GDT: Your New Jersey Devils (41-30-7, 89 Pts) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (32-35-12, 76 Pts), 7 PM, MSGSN, NHL Network

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Keefe has pretty much admitted the guys are resting up and for example the PK (Bratt) maybe would have blocked that shot if it were a playoff game or other more meaningful game.

"Guys don't want to have a broken foot there"

He sort of summarized the game the way I felt it. Pretty decent 5v5, could have built the lead, special teams faltered but pk wasn't playing full out.

The Dougie news 'officially' (which we guessed) is really positive.
 
Apparently Nemec should be playing though lol. At least one person wasn’t happy with that.


I'm fine with Nemec getting a rep in before the reg season ends, but I think it is pretty clear the staff/org is not seeing Nemec in their future.

What a shame for nemec and it probably stems from a lot from his own doing
1) his what seemed to be entitled attitude this past season
2) his play that isn't backing up his attitude demeanor
3) he went against the advice of the team not to play in that preseason national team game and then injuring himself significantly.
4) Casey comparison.
 
Just looked at the playoff teams, this team is gonna have the second least amount of points of all teams in the playoffs. Only Montreal, with a negative goal deferential, will have less lol. Just god awful since coming back from Xmas.
 
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I'm fine with Nemec getting a rep in before the reg season ends, but I think it is pretty clear the staff/org is not seeing Nemec in their future.

What a shame for nemec and it probably stems from a lot from his own doing
1) his what seemed to be entitled attitude this past season
2) his play that isn't backing up his attitude demeanor
3) he went against the advice of the team not to play in that preseason national team game and then injuring himself significantly.
4) Casey comparison.
Do we know three as a fact? Sounds more like speculation, and they can't really say shit about Nemec playing offseason international games when two of their best players were playing in that contrived Four Nations tournament in season.
 
God I hope that is not true about Nemec. Makes my wish for Cooley even stronger.

The problem is that we blast our prospects in public ways so we can't even get anything for him can we?
 
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To be fair 'we' haven't blasted Nemec publicly, even after he quit on the team in the Winnipeg post-deadline game - the only chatter has been from Nemec himself in an overseas paper with some of his agent-fed soundbytes.
 
Do we know three as a fact? Sounds more like speculation, and they can't really say shit about Nemec playing offseason international games when two of their best players were playing in that contrived Four Nations tournament in season.

There was a tweet awhile ago before he even got injured. I don't know if I will be able to find it, but I remember it said the team had given recommendation not to attend.

But I wouldn't say it is a fact, I'm digging around.
 
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There was a tweet awhile ago before he even got injured. I don't know if I will be able to find it, but I remember it said the team had given recommendation not to attend.

But I wouldn't say it is a fact, I'm digging around.

I thought NHL teams had to give permission to play in IIHF events so if they really wanted him to not play they could have blocked it.
 
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General Manager Tom Fitzgerald is lucky this team made the playoffs or he would have been gone this summer. Known for weak trades and he obviously held onto Ruff for 2 years longer than needed, don't let him off the hook. This team might not see the next level until the right GM is hired.

That being said, Go Devils!
 
God I hope that is not true about Nemec. Makes my wish for Cooley even stronger.

The problem is that we blast our prospects in public ways so we can't even get anything for him can we?

Saying bad things about prospects publicly probably has no effect on their value. Teams do not like to trade their prospects - if they are thinking about doing so, it's obvious that they are not happy with that player. So unless the trade process somehow involves the other team talking about Devils players they are interested in and they land on a prospect, and Fitzgerald pretends that's someone they would never trade, there's going to be some knowledge on the other side that this prospect isn't living up to expectations. Indeed, just looking at Holtz's ice time as a Devil would show that.
 
I thought NHL teams had to give permission to play in IIHF events so if they really wanted him to not play they could have blocked it.

I think that's true, they probably put ball in his court with a recommendation. I can't find the tweet from the past, did a grok search also and it said it didn't find an official statement from team, so I either was going off a rumor or it vaporized.
 
Just looked at the playoff teams, this team is gonna have the second least amount of points of all teams in the playoffs. Only Montreal, with a negative goal deferential, will have less lol. Just god awful since coming back from Xmas.

Sneaking in
 
I don’t really care how we got in, as long as we got in.

And as long as management knows there’s a decent amount of work to be done. This amount of points likely won’t get you in the playoffs next year/most years.

We need to be better next year.

There’s at least three regulars (two minimum I’d really like to see gone), but we’re lucky if only one is gone.

And when I say three regulars I’m not talking about any of the 4th liners, none of whom (other than Cotter I guess) are even signed for next year anyway and will almost assuredly walk.
 
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Watching the highlights, I still think the team played a pretty good game last night.
I see what you are saying but a loss is a loss...Tired of saying yeah we will take that effort most nights we will win when many of these games we have lost....Since that break its like a box of chocolates with this team you never know what you are going to get ....frustrating team this year especially the second half....
 
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