't see fixing the bottom 6 being that easy. Ideally we have guys in the system already that can step in next year but everyone either sucks or won't be there yet, aside from Gritsyuk hopefully.
 
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devilsblood said:
We can certainly critique Fitz, but losing players the quality and importance of Hughes, Hams and Siegs is going to ding any team.
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If he drafted properly and knew how to evaluate talent we wouldn’t have to worry about this.

If he used the available cap space to get someone like Cozens we wouldn’t be using the injuries as an excuse, because that’s all it is given how their bad play started back in Dec when they were healthy.
 
ZachaFlockaFlame said:
Why should ANYONE have faith in Fitz fixing the bottom 6?
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I mean, I don't know if I have absolute faith in him, I'm just not as done with him as some. I also don't think anyone coming in would do a better job.

I don't necessarily have a lot of faith, I'm just willing to give him another summer.
 
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Sportsnet color guy “ Devils are a dangerous team , with talented guys like Hischier Hughes Bratt HAULA”
As soon as he says Haula , I knew that this guy has not watched one second of Devils hockey in the past 3 years
 
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Cheddabombs said:
I don't see fixing the bottom 6 being that easy. Ideally we have guys in the system already that can step in next year but everyone either sucks or won't be there yet, aside from Gritsyuk hopefully.
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I think it can be done. Other than Cotter, Glass and Mercer (if he's even seen as bottom-6). You get rid of everyone.
 
devilsblood said:
We can certainly critique Fitz, but losing players the quality and importance of Hughes, Hams and Siegs is going to ding any team.
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That's the other thing. While it's easy to just write it up as an excuse, you can't subtract a team's best offensive player, best offensive defenseman, and best defensive defenseman and expect things to work like they should.
 
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devilsblood said:
We can certainly critique Fitz, but losing players the quality and importance of Hughes, Hams and Siegs is going to ding any team.
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The team probably should have had more points before all the injuries. The team had incredible injury luck until January. And it turned out that the Markstrom injury was basically meaningless, as goaltending was as good as it had been all season in his absence. And now it's at its worst since he came back.

Those injuries will probably be the difference between getting into the playoffs and not very convincingly, and just barely missing the playoffs if we do.
 
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