GDT: YOUR New Jersey Devils (1-1) vs. the New York Islanders (2-1) at Barclays, TV on MSG+

[Unknown Caller]

Eh, I'd rather not use up a shootout win in the preseason anyway.

 

[liquid1988]

Here is the best website EVER!

http://www.hasnewjerseywonashootoutyet.com/

 

[Bleedred]

Gomez is BETTER than some of the TRASH we have signed this year. Alright I said it.

 

[njdss4]

A shootout win, even in preseason, would have done wonders for their confidence. Would have...

 

[manilaNJ]

Peter Harrold was the 3rd best defensemen in the lineup tonight.
I for sure thought at least 4 goals were getting by poor Kinkaid with that kind of help.

Pleasantly surprised, actually.
**** shootouts, though.

 

[Devils Unseen Hand]

Shannon is nice to look at! Makes up for that abortion, Butch announcing. Holy crap!!!!

 

[Benedict Parisechuk]

All you can do is laugh

 

[Emperoreddy]

Gomez is BETTER than some of the TRASH we have signed this year. Alright I said it.

So he is better then Bernier is what you want to say.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Peter Harrold was the 3rd best defensemen in the lineup tonight.
I for sure thought at least 4 goals were getting by poor Kinkaid with that kind of help.

Pleasantly surprised, actually.
**** shootouts, though.

Kinky actually looked good outside that nasty gaffe in the first. He is the backup in my mind.

 

[Devils Unseen Hand]

Harrold gets a lot of flack on here, but he's a pretty good utility player & worth keeping him around.

Fed-o-sucko needs to be cut loose. He needs to go to the KHL.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Kinkaid, Gomez and the Elias/Havlat combo looked good. Greene is so clearly the best D man on the team.

Harrold is brutal, yet I think he played the entire OT.

 

[Bleedred]

Sign Gomez plz and thnx.

Drop Komisarek, Carter, and Fedotenko. Waive Bernier. Kinkaid should be the backup too, but god he sucks in shootouts.

Would be bad if we scored in the shootouts this year, but goaltending in it really screws us instead.

 

[Devils Unseen Hand]

Kinky actually looked good outside that nasty gaffe in the first. He is the backup in my mind.

I have to agree. He looked pretty solid out there.

Clemmer 'should' be Albany bound.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Sign Gomez plz and thnx.

Drop Komisarek, Carter, and Fedotenko. Waive Bernier. Kinkaid should be the backup too, but god he sucks in shootouts.

Would be bad if we scored in the shootouts this year, but goaltending in it really screws us instead.

He does what Cory does which is come out WAY to far to challenge the skater. It doesn't work.

 

[manilaNJ]

Kinky actually looked good outside that nasty gaffe in the first. He is the backup in my mind.

Pretty big brain fart, but the fact that it didn't rattle him is promising. He had a lot of quality saves off of quality players.

Harrold gets a lot of flack on here, but he's a pretty good utility player & worth keeping him around.

Thoughts on Peter Harrold aside (I'm actually not that down on him as a #7)... this was the d lineup:

Greene-Severson
Helgeson-Harrold
Burlon-Komisarek

The drop off from the 1st pairing is Grand Canyonesque.
And I thought they found a way to hold their own after the 1st. Not bad.

 

[StnTwnDevil]

So Gomez put himself in the running tonight. Very Solid game for him. Havlat and Elias looked awesome at moments in this game, though Elias seemed to screw up on his end a few times.

Boucher, didn't do anything wrong, but his impact today was minimal. Maybe Henrique hurt the line today.

Matteau had his moments, but it doesn't seem like they get much ice time.

Tootoo and Fedetenko had minimal impact today.

The group of D-men was pretty decent.

Komisarek surprisingly looked solid today. Physical, and really no mistakes.

Severson had a quiet game, but for a defensemen, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I lost track of Burlon and Helegson with their numbers. Helegson seemed to be the more physical of the two.

 

[njdss4]

NJ has so much trouble scoring in the shootout, but the goalies are making it impossible to win them. Schneider was terrible in pretty much every shootout he participated in, usually getting scored on almost every shot, and Kinkaid got beat twice on three shots tonight. NJ has got to avoid the shootout at all costs. Start pulling the goalie in the last minute of OT if necessary.

 

[StnTwnDevil]

Pretty big brain fart, but the fact that it didn't rattle him is promising. He had a lot of quality saves off of quality players.

I forgot about Kinkaid. Overall he's looked very solid. He's definitely shaky with the puck handling. I think he made a mistake like that in the Ranger game as well. Goal-tending alone though, he's looked like he could definitely grab the back-up job so far.

 

[GameSeven]

NJ has so much trouble scoring in the shootout, but the goalies are making it impossible to win them. Schneider was terrible in pretty much every shootout he participated in, usually getting scored on almost every shot, and Kinkaid got beat twice on three shots tonight. NJ has got to avoid the shootout at all costs. Start pulling the goalie in the last minute of OT if necessary.

Kinkaid was beat twice on two shots

 

[StnTwnDevil]

NJ has so much trouble scoring in the shootout, but the goalies are making it impossible to win them. Schneider was terrible in pretty much every shootout he participated in, usually getting scored on almost every shot, and Kinkaid got beat twice on three shots tonight. NJ has got to avoid the shootout at all costs. Start pulling the goalie in the last minute of OT if necessary.

I'm not worried about it yet. Though I didn't like how some outside forces, maybe the hockey gods, seemed to put a rut in the ice where Henrique was stick handling. That concerned me a little bit. Not sure if divine intervention is getting involved in the Devils shootouts.

 

[Semak]

Harrold should be treated like drinking, all in moderation.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I forgot about Kinkaid. Overall he's looked very solid. He's definitely shaky with the puck handling. I think he made a mistake like that in the Ranger game as well. Goal-tending alone though, he's looked like he could definitely grab the back-up job so far.

Instead of imploding he bounced back and made some really high quality saves. That says more to me then the actual mistake.

Boucher I think looked fine, not as outstanding as the Rags game but I noticed his hustle and had a couple of good plays. He doesn't look out of place which says a lot to me.

I was suprised how well the PP looked with the guys who were playing. Elias and Havlat look great together. Ryder looks better, and shockingly Gomez looked good.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I'm not worried about it yet. Though I didn't like how some outside forces, maybe the hockey gods, seemed to put a rut in the ice where Henrique was stick handling. That concerned me a little bit. Not sure if divine intervention is getting involved in the Devils shootouts.

Ya that urked me. That puck was bouncing all over the place, that was a hockey gods moment for sure.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

New shootout plan. Every player comes in and takes a slap shot, and the goalies go Hasek and just start flailing and flopping. Can't get worse. That might at least make things interesting. I'd love to see Gelinas walk in uncontested and just lay into a slapshot from 10 feet out.

 

[njdss4]

New shootout plan. Every player comes in and takes a slap shot, and the goalies go Hasek and just start flailing and flopping. Can't get worse. That might at least make things interesting. I'd love to see Gelinas walk in uncontested and just lay into a slapshot from 10 feet out.

I was just thinking the same thing. At this point, why the hell not? Boucher needs to be on the team just to give them a chance of scoring in the shootout at this point.