GDT: Your New Jersey Devils (45-18-7) vs. Minnesota Wild (40-22-8), 7 PM, MSGSN

[My3Sons]

Someone please post screen shots of that comic book. It sounds hysterical. Jack the Boy Wonder and the mysterious Nico Hi3Chier save the day.....

 

[JK3]

The Devils are a really good team, everyone should be worried about us, not the other way around. Stop with this crap.

 

[njdevil26]

The cost of the team being good:

Typically a Tuesday in March with Minnesota in town and you'd be able to get lowers for like $20 a piece. Now the cheapest I've seen is $73.

 

[DevilsHughes86]

Tonight, I think it's Dawson and Jack that will put on a show!

LGD

 

[glenwo2]

Tonight, I think it's Dawson and Jack that will put on a show!

LGD

So it's going to be Dawson's Creek with a Jack-in-The-Box thrown in?

(wait....that latter doesn't sound.....right..uhh.....yeah...)

 

[TonySoprano]

I'll be sittin with the Dr. Cooz types in club seats tonight.

 

[NjDevsRR]

 

[Bleedred]

Fleury having any chance of passing Marty for the all time wins record might even be way too spicy of a take for even DD.

 

[My3Sons]

Fleury having any chance of passing Marty for the all time wins record might even be way too spicy of a take for even DD.

Is an online intervention to gently send someone who may be suffering from multiple personality disorder after losing touch with reality to undergo intense electroshock therapy a thing?

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

When did Lazar get hurt?

 

[Bleedred]

When did Lazar get hurt?

Sometime late in the Panthers game.

I didn't even know he had gotten hurt until Ruff mentioned it either in his pre game press conference before the Lightning game or possibly in the post game press conference of the Panthers game.

 

[DevilsHughes86]

When did Lazar get hurt?

Saturday against Florida. But I believe when we acquired him, he had been injured in Vancouver

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

Well they’ve been on a tear for awhile.

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Now Kirill the Thrill has only been out for these games:
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Sure they lost in OT to the Coyotes but that team has been winning too, with the same record as the Rangers over their last 18 games. Go figure.

And if you look at the stats, the Wild have been doing by getting the best SV% and GA/60 in the NHL. No idea if that’s remotely sustainable but that’s what they’ve been winning with.

As a side note, I would also point that no bubble team deserves the second wild card spot in the West. Winnipeg, Calgary and Nashville are all doing awful lol.

Spoiler: Team stats for those games

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This is ancient history to most of you on here but reminds me of the early days of the Devils when I was in college.

The Penguins, Rangers and Washington were all vying for the last playoff spot (believe the Caps ended up getting in) but all kept losing.

The Devils blew out the Penguins at home on a Saturday afternoon late in the year.

One of the Penguins said after the game, "It seems like nobody wants to make the playoffs."

I haven't watched the Wild much this season, so I don't know what to expect regarding how good they are.

But I would love to see the Devils continue to make the entire Western Conference their bitches. So let's do that.

Except that hasn't been the case. Devils have owned the Pacific but the Central has been a challenge.

This should be a good test.

 

[njdevils1982]

Is an online intervention to gently send someone who may be suffering from multiple personality disorder after losing touch with reality to undergo intense electroshock therapy a thing?

 

[BahlDeep]

Is Big Foote in?

 

[Cheddabombs]

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Excited for another pepe game

 

[Clam Jensen]

Is Big Foote in?

hopefully!

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

I'll be sittin with the Dr. Cooz types in club seats tonight.

Timo lays someone out — “That’s a f***in beautiful hit, huh?”

 

[forceten]

I sense Foote has a shot to be our new Zetterlund!

 

[NJDevs26]

Saturday against Florida. But I believe when we acquired him, he had been injured in Vancouver

No he just wasn’t with the team because of visa issues

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Wood should go in... to a volcano as sacrifice to the hockey gods.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Is Big Foote in?

 

[NJDevs26]

The cost of the team being good:

Typically a Tuesday in March with Minnesota in town and you'd be able to get lowers for like $20 a piece. Now the cheapest I've seen is $73.

Maybe, but the actual get in price is still around $30. These aren’t OMG sellout prices.

 

[Eggtimer]

I haven't watched the Wild much this season, so I don't know what to expect regarding how good they are.

But I would love to see the Devils continue to make the entire Western Conference their bitches. So let's do that.

Wild‘s record is better than I thought they were. At one point it looked like they were going to miss the playoffs and looked like a very ordinary / mediocre team. I think them not going with Fleury as much as they were at first is the main reason. Their GA has been very stingy and they seem to be able to grind teams down. They play very tight defence and grind down low with their cycle game amd funnel everything to the net with traffic all around the net.
I don’t know why I don’t give us more credit as we are the 2nd / 3rd best team in the entire league with tons of firepower but it seems like every opponent on any given night can beat anyone and I just want the kids to win and take over 1st in the Metro .

Hope we test Schmid down the stretch and give him a decent workload. I might even be happy with a true committee for the playoffs instead of planning to play Vanecek 28 straight games.

We are only going need him for 16 games , all wins .

 

[Eggtimer]

I sense Foote has a shot to be our new Zetterlund!

It’s good that we have very nice depth in Utica to try and replace Zetterlund. Clarke , Thompson , Foote , mayyyyybe (hopefully ) Stillman one day….
Then we still have a couple high end forwards yet with Holtz and Gritsyuk .