NJDevs26
Once upon a time...
- Mar 21, 2007
- 67,435
- 31,769
I'm shocked I found it tbh...I figured I'd be going down a rabbit hole but I searched Marty in the forum and sorted results by date and found it.
Look at how many defensemen drafted in 2017 made the NHL in 2019-20. It’s a handful. In order of games played: Heiskanen, Jokiharju, Ferraro (older birthday & drafted from the NCAA), Maker and Fleury (he played in 41 reg season games but not in the bubble playoffs).Who said to rush him? You don't think that a 2nd round pick from 2018 that has had two successful post-draft seasons has any chance of showing up to camp ready for the NHL? 0%? Really?
I won't deny that the team has made dumb decisions on young players in the past, and has rushed kids that weren't ready. No one is saying to do that.
The Devil’s defense and goaltending are much better heading into this season. Kulikov and Murray are actually good defensively. The top 4 guys are pretty solid. It will be interesting if they bring in some PTO’s because the main issue is depth. Lastly, Bahl could be up with the Devils by default. No AHL until February, and the Devils might get to carry more guys. (If we have a season).
Good old butcher
Good old butcher
found this interesting
Couldn't agree more.Severson is ripe to break out, especially if Murray's skillset can maximize Severson's to the extent we think it can. If Murray can stay healthy, that's a dynamite pair.
Murray's durability is going to be a major lynchpin for this team.
Couldn't agree more.
If the guy has a legit partner, good goaltending, and a reasonable system, I believe he will shine.
I still think he did for quite a while. He seems to have improved It drastically sometime around 2017.Remember the ‘Severson has a muffin shot’ meme?
Remember the ‘Severson has a muffin shot’ meme?
Accurate doesn’t equal shot power. Especially considering he had eight goals in 69 games WITH being good at picking his spots to shoot.
Looks like he’s tied for 25th in total goals for dmen since 2017. And 11th at 5 on 5 since 2017.I still think he did for quite a while. He seems to have improved It drastically sometime around 2017.
After scoring 4 goals in his first 8 NHL games, he scored only 5 in his following 203 games.
He now has 28 goals in his last 219 games.
Really like reading this: it's great to see both because it makes clear that there's enough depth in this organization now that rushing people doesn't seem necessary, and because I absolutely do think it's true the club's been too quick to bring, for example, first rounders up right away or what have you instead of letting them marinate a bit longer in the AHL.Actually Marty's comments on the team rushing guys were even more expansive than I remembered
Devils 2020-21 team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - part IV
Devils 2020-21 team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - part IV
His shot is also nothing special, but at the same time, I don’t think he gets as good of looks as Severson ever did, probably because he isn’t as good as Severson is. Is that still sacrilege to say around here? That Damon Severson is better than Adam Larsson? Because it was ultra controversial to say this between 2016-2019 around these here parts. Every once in a while Larsson would get the primary assist on a sweet deflection goal like he was Brian Rafalski. It looked like he could do it whenever he wanted, which is what made it so bizarre that it only really happened 3-4 times a year at most.Our boy Adam Larsson representing the top 15.
He holds the trifecta of having a painfully slow release, lacks power, and can't hit the net.
The thing about Larson is he was he really bloomed defensively in his last season in NJ but I can’t imagine why anyone would defend his offense. I actually remember Chiarelli, trying to sell people on the trade, claiming that Larsson had a lot more offensive potential and it definitely seemed wishful thinking at the time. (And it was.)His shot is also nothing special, but at the same time, I don’t think he gets as good of looks as Severson ever did, probably because he isn’t as good as Severson is. Is that still sacrilege to say around here? That Damon Severson is better than Adam Larsson? Because it was ultra controversial to say this between 2016-2019 around these here parts. Every once in a while Larsson would get the primary assist on a sweet deflection goal like he was Brian Rafalski. It looked like he could do it whenever he wanted, which is what made it so bizarre that it only really happened 3-4 times a year at most.
And I’d still be fine with Larsson as a UFA next year, so I’m not knocking him. But that’s for a different discussion.
Severson’s shooting percentage over the last 3 seasons is something like 7%+, so maybe he’s a little lucky/experiencing a market correction due to hardly any goals over the 3 years before that, but it’s pretty easy to see his shot has improved an incredible amount.
I’m not sure what the average shooting percentage is for a defenseman, but I think it’s around 9% on average around the entire league. It’s safe to say that it’s lower than that for defensemen, typically because their shots are coming from 50-60 feet from the net a lot of the time.