GDT: Your NJ Devils @ The Winged Wheel, 1/4/2023

[njdevils1982]

Damn son…how dare you speak the truth again and not speak in cliche lol

A word war will set off the keg
My words are war
Should a word have two meanings?
What the f*** for?
Should words serve the truth?

I stand for language
I speak for truth
I shout for history
I am a cesspool
For all the shit
To run down in

 

[njdevils1982]

They're homers.

Of course they're going to say they played well.

Objectively speaking, they were awesome offensively but were LACKING at a good many points Defensively with VV having to stand on his head many times.

chico's been pretty good this season and does have solid insight... hasnt been sugarcoating bad things

 

[DrBSmooth]

One of the only games I didn't watch this season, and the Devils win and score 5. Of course I decided to watch the WJC game instead and see Canada score 6 unanswered* goals. Feel like Luke now knows what it feels like to be a NJ Devil.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Anyone know if they sell that shirt Nico had on in the post game TNT interview anywhere? It says made in Jersey with the logo in the background. Or is it just one of those team only shirts?

 

[Offseason Champs]

For all the losses they got after playing extremely well on both sides of the puck I'll take a win where they weren't at their absolute best.

 

[bossram]

The PP is alive!

 

[MauDevils]

We lost where it matters most.

 

[Bcap88]

How did they look? Missed the whole game

 

[Bleedred]

We lost where it matters most.

It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought. I thought it would be something worse like close to 60/40.

 

[Dylan9z9]

Glad the Devils won but let us give a big up your ass to refs of the USA CANADA game ....keep up the bad work boys!

 

[NjDevsRR]

The PP is alive!

 

[Guttersniped]

Great to get a win like this one but I don't know why the reaction is so positive - the Devils really did not play all that well, Vanecek bailed them out, and on the offensive end they got some bounces they haven't been getting. It is nice to see the Devils winning this sort of game - they probably lost ten like it last year - and it's also nice to have a win where the result isn't in doubt in the final ten minutes, not sure about the last time that happened but I think it's been a month - still, though, Siegenthaler-Hamilton was destroyed in the first two periods and the Graves-Severson weren't much better.

People like goals, you don’t know why people react positively to a bunch of them?

This game had a lot of weird line experimentation and the line bingo is starting to wear on me. Palat with shake up the lines even more so why try to interpret them *shrug*

Don’t ask me about the defense either. Just a reminder, I was the idiot who thought those 2 GA last game were going to earn Bahl a seat in the press box. But nope, FU Okhotiuk.

I’ve wanted to break up Dougie and Sieg for awhile, switch it up a little since they’ve been struggling for a while.

But while Ruff believes in endless jazzy improvisational forward line tinkering in games, defensive pairs are basically bonds made before god that man cannot rend asunder.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Remember when we said the Devils were a goalie away? Vanecek has give us the most average goaltending in terms of advanced stats, obviously from the eye test he's been a lot better but it shows that we weren't crazy as a fanbase saying that.

We lost where it matters most.

Karma for the Boston x2, Flyers, Stars, Rangers games. We all said they'd win games that they would get outplayed in, they didn't even get that outplayed imo either like we did in those games to those teams.

 

[glenwo2]

chico's been pretty good this season and does have solid insight... hasnt been sugarcoating bad things

What about.....the other guy?

 

[Guttersniped]

 

[TBF1972]

We were always good. That's what was frustrating.

but now it's time again to storm the mainboard. with arrogance!

 

[TBF1972]

Shut the f*** up you stupid worthless dumb f***in stupid excuse for a moron.

IDIOT.

I wish I could reach through my digital device and clock you

I won't get an infraction for verbally assaulting this worthless troll, instead of just reporting him, will I?

get well soon

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

Vanaceck was great tonight. Made some big stops when the game was 1-0 and 2-0. We had some breakdowns and he stepped up big time. That's what the good goalies get paid to do. Make saves and help the team win. Our core guys took the game over tonight (Jack , Nico , Dougie) and it was good to see Holtz get that snipe and assist to help hopefully get him going.

 

[FooteBahl]

One of the only games I didn't watch this season, and the Devils win and score 5. Of course I decided to watch the WJC game instead and see Canada score 6 unanswered* goals. Feel like Luke now knows what it feels like to be a NJ Devil.

Sir, does this rag smell like chloroform?

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

For all the losses they got after playing extremely well on both sides of the puck I'll take a win where they weren't at their absolute best.

Not a stretch to say defensively Brendan Smith was likely the best D in the Devils' end.

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

People like goals, you don’t know why people react positively to a bunch of them?

This game had a lot of weird line experimentation and the line bingo is starting to wear on me. Palat with shake up the lines even more so why try to interpret them *shrug*

Don’t ask me about the defense either. Just a reminder, I was the idiot who thought those 2 GA last game were going to earn Bahl a seat in the press box. But nope, FU Okhotiuk.

I’ve wanted to break up Dougie and Sieg for awhile, switch it up a little since they’ve been struggling for a while.

But while Ruff believes in endless jazzy improvisational forward line tinkering in games, defensive pairs are basically bonds made before god that man cannot rend asunder.

Pairs made sense tonight though play was subpar on the back end.

Smith had a steadying influence with Bahl - playing his off-side.

The other two were shaky but that had as much to do with breakdowns from the forwards as it did with defensive positioning.

The Red Wings brought a lot of speed at times and the Devils didn't handle it well.

 

[Better Call Sal]

We lost where it matters most.

This CJ guy is kind of a goon lol. It’s hockey, the most inherently weird sport there is. Over 82 games, teams win games they were outplayed in all the time, and vice versa.

The overall game according to this was slightly in the favor of Detroit, but Vanecek helped keep us in it early. Then we finished our chances and capitalized on the PP. Not much more to dive into than that.

 

[MachoDiablo]

Admittedly I had to watch this game while distracted, so I likely missed some key stretches of it, but while VV did bail them out multiple times it also felt like there were a few long stretches early in the game that were reminding me way too much of recent "losses where they should've won": Devils just controlling the puck in the offensive zone, basically living right by the net, yet the puck would seemingly grow wings and just float away from the net so that nothing would go in. Basically, it felt to me like the Devils could've easily had a goal or two in the first.

But still, after all those losses where the Devils were the better team, or at least equal to their opponent, yet came up short? I'm not about to look any gift horses in the mouth, let's keep rolling.

 

[Dylan9z9]

Not a stretch to say defensively Brendan Smith was likely the best D in the Devils' end.

That's pretty scary

 

[Devs3cups]

That's pretty scary

Why? It happens and it’s good to see our 5th-6th D-men can pick up some slack when the top-4 isn’t having its best night.