Zajac has been this team's best player this season, at least considering that Hall has been out.
Deb speculating on whether Hynes might starts Cory again tomorrow and change his mind on starting Kinkaid.
If Kinkaid was playing as poorly as he was last year, I might not play him tomorrow night. But there's no reason not to play him. Throw Cory back in against Winnipeg or whoever next week. I'm not even sure if we're playing Winnipeg or Chicago first, I know we play them after Pittsburgh though. Start Cory against whoever we play on Tuesday and give Kinkaid a shot tomorrow night.
And our record when scoring first is downright ugly.
If BB's inside post shot in the 2nd goes in I think we win in regulatio.
Det was running around a lot at that point and Mrazek was shakey.
If that or Camm scores at the end of the 2nd we definitely win in regulation. Even not I think we win it if we didn't give that 3rd goal up.
The good news is Camm seems to be back to good Camm.
I'm honestly semi-impressed they came back to get a point after the game went from should have been 4-2 to 3-4 in like a minute, that sequence at the end of the second period gave me Carolina playoff flashbacks. Of course if they didn't completely punt the first 25 minutes of the game it might have been another story too, they've come out flat too often lately - it's almost as if they think they can win with half-efforts now. This ain't the 2001 Devils, they can't get away with that ****
I don't think all of the goals have been bad and they're definitely not TERRIBLE goals, but there's quite a few that he usually stops. He looked even worse at the beginning of 14-15, so it's not the worst we've seen him play.Cory is not playing his absolute best but come on now. Expecting him to play well consistently behind a team playing this loose defensively is a pipe dream. He's still coming up with big stops that have helped keep his team in the games.
I'm not sure if he'll reach the 62 points that he's currently on pace for, but he's having a really good season. Most people won't leave that ugly 14-15 season that he had in the past, that's why we continue to read people complaining about him. That was clearly an anomaly season for him. He's also one of about literally a handful of guys that I've felt comfortable with on the ice at any given time over the past couple of games, no matter what zone it's in.yup
there better not be anymore bashing of this guy around here for the forseeable future
I think Cory's been bad the last few games, his save percentage this November is awful. But it's mostly just been the last 4 games, where at least one, if not two stoppable goals are going in. Henrique has been mostly meh all season though.Cory deserves to sit two in a row with the way he's been playing. Lately he and Henrique have been competing to see who's the smelliest pile of trash
They've been giving up more shots this year, but now that Cory (or Kinkaid) isn't bailing them out the last few games it's catching up with them.
Well, there was the Anaheim game last week, to enjoy those beverages with the 2 goal lead.I can't handle these tie or one goal games lol. I just want to sit back and enjoy some beverages with a 2 goal lead and coast to victory but they always have to make it interesting.
I'm just as annoyed that he took the penalty because it caused us to play 4 on 4 the entire OT after the period ended, just as much at the fact that he took the dumb O zone penalty and it could have cost us a regulation loss. I've noticed for quite a while that we aren't very good at all at 4 on 4. It's not his fault that there wasn't a whistle between the PP ending and the OT winner, but if he didn't take that penalty then we would have had some 3 on 3 time, barring another penalty. Yeah, we could have lost at 3 on 3 too, but I liked our chances much more of winning or surviving for the shooting and winning there.Palms is the other. Absolutely can't be taking a penalty under 2 minutes left in a tie game. Put us behind the eight ball right at the start of OT.
I feel bad for ripping them for the LAK and San Jose games now. While we've won games with lineups like that, I don't expect us to beat those teams with the lineups we were icing those games. But I thought the compete level was meh. The compete level was completely non-existent in the last two games during the 1st period's of both. They were some of the worst showings I've seen since some point last year.I'm honestly semi-impressed they came back to get a point after the game went from should have been 4-2 to 3-4 in like a minute, that sequence at the end of the second period gave me Carolina playoff flashbacks. Of course if they didn't completely punt the first 25 minutes of the game it might have been another story too, they've come out flat too often lately - it's almost as if they think they can win with half-efforts now. This ain't the 2001 Devils, they can't get away with that ****
We were too loose overall and 5oo casual too often.
Looked like Philly tonight.
I thought of you and my friend, who had to suffer through the horrendous 2014 Black Friday game against the Red Wings. Which featured a botched full 2 minute 5 on 3 PP, but at least we did allow a shorty that night.Well, my winning streak at the Rock has come to an end, sadly. Result was disappointing, because I really felt like the Devils should have been able to beat the Leafs and Wings, but one point is better than none. It was good to see Zacha score again. Cammy looked great for a second game in a row, Rico and Palms seemed better than they had been most of the season, but the power play is abysmal. It was just unacceptable to give up those two goals in the first period. Took the wind out of the team's sails. Also, I think Cory should've had that goal at the end of the second period, but the team as a whole needs to play better defense, as well. Not the result I would've wanted going into the the road trip, but could have been worse.
Yep. Structure and effort were not where they needed to be. Spent too much of the game looking like they were feeling the impact of excessive turkey consumption...