GDT: Your New Jersey Devils @ Arizona Coyotes : the I just woke up edition

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Bleedred

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I would rather see Farnham - Josefson - Gionta

I probably would too, but I don't believe Matteau is good enough for the 3rd line.

At least not from anything I've seen so far.

With that line, Matteau is either in the top 9 or a healthy scratch every night.
 

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I probably would too, but I don't believe Matteau is good enough for the 3rd line.

At least not from anything I've seen so far.

I'm saying that should be the 4th line.

Cammalleri Henrique Stempniak
Boucher Zajac Palmieri
Kalinin Blandisi Tlusty (begrudgingly )
Matteau Josefson Farnham
 

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I probably would too, but I don't believe Matteau is good enough for the 3rd line.

At least not from anything I've seen so far.

With that line, Matteau is either in the top 9 or a healthy scratch every night.

The thing about your fourth line is you really need to rely on them, especially if you want to have a good team. Sometimes more than your third line.
 

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The thing about your fourth line is you really need to rely on them, especially if you want to have a good team. Sometimes more than your third line.

We've definitely relied on ours for offense more than what has been considered the 3rd line, that's for sure.
 

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I'm saying that should be the 4th line.

Cammalleri Henrique Stempniak
Boucher Zajac Palmieri
Kalinin Blandisi Tlusty (begrudgingly )
Matteau Josefson Farnham

im pretty much down for this, looks like the best combo imo
 

Zippy316

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We've definitely relied on ours for offense more than what has been considered the 3rd line, that's for sure.

I meant defensively. I just don't trust Matteau defensively yet.

Farnham - Josefson - Gionta can play a fast game just like Farnham - Gionta - Tootoo, but it takes away Tootoo's stupid decisions.
 

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if he had all those things he'd be Patrick Kane...I'll settle for a 20 goal scorer though :)

Doubt he even becomes that unless he finds ways to get himself into position...or we find a wizard to get him the puck.

No denying that shot...im just not sure he has anything at all to go with it
 

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I really hope we can stay relevant this season. The next three games are very winnable: home against Calgary and Ottawa, away against Winnipeg.
 

NJDevs26

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We have become complacent.

No Borat gif?

I am disappoint.

It took Borat a little while to wake up too :sarcasm:

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I was trying to find nhl records for most shot attempts in a game. I still could not find the statistic BUT I did see that Ray Bourque had 19 (19!) shots in a single game. That's crazy.
 

Devils Dominion

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Thank you Tippett for starting Blimpback.

Cory was the reason we were not run out of the rink.
All-Star performance.

Bouch with a nasty snipe, but we only scored 2 basically playing vs an open net.

Get some sleep tomorrow Devils and let's hope Cammy is back soon.
 

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Thank you Tippett for starting Blimpback.

Cory was the reason we were not run out of the rink.
All-Star performance.

Bouch with a nasty snipe, but we only scored 2 basically playing vs an open net.

Get some sleep tomorrow Devils and let's hope Cammy is back soon.

We'd have a better chance of being shutout if they played an empty net all goal than with Blimpback in there.

With all the mediocre goaltenders we make look good, Blimpback has been abysmal against us in his career. Absolutely abysmal against us.

And we've had an awful offense all but one season he's been in the league. And the only year we had an average offense was the only season in his career that he didn't play against us.
 

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It's really amazing how good Schneider makes us. I would not trade Schneider for Patty Kane or Erik Karlsson, they would not make this team better than with Schneider in net.

Goaltending>>>>Every other position. I would have traded the first overall pick if we had it that year we traded for Cory.
 

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It's really amazing how good Schneider makes us. I would not trade Schneider for Patty Kane or Erik Karlsson, they would not make this team better than with Schneider in net.

Goaltending>>>>Every other position. I would have traded the first overall pick if we had it that year we traded for Cory.

I hate to continue beating up on Kinkaid, but we're probably the worst team in the league with this year's version of Kinkaid starting as many games as Cory had.

And then we'd have this complete misinterpretation that outside fans make.

''That D they have over in New Jersey is the worst in the league. You can't judge any goaltender playing behind that team. Remember how bad Mason was on Columbus? Or how bad Dubnyk was that last season in Edmonton?'' just like they constantly do with teams like Edmonton and Arizona, Carolina and Calgary too. And whatever other team had ****** goaltending and was dead near last in goals against.

Not that most of those teams have particularly great defense, I'm just saying.

Even with a league average goaltender starting most of the games like say Antti Niemi, we're probably a bottom 2 or 3 team with how poor the offense is.
 

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If a team like Dallas traded their pick that same year for Cory they would've solved their goaltending issue and been a contender right now. We are so lucky to have him.
 

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If a team like Dallas traded their pick that same year for Cory they would've solved their goaltending issue and been a contender right now. We are so lucky to have him.

Lehtonen was still good as of that season, not as good as Cory though.

Niemi isn't a bad goaltender by any means, he just isn't as good as Cory.

He's not the kind of goaltender that's gonna cost a team a playoff spot, like Pavelec has been doing for years and up in Winnipeg. And did a pretty good job of this year before he was injured.

He's just not good enough to drag a so-so team (last year's Sharks) to the playoffs.

I still think it's hilarious that Martin Jones and Robin Lehner went for first round picks this year. Both less proven than Schneider was when he was traded to us. Well many Lehner has had almost as many games played, but he's been clearly inferior.
 
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