GDT: 6 // Coyotes @ Devils // 25 Oct 4pm

[ck26]

7P. ARIZONA COYOTES (1-4-0) @ 6M. NEW JERSEY DEVILS (2-2-1)

Game 6 @ Prudential Center in Newark, NJ
First puck drop at 1600 Arizona Time

NEXT BEST THING TO A CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT
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NOTE: Lines are subject to change and are a complete guess until @azc_mclellan sets us straight.

ARIZONA COYOTES

16 Max Domi - 11 Martin Hanzal (A) - 17 Radim Vrbata
8 Toby Rieder - 15 Brad Richardson - 19 Saint Shane, Our Dear Leader (C)
88 Jamie McGinn - 48 Jordan Martinook - 10 Tony Duclair
67 Lawson Crouse - 18 Chris Dvorak - 25 Ryan White

23 Oliver Ekman-Larsson (A) - 5 Connor Murphy
33 Alex Goligoski - 26 Mike Stone
6 Jakob Chicken Run - 2 Luke Schenn

35 Louis Domingue
40 Justin Peters

Press Box: 76 F Laurent Dauphin, 20 F Dylan The Argumentative Teen, 21 D Jamie McBain
Sick Call: Pizza Goalie

NEW JERSEY DEVILS
9 Taylor Hall - 37 Pavel Zacha - 21 Kyle Palmieri
13 Mike Cammalleri (A) - 19 Travis Zajac - 11 PA Parenteau
8 Beau Bennett - 14 Adam Henrique (A) - 16 Joe Josefson
51 Sergei Kalinin - 38 Vernon Fiddler - 25 Devante Smith-Pelley

6 Andy Greene (C) - 28 Damon Severson
2 John Moore - 22 Kyle Quincey
33 Johann Auvitu - 12 Ben Lovejoy

35 Cory Schneider
1 Keith Kinkaid

Press box: 15 Reid Boucher
Sick Call: 20 Luke Gazdic, 7 Jon Merrill
Technically On The Team But Let's Be Real: Marc Savard
Buried Somewhere In The Minors: Brandon Gormley

THE PATENTED ck26 TACTICAL BREAKDOWN IS BACK!

1. FRANCHISE RELOCATION HISTORY
Winnipeg To America West To Gila River ... 1,933 miles vs Kemper (KC) to McNicholls (Denver) to Izod to Prudential ... 2,388 miles
ADV ARZ ... 1-0

2. STANLEY CUP HISTORY
Still Working On That ... vs 1995, 2000, 2003
ADV NJD ... 1-1

3. FAMOUS DRAFT REACTION
Max Domi ... "Sick, eh? Phoenix?" (2013) vs Ken Daneyko ... "When Did New Jersey Get A Hockey Team?" (1982)
ADV NJD ... 1-2
But there's no video of it because they didn't televise the draft back in 1982 so here's a clip of Max Domi anyway


4. COACHES OLD TIMER GAME
TGO (4 Cups, 10 Art Rosses, 9 Harts, 2 Smythes), Dave Tippett (783 games, Olympic silver), Jim Schoenfeld (794 games) vs Jacques Lemaire (8 Cups), Brent Sutter (2 Cups, 393 goals), Robbie Ftorek (308 goals, Olympic silver), Larry Robinson (6 Cups, 2 Norrises, Smythe), Jim Schoenfeld (794 games)
ADV ARZ ... 2-2
But real talk, there's been a lot of talented ex-players who have coached these two teams

5. ICONIC, DIRTY, BRAIN-SCRAMBLING MOMENT
Raffi Torres on Marian Hossa (2012) vs Scott Stevens on Paul Kariya (2003)
ADV NJD ... 2-3



6. LOCAL CELEBRITY HOT CHICK
Julie Johnston (Mesa, soccer World Cup winner) vs Katrina Bowden (Wyckoff, some random actress)
ADV ARZ ... 3-3

7. GOING TO WIN TONIGHT'S GAME
Dogs vs Devils
ADV ARZ ... 4-3



"I'm Martin Brodeur And I Approve This GDT"

Seriously ... win plz.​

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[ck26]

Traveling overnight tonight, so I'm getting this up early. Will tweak the lines as Sarah tweets them.

 

[Matias Maccete]

A win, or even just a game where we don't look lost in in the D zone sure would be nice. Also strome.

 

[moosemeister]

I think this game should go to Peters. Domingue has looked better, but we should see what Peters can do and if that pumps the boys up to play better in front of him.

 

[XX]

I think this game should go to Peters. Domingue has looked better, but we should see what Peters can do and if that pumps the boys up to play better in front of him.

If the goalie is what motivates the players to not blow their defensive assignments then we've got a problem.

 

[moosemeister]

If the goalie is what motivates the players to not blow their defensive assignments then we've got a problem.

While I agree it tends to work with this team sometimes. Why not try it? Worst we can do is lose, again.

 

[Spirit of Lindgren]

This will be the first game that I won't be stressed out to the point of sweating through my easy chair.
No point now.
Lets just get a "w" how about it?

 

[Plub]

Love your GDTs, hope they win this one for you!!!

 

[CC96]

I'm pretty sure my good friend used to play co-ed soccer with Julie Johnson, when he was younger.

Anyway, here's to a win. Hoping we can see the defense start to clean up their mistakes.

 

[OriginalJetsCoyotes]

Found this annoying factoid on the Coyotes preview page for the game.

Goalie Cory Schneider, who has started every game this season, is 7-1-1, with four shutouts, a 0.88 goals-against average and a .969 save percentage vs. the Coyotes.

Could be a long game.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Found this annoying factoid on the Coyotes preview page for the game.



Could be a long game.

As every mutual fund prospectus says...
"past performance is not an indicator of future results"

 

[kihekah19*]

While I agree it tends to work with this team sometimes. Why not try it? Worst we can do is lose, again.

It actually works with all teams sometimes.

 

[Hinterland]

I really hope that this is just to fool our opponents. Why would you force a winger to play Center if you already got too many Centers? I'm not a great fan of Strome so far bur this is ridiculous. If that's how Tippetts intends to win games or develop talents then he should get fired right away. This is completely bonkers.

 

[Hinterland]

If this is kind of a halloween troll thing...cool. If it's anything more I'm really worried...

 

[_Del_]

Martinook has played center before. In a vacuum, I wouldn't care, but... It's definitely an interesting experiment considering there is a line he plays well on as a winger and we have Hanzal-Dvorak-Richardson-Strome who we would then have to scratch one of.
Maybe the goal is to make so many odd lineup decisions that we'll question those constantly and forget that the team has lower than a 40% win percentage since 2012.

 

[WrinkledPossum]

I'm so confused by this line up. Why did the Triple D line got broken up, why is Dvorak on the fourth line, and why is Martinook a center now?

 

[Hinterland]

Martinook has played center before. In a vacuum, I wouldn't care, but... It's definitely an interesting experiment considering there is a line he plays well on as a winger and we have Hanzal-Dvorak-Richardson-Strome who we would then have to scratch one of.
Maybe the goal is to make so many odd lineup decisions that we'll question those constantly and forget that the team has lower than a 40% win percentage since 2012.

For the Yotes? Center? Maybe a few shifts...but not more than one game in total. I would know about that otherwise...

Either Tippetts has gone bonkers or he has an agreement with Las Vegas and is trying hard to get fired now.
If he wants to sit Strome - cool. But we got 5 natural centers with Hanzal, Dvorak, Strome, Dauphin and White. Sooner or later you gotta give Dvorak and Strome minutes. It just makes 0,0000000 sense to switch wingers to center now. How dumb do you have to be to even think of it? Pure Facepalm...

 

[_Del_]

He was drafted as a center and played there in Portland for sometime, as well. But I agree that it's a head scratcher all things considered.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

I think this game should go to Peters.

Tippett agrees with you.

 

[kihekah19*]

Tippett agrees with you.

Perhaps he is going to the two mediocre goalie rotation that poster LennyVegas promotes..... perhaps LennyVegas is none other than Dave Tippett

 

[Bandit34]

Why can't we just see how it goes before we knock it?

 

[Bandit34]

New Jersey has had trouble with scoring so far this year. Should be a nice turnaround game for Arizona.

 

[Coyotes2000]

Big night from Domi & Duke

CALLING IT!

 

[Hinterland]

Why can't we just see how it goes before we knock it?

Even if it works it's still dumb to switch players to center if you already have too many centers and amongst them two guys who are gonna need minutes in near future.

 

[Hinterland]

Big night from Domi & Duke

CALLING IT!

Duclair? Playing with Center Martinook and turtle McGinn? Unless these are just troll lines that's a pretty bold prediction