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Holik to HHOF
wont matter, Lou will never be a seller
Nice, a great quality of a GM of this club. Yay.
wont matter, Lou will never be a seller
Hey, does Kevin Dineen have a job?
If not, let's offer him one.
Can't be any worse. At least the guy held his team accountable.
I'd rather not dig through the Panthers trash again.
Could get Lemaire again, he's known for being able to blend both properly, but I wouldn't think he'd do it again.
Sell any vets of value at the deadline or before for draft picks.
Win draft lottery.
Acquire McEichel.
Win.
(Yes, I am kidding. But the state of the Devils is not good right now.)
I don't know how Lou thought he could make us a good team by bringing in ever player that every other team disposed of. We need to throw in this season get a #1 draft pick and build a team around him. It's the only way we will ever be good again.
Cammalleri wasn't disposed of, he was sought after by several teams but liked that Lou had bee pursuing him for years. He's probably our best overall player right now, but you're saying that was a bad move?
I think on paper, this team looked improved from last season overall, and we were close to the playoffs last season so you'd expect us to be in the mix this season. But as of right now - Elias is invisible, Jagr isn't quite the same, Greene hasn't stepped up, Zid is bad more than he is good, Sal looks horrific, and the young D are still learning, Henrique and Havlat are out, and I don't think our system is giving us the best chance to win (either that or guys aren't executing it well)
I'd love a top 2 pick in the draft but we probably aren't that bad. We'll draft top 10 if this continues but the player won't make an impact for a couple years. Boucher did not look close to ready in his brief stint, and I'd find it hard to believe Matteau would be any better.
A top 10 pick in this years draft will make an impact, soon to. This years draft is stacked
We MUST WIN tonight to stay in a competitive area in the standings. We are slowly but surely falling behind and we all know how a few losses makes a world a difference in this sport
Nice, a great quality of a GM of this club. Yay.
Hey, does Kevin Dineen have a job?
If not, let's offer him one.
Can't be any worse. At least the guy held his team accountable.
This is where it hurts to be in a non hockey market. You need media members calling this bullcrap out.
So only one player played less then JJ tonight, and that was Too too.
No d-man played less then Lars.
12 minutes for lars, 18 for Sal.
There was faceoff early in the 3rd in Bostons zone, when Zids and Gelinas were the d-men. Dano made note of it. Obviously Devs saw this as an oppurtunity for some offense.
Who was taking the faceoff. The worst faceoff guy on the team of coarse. Boston wins the faceoff, quickly clears the zone, and so much for the Gelinas Zidlicky pairing.
Pretty lousy coaching going on here.
Call out the goalie, check.
Take no responsibility for awful player management, check. (How is that Sal-Zid pairing working for ya?)
What are the odds he starts the "average" goaltender, who should not be fatigued, with his back against the wall?
I think some people tend to go way to far in blaming Pete DeBoer for everything, but at some point, keeping Salvador-Zidlicky together should be a fireable offense.
And give Cory a day off, already
We're not in a non-traditional market - the problem is the Devils are in a small subset of a much larger market. Who else do we have besides the [Newark] Star-Ledger, which dropped the city's name years ago, and the Record? Same problem with our TV ratings, they always seem far worse because the entire metropolitan area is factored into the Nielsen DMA. Northern and central NJ make up maybe a third of the overall population of the NY metro DMA (which is by far the largest on the continent and helps support the argument that the area can support 3 teams).
Also I find it rather amusing that people can actually put the blame on Larsson for that cluster**** job by Gelinas. It is a risky pass but you have to handle it when it comes straight on the tape.