GDT: Your New Jersey Devils (13-7-2, 28 Pts) @ Washington Capitals (13-5-1, 27 Pts), 7 PM, MSGSN2

[Emperoreddy]

 

[njdevils1982]

Give me your jungle calls!

 

[Better Call Sal]

A degenerate is devastated that that puck didn’t cross the line before the clock hit 0

Yeah, my buddy.

 

[longislanddevil]

One helluva game from Allen. He’s been terrific.

Excellent games from Tatar, Mercer and Siegs (dude is playing like a beast).

The team clearly has commitment in sticking to the defensive structure and blocking shots. The guys are selling out to block shots and that is like night and day from last season. Terrific coaching from Keefe. Couldn’t be more pleased with him.

 

[Killing Joke]

3 in a row against horrible cream of the crap loser suck teams coming up. Hopefully we take down all 3.

I'm so tired of watching the f***in Blues walk into MSG and get NUKED by the Rangers, only to come into Prudential Center reincarnated as the 2019 cup team. I'm pretty sure that has-been trash of yesteryear team lost to the Islanders tonight.

And f*** Nashville. I've been laughing my ass off at that OLD, UFA manufactured mess all season long.

''Did you see what we did? We signed a bunch of 34 year olds! We're contenders now! We even got the 2019 Conn Smythe winner the year before in free agency!''.

I wanna see a Frank Vincent and company on Joe Pesci like beatdown on them on Monday.

1-1-1 it is.

 

[dgibb10]

I think at some point they are going to have to add a middle six forward

Yeah you just get 1 more and then figure out what works best to fill out the top 9 around the big 4 between acquisition, cotter, mercer, tatar, haula, palat, noesen, with the odd man out being pushed to the 4th line, or in Tatar case MAYBE the press box if/when Lazar gets back.

Then I'd still say add a 4C

If we can get an AHL guy to help there in one of these trades as a throw in I think that would be important

 

[Hisch13r]

Really liked the Tatar-Dowling-Cotter line tonight.

Tatar in his non MacDermid minutes this year has been incredible. Outscored 4-0 with him with a 39% CF and 37% xG. Without him he's up 10-3 in goals 56% CF and 57% xG. I still want him moved back up the lineup. He's too good to be on the 4th line.

I think at some point they are going to have to add a middle six forward

I brought up Giroux earlier today. His NMC limits Ottawa's options and lowers the price. If we're on the list I'd love him. Great player, gives some center help, another right shot, good defensively,

 

[Maine Fan]

Thank you None Shall Pass

My browser crashed I did get the score good win.

It will take me days to fix my browser. But I appreciate what you did for me. Later

 

[Devs3cups]

Middle of the road 5 on 5. They gotta change that.

Yup, not too worried about it though, I expect it to get better as they get used to the system and get more practice time. We know that has been pretty rare this season so far.

 

[Bleedred]

1-1-1 it is.

I think we'll go 2-1-0 hopefully.

3-0-0 would be sweet.

 

[BurntToast]

What’s goes into 5v5 gf for? Pot shots, dirty plays, interference?


Caps got what they deserved. They did well 5v5 but got a bunch of penalties and could have had even more.

 

[Hisch13r]

well luckily there was a lot of non 5 v 5 time
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Tatar <3 <3 <3

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

The lines definitely need some fine tuning. Bowers back in for Foote. Team feels like one more well fitting piece away from being very dangerous.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Tatar <3 <3 <3

Amazing what happens when MacDaddy ain’t dragging down quality skaters

 

[Bleedred]

To at least partially interrupt the good vibes, there's a mainboard thread titled ''Has John Hynes improved?'' where the OP has linked search results containing all the shit talking HF has done (many from our board) about Hynes over the last decade.

I haven't stopped laughing since I read that. The thread title wasn't as funny as much as the links to the posts about Hynes slander from the past lol.

 

[Devs3cups]

The lines definitely need some fine tuning. Bowers back in for Foote. Team feels like one more well fitting piece away from being very dangerous.

Didn't mid Foote tonight, but Bowers has more speed.

 

[longislanddevil]

Rachel just called Tomas “Tatar” in post game interview with him. That was funny. Haha

 

[Hisch13r]

Sevo just absolutely broke Martin's ankles in the shootout but then smoked it and sent the shot wide

 

[Comparison Ford]

Let's go get a couple of bottom 6 forwards still if possible

Also if we could get an AHL all star type as a part of one of these trades I think that would be good.

would love to get a bottom 6 center. might be early, don’t think teams are gonna be giving them up just yet.

 

[devilsfan950003]

Thought the Tatar-Dowling-Cotter line played quite well.

Did they play over 10 minutes?

 

[dgibb10]

Middle of the road 5 on 5. They gotta change that.

Meh.

If you look at the individuals you don't get as worried.

everyone around or above 50% 5v5 except dowling, macdermid, and the nemec- casey pairing.

Nemec-Casey got replaced, and you expect dowling and macdermid to be out of the lineup come playoff time

 

[AfroThunder396]

The best thing about these Eastern Conference wins is that they are regulation wins. We are getting leads and holding on to them, which is something the team was terrible at under Ruff. Even 1 goal leads which should feel uncertain end up as regulation wins, which means that the team as a whole is buying in and paying attention to the details.

Additionally, we will be competing with Florida, Carolina, and Washington for position later in the year. Not giving them pity points will be very valuable going forward.

 

[Devs3cups]

Did they play over 10 minutes?

Dowling - 10:34 TOI
Cotter - 11:21 TOI
Tatar - 9:30 TOI

 

[dgibb10]

would love to get a bottom 6 center. might be early, don’t think teams are gonna be giving them up just yet.

I wish we jumped on lars eller

 

[Hisch13r]

Sevo just absolutely broke Martin's ankles in the shootout but then smoked it and sent the shot wide

Thankfully Columbus wins it anyway.