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In the meantime, feel free to join our Discord ServerBasically where I'm at.I'm fine with giving Fitz this summer to address the forward depth, although I'm not overly optimistic about it at this point.
Yeah but injuries though.Team record since December..
January: 5-6-3
February: 3-4-0
March: 5-5-0
total of 13-15-3
OOF
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.
Maybe, I guess we'll see in upcoming years. To me Jack, Nico, Bratt, Timo is a solid foundation up front. Whether we like it or not, that's what we have moving forward. Time will tell.You severely overrate the supposed core of the team. Whatever
It certainly looked like he found gems with Cotter and Noesen in the first third of the season.Why should ANYONE have faith in Fitz fixing the bottom 6?
If he drafted properly and knew how to evaluate talent we wouldn’t have to worry about this.We can certainly critique Fitz, but losing players the quality and importance of Hughes, Hams and Siegs is going to ding any team.
Bring back Lou next year
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.Why should ANYONE have faith in Fitz fixing the bottom 6?
It certainly looked like he found gems with Cotter and Noesen in the first third of the season.
I'm sure Nico and Bratt won't take it personally and know that the Devils overall performance is unacceptable.BOO THEM OFF THE ICE PLEASE
I don't care if the players don't deserve it. It's not about booing the players, it's about BOOING THE f***ING PRODUCT.
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.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.
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.We can certainly critique Fitz, but losing players the quality and importance of Hughes, Hams and Siegs is going to ding any team.
He destroyed the bottom 6?The same GM who took a year and a month to replace McLeod after the Team Canada is going to fix the same bottom 6 that he destroyed, lol yeah ok
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.We can certainly critique Fitz, but losing players the quality and importance of Hughes, Hams and Siegs is going to ding any team.
yikes. devils have to win 5 out of next 11 if they want any hope of postseason. im not sure it happensTeam record since December..
January: 5-6-3
February: 3-4-0
March: 5-5-0
total of 13-15-3
OOF