GDT: Your New Jersey Devils @ Anaheim Ducks, 10 PM EST, MSGSN

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Moneypuck playoff odds actually went up slightly. Flyers got destroyed. Flyers are riding Errson in net and have no viable backup. This isn't over.

 

[NJDevs26]

I actually would put better odds on a team around us going on a run than I would the Flyers making it or us being the ones to go on a run.

 

[forceten]

Moneypuck playoff odds actually went up slightly. Flyers got destroyed. Flyers are riding Errson in net and have no viable backup. This isn't over.

Reality says hello:

Eastern	GP	W	L	OTL	Pts	ROW	GF	GA	Diff	Home	Road	Last 10	Streak

Tampa Bay 7	62	32	24	6	70	30	210	210	0	18-8-4	14-16-2	5-4-1	L-2
Philadelphia 8	61	31	23	7	69	27	185	182	3	15-13-2	16-10-5	5-4-1	L-1
Washington 9	59	28	22	9	65	25	158	188	-30	16-9-5	12-13-4	6-2-2	W-1
NY Islanders 10	59	25	20	14	64	24	175	200	-25	13-8-9	12-12-5	5-3-2	W-2
New Jersey 11	60	30	26	4	64	30	201	209	-8	14-15-2	16-11-2	5-5-0	L-1
Pittsburgh 12	57	27	22	8	62	25	170	156	14	15-10-4	12-12-4	4-5-1	L-1

A regulation win had us at 66 points, meaning that we'd be 9th, a point ahead of Washington, and could be tied by Islanders but we have the tiebreaker, and we could still be surpassed by Pittsburgh. We would be able to use the one game in hand to come /within/ one of Philadelphia but Philadelphia controls that destiny, and with the two games in hand, we could have tied Tampa. That's the difference between a game here, a game there folks.

 

[Clam Jensen]

Moneypuck playoff odds actually went up slightly. Flyers got destroyed. Flyers are riding Errson in net and have no viable backup. This isn't over.

I wish it was over because this team isn’t doing shit

 

[HoliksGhost]

I guess I only have to watch the last 3 seconds on the DVR to see how the game turned out ?

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Reality says hello:

Eastern	GP	W	L	OTL	Pts	ROW	GF	GA	Diff	Home	Road	Last 10	Streak	Win Championship

Tampa Bay 7	62	32	24	6	70	30	210	210	0	18-8-4	14-16-2	5-4-1	L-2	+2500
Philadelphia 8	61	31	23	7	69	27	185	182	3	15-13-2	16-10-5	5-4-1	L-1	+6600
Washington 9	59	28	22	9	65	25	158	188	-30	16-9-5	12-13-4	6-2-2	W-1	+25000
NY Islanders 10	59	25	20	14	64	24	175	200	-25	13-8-9	12-12-5	5-3-2	W-2	+8000
New Jersey 11	60	30	26	4	64	30	201	209	-8	14-15-2	16-11-2	5-5-0	L-1	+2500
Pittsburgh 12	57	27	22	8	62	25	170	156	14	15-10-4	12-12-4	4-5-1	L-1	+5000

+2500 to win the cup! Let's go!

 

[Bleedred]

The good news is we won’t lose to Anaheim or the Capitals again this year.

We can still get swept by Arizona though.

 

[forceten]

+2500 to win the cup! Let's go!

I edited that out because preseason picks are a bad look lol

 

[Louskoolaid89]

Moneypuck playoff odds actually went up slightly. Flyers got destroyed. Flyers are riding Errson in net and have no viable backup. This isn't over.

It's only possible if we shit can Lindy and find a NHL goalie. And Dawson Mercer is not untouchable. If that's who we need to include in a trade then do it! 27 points and a -13. I like the kid and all but, please....

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

I edited that out because preseason picks are a bad look lol

Oh that was preseason? I thought it was up to date. In any case the playoff chances are nonzero, the teams surrounding NJ have deep flaws too.

Buying rentals clearly out of the question of course, if NJ can't find a longer term G solution then they need to sell off Toffoli for dry powder to fix it in the offseason and just let the team as built try to make it. If they can find a body to keep Daws/Schmid in the AHL for waiver eligibility next year that's fine too.

 

[JrFischer54]

How the hell didn’t he rip that top shelf man wtf. Pay to watch me play my ass

 

[forceten]

Oh that was preseason? I thought it was up to date. In any case the playoff chances are nonzero, the teams surrounding NJ have deep flaws too.

Buying rentals clearly out of the question of course, if NJ can't find a longer term G solution then they need to sell off Toffoli for dry powder to fix it in the offseason and just let the team as built try to make it. If they can find a body to keep Daws/Schmid in the AHL for waiver eligibility next year that's fine too.

We have bodies to play to keep Daws and Schmid's waiver eligibility going. I wonder if that's why Daws has been ridden, so that they didn't add GP to Schmid, in which case, WOOF you threw the season away instead of giving Schmid one of three games in rotation while he's up.

Poulter could have been tried, but wasn't. Kinkaid is ... no worse than these. I don't get it.

I don't get any of it.

 

[JrFischer54]

But at least he would've taken the shot instead of just getting lamely-pokechecked....

agreed maybe because sometimes he gets in too close and tries to shove it through the pad on the ice lol. All in all their shootout/breakways have been trash attempts

 

[Bleedred]

We have bodies to play to keep Daws and Schmid's waiver eligibility going. I wonder if that's why Daws has been ridden, so that they didn't add GP to Schmid, in which case, WOOF you threw the season away instead of giving Schmid one of three games in rotation while he's up.

Poulter could have been tried, but wasn't. Kinkaid is ... no worse than these. I don't get it.

I don't get any of it.

Kinkaid is definitely worse than these at this point. He’s probably right about on par with Andrew Hammond when we had him.

He’s somehow been worse in the AHL than anybody we have had play NHL games this year and so has Kallgren. And they don’t even play on the same AHL team.

Kinkaid has an .878% in 19 games with AHL Chicago and Kallgren has an .879% in 14 games with AHL Utica.

I’m all for bringing one or both of these guys up. Its junk time at this point.

 

[Mgd31]

I rag on Timo and Hughes all the time but they showed up last night. Nico had a bad game. The defense and more so the goaltending sunk us.

Moneypuck playoff odds actually went up slightly. Flyers got destroyed. Flyers are riding Errson in net and have no viable backup. This isn't over.

It’s over when you take a look at the schedule starting next week. We also have no viable backup either.

 

[HoliksGhost]

Playing the entire season without a starting goalie = FUBAR

 

[Louskoolaid89]

I turned it off after the 1st Anaheim shit goes through Daws. The 2nd goal he could of had to pathetic. Waste of a very good team and your gonna lose all of the momentum and energy you had from the fans. I'm just disgusted with everything.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Moneypuck playoff odds actually went up slightly. Flyers got destroyed. Flyers are riding Errson in net and have no viable backup. This isn't over.

Close your eyes Fitz!

How anyone can watch this team and think it's a playoff team is beyond me. If the current roster figures something out and squeaks in just to get pummelled in the first round, so be it. But man, Fitz better not be stupid enough to think there is a trade out there that makes us contenders. Or that this team is close to contender status and should start mortgaging the future to win now.

 

[SML2]

I guess I only have to watch the last 3 seconds on the DVR to see how the game turned out ?

People paid to watch that.

Playing the entire season without a starting goalie = FUBAR

That should get a GM fired unless he brought it to owners and they told him to stand down. Just saying.

 

[Call Me Al]

People paid to watch that.


That should get a GM fired unless he brought it to owners and they told him to stand down. Just saying.

to be fair if i’m a ducks fan id be much happier that i paid for that than at least half the devils home games i went to this year

 

[JimEIV]

You could argue the single biggest turning point of the game was Tierney missing a wide open breakaway with all the time in the world about 6 minutes in. We never again had a chance to take the lead. Shortly after that we were chasing the entire game.

Idk why this is the most depressing loss of the season. Or maybe the most depressing loss is always the latest one.

That's an excellent point.

It's symptomatic of everything that is wrong also. We don't finish on our chances, play a soft defense and then we are playing ketchup for the rest of the game.

 

[forceten]

It's really unfortunate that Jack Hughes's full quote isn't reported with the "People pay to watch me play" thing, because the point he was making was that the other player was dirty and out there to injure people and not play hockey. It wasn't arrogant at all.

 

[Louskoolaid89]

I rag on Timo and Hughes all the time but they showed up last night. Nico had a bad game. The defense and more so the goaltending sunk us.



It’s over when you take a look at the schedule starting next week. We also have no viable backup either.

It's gonna be ugly from the crowd at home.

 

[forceten]

That's an excellent point.

It's symptomatic of everything that is wrong also. We don't finish on our chances, play a soft defense and then we are playing ketchup for the rest of the game.

And as everyone knows ketchup is the most overrated condiment, only good for eggs or mixing into sauces for meatloaf.

 

[Louskoolaid89]

That's an excellent point.

It's symptomatic of everything that is wrong also. We don't finish on our chances, play a soft defense and then we are playing ketchup for the rest of the game.

Especially vs the shit teams in this league! That's so on the coaching staff to fix.