GDT: Cold as Ice: Your New Jersey Devils (11-14-7) @ Columbus Blue Jackets (18-12-3), 7 PM, MSG

[billingtons ghost]

So, the more I watch, the more I'm convinced that we are just in a cycle of:
Dmen can't skate with the puck.
When they do, they never follow the play so we don't attack as 5 man unit.
They never follow the play because our forwards turn it over at the blue line, catching them in breakaways.

Even if they hang back, their poor reads, poor gap control and poor stickwork means the puck will end up in the net anyway.

We have become versatile in the ways which we can be scored upon.

 

[Cage Helmet]

I think you give Keith Ottawa tomorrow and then go right back to Blackwood on Sunday against the Jackets

For sure. I see no reason to start him two nights in a row. That’s a lot to ask of him. We’re at the stage of the season where it’s entirely pointless to play any G on consecutive nights.

 

[bobilly45]

I think you give Keith Ottawa tomorrow and then go right back to Blackwood on Sunday against the Jackets

Well it was already announced before the game that kk has tomorrow. I dont think blackwood gets Sunday, but the coach does do dumb things

 

[NJDevs26]

Hynes already had said Keith was playing tomorrow night, usually he doesn't announce the goalies in advance but he commited to the split already.

 

[Cult of Hynes]

And pretty much the only difference is -Moore, -GeoffWard/+Kowalski/+Grier, -Gibbons

Everyone else is the same for all practical purposes. Vat is one concussion later.

What in the **** happened.............. !!

Greene another year older, slower, and shittier.

 

[Better Call Sal]

At least it was competitive.

But no moral victories are to be had anymore.

 

[Jets012]

Hall thinks the team played well???????? My goodness

 

[BahlDeep]

"Sometimes you come up on the wrong end"

Hey bud, it's not sometimes, it's all the time

 

[Cage Helmet]

I doubt he is, wedge looked better coming up then he did. He had a good game, made solid saves. Some here and on Twitter are saying hes better then both kk and cory after 1 game. which simply isnt true.

Good point on Wedgewood. Scott Clemmensen had a shutout in his first start in the big league. I think it is true that he’s better than Cory is now. Schneids was completely unplayable. And it looks like his career is ending.

 

[tr83]

wow...ZERO shot assists for santini?? plug

Todd must love Travis.

Baejac?

 

[BahlDeep]

Hall thinks the team played well???????? My goodness

Recency bias, that end of the game might've skew his view

 

[Devils Dominion]

MBW was encouraging, butttttt, let's remember Wedgwood a few years ago

 

[Whaddagoal]

Greene another year older, slower, and ****tier.

The kids should be better, at least some of them, one year later. Mueller, Bratt, Nico, Zacha...whomever. it should balance out to some degree.

It shouldn't go to shit just on Greene, and I'm one of his bigger detractors this season.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I'm getting sick of various people (TV guys, reporters, players, coaches) saying the other team's goalie was "great" tonight.

Call me crazy, but maybe that's not quite correct.

 

[Jets012]

Recency bias, that end of the game might've skew his view

Hopefully

 

[bobilly45]

Goalies are so hard to peg. Who knows? He may very well just take this opportunity and run with it and never get sent back down again. Too early to tell but I'm fishing for any kind of optimism at this point

He will be sent down again... this so far has been his only good stretch since being in the system. We've seen hes really really bad when hes not on his game. I think we just got lucky and used him during a good run for him. He just needs time to improve his consistancy.

 

[Cage Helmet]

Hall thinks the team played well???????? My goodness

Hopefully just a facade. This was the worst game they’ve played since San Jose.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Hall thinks the team played well???????? My goodness

I mean, it was, but it wasn't a complete game, 1st period we got hosed. 3rd period looked good, but that's rosey talk now...

"Well" is all relative considering the prior game.

 

[billingtons ghost]

You wanted a guy who has trouble moving the puck out of our end to play more minutes in a game where no one on the NJD could even escape their own end? What’s the matter with you?

I'd prefer it to a guy who just passes it to the other team. Or spins in circles in front of the net or falls on our goalie, or can no longer keep up with gameplay. Yeah. A defenseman who can play defense.

Don't worry he will be scratched like our only other capable dman.

 

[BahlDeep]

I'm getting sick of various people (TV guys, reporters, players, coaches) saying the other team's goalie was "great" tonight.

Call me crazy, but maybe that's not quite correct.

Bob was great though today, but most of the time we simply suck

 

[bobilly45]

I'm getting sick of various people (TV guys, reporters, players, coaches) saying the other team's goalie was "great" tonight.

Call me crazy, but maybe that's not quite correct.

Ok. You're crazy bc the goalie was actually good tonight, he robbed multiple goals.

 

[MNDevilsfan]

Thought Blackwood looked very solid in his first start. Shame the rest of the team hung him out to dry.

 

[glenwo2]

Yep

Slightly quicker than Cory

Backhanded compliment is backhanded.

 

[billingtons ghost]

The defense has been worse tonight (including Severson) than any game in the last couple weeks, so I don't wanna hear your bull**** that it's the defense and not the goaltending.

Sarcasm?
It is the defense, and not the goaltending. Has been the last few years now. Ruined Schneider's career.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Ok. You're crazy bc the goalie was actually good tonight, he robbed multiple goals.

It's more than just 1 game, it's every loss.

Even tonight, Bob had 2 or 3 great saves. That's it. Bob had to play ONE period.

The Devils had 9 shots on goal 1/2-way through the game!

 

[Cult of Hynes]

The kids should be better, at least some of them, one year later. Mueller, Bratt, Nico, Zacha...whomever. it should balance out to some degree.

It shouldn't go to **** just on Greene, and I'm one of his bigger detractors this season.

Greene is getting 20+ minues a night. He has more of an impact on the game than most on this team.

He caused the 2nd goal against because he is slow and bad, got burned badly then hooked Atkinson, which gave them the penalty shot, which they scored on and what was the game winner.