GDT: Your New Jersey Devils (8-2) at Vancouver Canucks (6-3-2), 10 PM, MSG+

[JimEIV]

We played an awful lot of games where we dominated for large chunks and had nothing to show for it over the last few years because we couldn't score.

We are owed a few ugly ones

 

[SpeakingOfTheDevils]

We played an awful lot of games where we dominated for large chunks and had nothing to show for it over the last few years because we couldn't score.

We are owed a few ugly ones

My thoughts exactly. We've seen so many tight games like last night's go the other way over these past several seasons. It feels good to come out on top in that type of situation.

 

[JimEIV]

Welcome to my life watching in Germany at 1am while my girlfriend is sleeping next to me

I couldn't do it regularly. If you do, more power to you

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Should have IR'd Palms and called up Blandisi before the road trip. Just to have more options.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Should have IR'd Palms and called up Blandisi before the road trip. Just to have more options.

They IRd Palms and activated Boyle

 

[NJDevs26]

even with how poor our D has looked at times, we're still 10th in GAA allowed at 2.82

2.82 is 10th in GAA?! Must be a juiced puck this year.

<checks stats>

Yep indeed tied for 10th. And last year Ottawa was 10th in GAA at 2.56.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Umm, I'm not the one saying Edmonton is a fast team when they aren't so I have no idea what you're talking about.

Your post sounded like one on the drunk thread.

Edmonton skated circles around us and a lot of teams last season.

They've only had a few changes this season but granted I haven't watched them yet.

Let's see tomorrow.

 

[kiwidevil]

Welcome to my life watching in Germany at 1am while my girlfriend is sleeping next to me

There is no need to watch crappy feeds no matter where you are in the world, if that is what you are putting up with?
PM me if you want a very simple way to watch HD feeds.

 

[AfroThunder396]

Sounds like I missed a pretty bad performance from everyone except Schneider and Hall.

BTW, Hall has 11 points in his last 6 games.

 

[Blackjack]

Sounds like I missed a pretty bad performance from everyone except Schneider and Hall.

BTW, Hall has 11 points in his last 6 games.

We didn’t play great but some of the reactions here are overblown. I wouldn’t call it a bad performance.

 

[Emperoreddy]

We didn’t play great but some of the reactions here are overblown. I wouldn’t call it a bad performance.

Well a bad performance offensively, but the lines were a mess due to Mojo’s injury so it isn’t that surprising.

 

[mtnet]

It was generally a precarious affair

Cory delivered a superhuman performance, a one-man shutdown machine

 

[TheUnseenHand]

They IRd Palms and activated Boyle

Yikes, massive oversight on my part...

Did he seem to slow that line down?

 

[Emperoreddy]

Yikes, massive oversight on my part...

Did he seem to slow that line down?

No. He got gassed, but that was expected first game back. But he provided some good sound defense and faceoff wins like we hoped he would.

 

[NJDevs26]

No. He got gassed, but that was expected first game back. But he provided some good sound defense and faceoff wins like we hoped he would.

Not to mention a crucial shot block in the final minute or two.

 

[glenwo2]

You can argue that he hasnt even started putting pucks in the back of the net yet, Likely he tapers off but I wouldnt be suprised if he is closer to 70 than 60

Uhh.....I could've sworn Taylor Hall has already scored goals this year.

 

[Bleedred]

I know the Canucks aren't a good offensive team, and they'll undoubtedly be near the bottom in goals scored this season, but last night shows that Cory plays well when he does play, and that it's not the '''Defense's fault'' when he plays bad. Because let's be serious, the defense/team defense did not play good last night.

If he plays at a .920 all year, that's like acquiring a #1 defenseman, that we didn't have last year.

 

[glenwo2]

The Edmonton game is going to be a Loss with Hall having his worst game of the season and Larsson scoring a goal because that's how these things tend to go.

You must be fun at Parties, Mr. Ackbar.

(reverse psychology....that's what I'm hoping this is)

 

[Emperoreddy]

I know the Canucks aren't a good offensive team, and they'll undoubtedly be near the bottom in goals scored this season, but last night shows that Cory plays well when he does play, and that it's not the '''Defense's fault'' when he plays bad. Because let's be serious, the defense/team defense did not play good last night.

If he plays at a .920 all year, that's like acquiring a #1 defenseman, that we didn't have last year.

This really isn’t true at all. The team for the most part played well in their own zone both blocking shots and cutting down the shooting lanes allowing Cory to use his superior positioning to take care of everything else.

 

[Goptor]

I know the Canucks aren't a good offensive team, and they'll undoubtedly be near the bottom in goals scored this season, but last night shows that Cory plays well when he does play, and that it's not the '''Defense's fault'' when he plays bad. Because let's be serious, the defense/team defense did not play good last night.

If he plays at a .920 all year, that's like acquiring a #1 defenseman, that we didn't have last year.

I thought the team played a very strong defensive game. They were in the right position and blocking tons of shot. Meanwhile, any rebounds that Cory gave up were taken by hte devils and cleared out of danger areas.

They turned the puck over constantly, Hall was the only forward skating and they struggled to pass the puck which led to them constantly defending.

 

[Bleedred]

This really isn’t true at all. The team for the most part played well in their own zone both blocking shots and cutting down the shooting lanes allowing Cory to use his superior positioning to take care of everything else.

It is very true.

We still allowed 37 shots on goal.

That's much more than we want to allow most nights. I still think we're in the bottom half in shots against, but goaltending has been better than last year.

 

[Bleedred]

I thought the team played a very strong defensive game. They were in the right position and blocking tons of shot. Meanwhile, any rebounds that Cory gave up were taken by hte devils and cleared out of danger areas.

They turned the puck over constantly, Hall was the only forward skating and they struggled to pass the puck which led to them constantly defending.

37 shots on goal isn't a strong defensive game.

If Cory even had an average game last night, I don't think anyone would be saying the defense played good or the team played good defensively. Say Cory allowed 3 goals last night, he may not have necessarily played bad.

Cory stole the game. It's fine, we needed the goalie to steal a game. Even the good teams need the goalie to steal a game once in a while.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Shot totals isn’t the end all be all of a defensive grade. Not at all. That is such an outrageously simple way to look at a game and is divcorcrd from actually watching it.

 

[Bleedred]

Shot totals isn’t the end all be all of a defensive grade. Not at all. That is such an outrageously simple way to look at a game and is divcorcrd from actually watching it.

Playing in the defensive end for most of the game (as we did last night) is not indicative of a good game played.

I don't understand what your issue with me saying it's not?

I mean, it's not like I said the team has sucked all year and the goalies have stood on their head. We played a hell of a game against Ottawa, when Cory was having a bad game.

It's understandable, the team was playing with 11 forwards, 3000 miles from home. I'm just saying this was a goalie win more than anything. They helped him by blocking shots, but I'll never agree ever, that last night was a good team defensive game. I think a lot of you let the goals against sway your opinion on things. With all due respect.

For instance, we played pretty good against Ottawa when Cory was bad in that game, but we allowed 4 goals. I don't think the team played bad enough for us to allow 4 goals that night. And I don't think the team played good enough to allow 0 goals last night. Even the eye test indicated to me that the goalie stole the game. It doesn't mean he was the only player on the team that played good or showed up last night, I just think he was the reason we allowed 0 goals more than anything else.

It's understandable why they had a bit of a meh game.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Because playing in your end doesn’t mean you played poorly defensively. It isn’t the same thing.