GDT: Your New Jersey Devils (1-0-1, 3 Pts) vs. Florida Panthers (0-2-0, 0 Pts), 7 PM, MSGSN

[Better Call Sal]

We've got some work to do here at the Rock tonight!

Despite taking 3 out of 4 points to start, the Captain's line has struggled out of the gate and the PK has been abysmal to say the least.

But, even if you can't get every line rolling, this team's talent is deep enough to lift everybody up!

Jack and his line are on fire out of the gate, and the Vitek had a strong outing in Game 1.

In come the defending Eastern Conference Champion Florida Panthers, who are looking every bit like the moldy paper tiger they seemed like they were out of the gate.

So let's keep them winless, improve upon our current flaws and take it to 'em tonight!

Your New Jersey Devils Projected Lineup:

#63 Jesper Bratt - #86 Jack Hughes (A) - #73 Tyler Toffoli
#28 Timo Meier - #13 Nico Hischier (C) - #18 Ondrej Palat (A)
#91 Dawson Mercer - #56 Erik Haula - #10 Alexander Holtz
#42 Curtis Lazar - #20 Michael McLeod - #14 Nathan Bastian

#71 Jonas Siegenthaler - #7 Dougie Hamilton
#88 Kevin Bahl - #6 John Marino
#2 Brendan Smith - #43 Luke Hughes

#41 Vitek Vanecek
#40 Akira Schmid

Florida Panthers Projected Lineup:

#23 Carter Verhaeghe - #16 Aleksander Barkov (C) - #17 Evan Rodrigues
#25 Mackie Samoskevich - #27 Eetu Luostarinen - #19 Matthew Tkachuk (A)
#21 Nick Cousins - #15 Anton Lundell - #13 Sam Reinhart
#94 Ryan Lomberg - #82 Kevin Stenlund - #18 Steven Lorentz

#42 Gustav Forsling - #91 Oliver Ekman-Larsson
#77 Niko Mikkola - #7 Dmitry Kulikov
#28 Josh Mahura - #26 Uvis Balinskis

#72 Sergei Bobrovsky
#41 Anthony Stolarz

LFGD

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[Saugus]

Nice Bear themed GDT, I love it!

 

[MasterofGrond]

Nico line actually going to show up tonight. That is my prediction.

Dub and they're first place in the metro, let's GO

 

[Clam Jensen]

Love it, cousin! LGD.

 

[Mgd31]

Bennett is out? Nice, that helps.

 

[Cheddabombs]

Would love a win. Could just be me though

 

[Brooklyndevil]

Florida 0 and 2. They’ll be desperate. Devils will need a full 60 minute effort.

 

[Nocashstyle]

Yeah Florida is going to be annoying and trying really hard. Nerds.

 

[jkrdevil]

Should be a tough game.

 

[Devs3cups]

CHEF! Great show, great GDT,

LGD!

 

[BahlDeep]

Timo time... or do we need to way for the DST?

 

[Better Call Sal]

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Hughes bros like "**** that".

 

[Clam Jensen]

No Tyler? I know it’s optional.

 

[Rhodes 81]

As completely unconcerned as I am about the first two games, I don;t really want to deal with the narratives around here if they look flat tonight so just don't do that please?

 

[Saugus]

As completely unconcerned as I am about the first two games, I don;t really want to deal with the narratives around here if they look flat tonight so just don't do that please?

Right? You would think we got 0 points from the first 2 games, instead of 3.

The flat starts are something that needs to improve, but I'm not that concerned yet.

 

[Puckclektr]

As completely unconcerned as I am about the first two games, I don;t really want to deal with the narratives around here if they look flat tonight so just don't do that please?

on a discussion board? The narrative is that that was arguably their biggest issue last year and is already indicitive of an issue this year. The devils play the first period like a team wanting to tank for a good draft pick.

 

[Saugus]

on a discussion board? The narrative is that that was arguably their biggest issue last year and is already indicitive of an issue this year. The devils play the first period like a team wanting to tank for a good draft pick.

I think it is more that they play the first period like a team that knows it's good, and doesn't take their opponents as seriously as they should. Other teams also throw their best at us because they know we're good.

This is the result.

 

[Devs3cups]

 

[Devils731]

No Tyler? I know it’s optional.

He has to save his legs to keep up with the young guys.

 

[Better Call Sal]

As expected. Hopefully Lazar has a bounce back game. Thought he struggled at times in Game 1. He had a couple noticeable failed clear attempts, though he's been far from alone in that category.

 

[Mgd31]

Hopefully the Devils realize what a national emergency a loss tonight to this board would be since we don't play again till Friday.

 

[MasterofGrond]

Give this board one season of success and suddenly everybody is on suicide watch after a couple totally whatever, not even bad games.

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

Was there discussion around here about Lindy’s line tinkering? Mercer to 3LW and Palat to 2RW seem like extremely weird changes, but i’ll wait and see how it works out.

Of course what we KNOW is gonna happen is the Devils are come out flat again and the blender gets turned on roughly 15 minutes into the first.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Any result won't really matter in the grand scheme of the season, but for this board's sanity with need a good win because I can't do a week of you all losing your shit and calling for everyone to be traded and fired