Post-Game Talk: Cap team 5, Mickey Mouse team 1

[Bleedred]

I almost wonder if he's a bit more like a Torts type than we know and the players just tune out at a certain point? Although it seems odd they would tune him out so soon after finally having some success last year.

It felt like they tuned him out in 2016 also, but they seemed to shed some deadweight and came back the next year and seemed to at least respond.

I still don't give him credit for making the playoffs last year, but at least they responded.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

It felt like they tuned him out in 2016 also, but they seemed to shed some deadweight and came back the next year and seemed to at least respond.

I still don't give him credit for making the playoffs last year, but at least they responded.

Massive roster change last year. A lot of new faces and rookies.

I'll say it again, at least deBoer had a system and the team played it, we just never converted on shooting chances. How many games were the shots 40-20 in our favor and we'd loose 3-1? Team was less talented in his last years bu generally put in a good effort.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

I have no problems playing Kinkaid over Schneider this season. Given the well documented issues that Schneider has. But after this latest blowout we have reached a point whereby Kinkaid's confidence looks shot.

So we now have 2 struggling goaltenders with confidence issues.

Add to our younger players like Butcher, Zacha, Wood playing poorly compared to last year, and our win-loss record being among the worse in the NHL, I don't see how Hynes position as head coach is tenable.

We have tried everything but a coaching change.

AHL callups and demotions haven't worked.
Waiver wire (Dea) didn't work.
Mature Euro prospect (Yakolev) hasn't made a difference, although I dont think he has been that bad aside from a few difficult moments.

Its time for Shero to fire Hynes and Nasreddine at a minimum.

Make a godfather offer to Quenneville to takeover.

Do something please.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

We should offer sheet Brayden Point to the tune of $10m per season. Just blow Tampa out of the water.

Amazing player, certified Devils killer.

Yes we will give up a boat load of future picks but it will mean that he won't ever play us again. It would be worth it, trust me.

 

[Emperoreddy]

The thing is, they shouldn't need the ****ing coach to constantly get them motivated. Just last year these same players saw what working their asses off got them, which was back in the playoffs. It seems weird that they would abandon that 4 games into the season. This team showed resilience last year during that road trip that was supposed to end our season, yet fold like a cheap tent this year. I just don't get it.

The players should be self-starters, but it’s the coaches job to hold the players accountable if they aren’t doing what they need to do. Benching Hall for playing like dog shit tonight was something at least.

You can’t trade all your players.

 

[Cult of Hynes]

We should offer sheet Brayden Point to the tune of $10m per season. Just blow Tampa out of the water.

Amazing player, certified Devils killer.

Yes we will give up a boat load of future picks but it will mean that he won't ever play us again. It would be worth it, trust me.

We'd take care of a top 6 center problem. He could be the number one and Nico the number 2.

This team is beyond boring right now, and it's just not fun to watch anymore.

 

[aero8279]

not good enough, he doesnt deserve the road trip. this is bull**** to accept silence from Shero on the matter as well

What do you think he's going to say? That this is a good chunk his fault? That he banked on what feels like 10 guys having career years to do it again and have every rookie make great strides knowing deep down that's not realistic? That there is an internal cap? He's going to give you nothing you don't already know with just the eye test. You don't need him speaking in g.m. talk to know these things.

 

[The 29th Pick]

And Ray is still silent since September

Do they show him during the games watching from his box???? I remember last year they'd show him all the time during games, and they used to show Lou all the time (he had the same look on his face win or lose though!)

 

[ThePrideofStockholm]

If we sack Hynes, or maybe I should say when he gets sacked. Are there any good coaches out there? On the positive side. Boqvist are looking good playing first line in shl and Zetterlund is back from his injury

 

[BahlDeep]

If we sack Hynes, or maybe I should say when he gets sacked. Are there any good coaches out there? On the positive side. Boqvist are looking good playing first line in shl and Zetterlund is back from his injury

Quenneville

 

[Burner Account]

Quenneville

Probably not.

 

[SeidoN]

I have moved into the fire Hynes camp

 

[JrFischer54]

i still believe that something shook this team to the core that we dont know about. noway they go from the start they had to how they are playing now? noway something happened in that locker room

 

[RandoDoomer]

Sigh...our last Cup seems like something from the Jurrasic period at this point. Geez, my high school sophomore wasn't even born yet and my HS junior just turned one. All they've known is the Devils being irrelevant. They look on in wonder when they gather round and I tell them tales of Stevens and Niedermeyer, and Vezina trophies, and Brodeur shutouts, and deep playoff runs, and epic 7-games series..............

 

[JrFischer54]

Sigh...our last Cup seems like something from the Jurrasic period at this point. Geez, my high school sophomore wasn't even born yet and my HS junior just turned one. All they've known is the Devils being irrelevant. They look on in wonder when they gather round and I tell them tales of Stevens and Niedermeyer, and Vezina trophies, and Brodeur shutouts, and deep playoff runs, and epic 7-games series..............

tell it again pa tell it again

 

[I Hate Tie DOMI]

Stafford the new old Tyler Kennedy.............except older.

If given the choice today. I'd take the retired for two years Tyler Kennedy over Drew Stafford and not look back.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Stafford is under 1% of the problems that are festering

 

[RandoDoomer]

tell it again pa tell it again

Haha, let's hope we see another Cup before I'm regaling my grandkids with these stories of yesteryear.

 

[OmNomNom]

We should offer sheet Brayden Point to the tune of $10m per season. Just blow Tampa out of the water.

Amazing player, certified Devils killer.

Yes we will give up a boat load of future picks but it will mean that he won't ever play us again. It would be worth it, trust me.

christ, i thought you were serious at first. the shouts of offer sheets make me go crazy

 

[GameSeven]

82 Game Odyssey has become 82 Game Drudgery

 

[NJDevs26]

Sigh...our last Cup seems like something from the Jurrasic period at this point. Geez, my high school sophomore wasn't even born yet and my HS junior just turned one. All they've known is the Devils being irrelevant. They look on in wonder when they gather round and I tell them tales of Stevens and Niedermeyer, and Vezina trophies, and Brodeur shutouts, and deep playoff runs, and epic 7-games series..............

Fifteen years is a long time in life but it ain’t a long time in sports. If you think this is long try being a Mets (32 years) or Jets (50 years) fan sometime.

What’s worse than x number of years without a championship is the number of years this team has been irrelevant since 2012. Another 3-4 of these kind of seasons and you might lose out on a whole generation of potential fans.

 

[Aerrol]

I can just imagine some Oilers fans going "See, I told you you can't win with Hall!"

Oilers fan here because literally this is happening right now on our board and it drives me crazy lol.

What's going on with Hall? Clashing with Hynes?

 

[Better Call Sal]

Oilers fan here because literally this is happening right now on our board and it drives me crazy lol.

What's going on with Hall? Clashing with Hynes?

Nothing is going on with Hall. He had a bad game last night and it was showing. Hynes sat him for the rest of the 2nd and took him off the top line in the 3rd. He was having that bad of a game.

Hall is trying to do too much at times this year, but he's been completely fine. There's nothing more to it than that.

 

[Devils Dominion]

82 Game Odyssey has become 82 Game Drudgery

I haven't watched it since the first one

 

[New Jersey]

Fifteen years is a long time in life but it ain’t a long time in sports. If you think this is long try being a Mets (32 years) or Jets (50 years) fan sometime.

What’s worse than x number of years without a championship is the number of years this team has been irrelevant since 2012. Another 3-4 of these kind of seasons and you might lose out on a whole generation of potential fans.

Seton Hall hasn't been to the Final Four in 30 years, and haven't had the top record in the Big East since 1993.

The Red Bulls are still the MetroStars.

We should keep in perspective that relative to the success of most of our area's teams at all levels, the Devils of 1995-2003 are an exception, not the rule.

It just sucks that it happened so early in the history of our franchise whereas now we can't handle a basement dweller.