Devils 2020-21 team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - part XIX

[JimEIV]

Draisaitl led the Oilers in scoring last year. Guess that #1OA McDavid is a bum...

When we start talking about one player with 97 points and the other with 110....Then your comment might make sense. Nico would need two seasons to get to those totals

 

[TheUnseenHand]

So you're saying Nico will lead the team in scoring after he's played 15 games?

Can we bet?

Only if all the rest of the guys miss 11 games at some point. You have to know how asinine what you are saying sounds.

 

[Lou is God]

Only Jim would be ragging on Jack Hughes

 

[MichaelJ]

Hey hey hey. . I love that Zacha is proving all the doubters and haters wrong, but lets not mix Nico into this, especially when he just had his best game of the season (by far). He's coming back from a bad injury, in the middle of a season, with very little training, lets be easy on him, he'll be fine!

I don’t see how Nico doesn’t get a couple weeks grace period

 

[JimEIV]

Only Jim would be ragging on Jack Hughes

This is about Nico.

 

[JimEIV]

I said earlier "Nico would need two seasons to get those totals" I was wrong:

If you take Nico's last 3 years combined they don't equal McDavid's 97 points

2018-19 69 games -
2019-20 58 games
2020-21 4 games - 131 games total = 84 points

 

[Lou is God]

This is about Nico.

That makes even less sense, did you really expect him to overtake everyone in scoring after a handful of games?

 

[Nicomo Cosca]

When we start talking about one player with 97 points and the other with 110....Then your comment might make sense. Nico would need two seasons to get to those totals

What an odd shtick you have here. The night after a big comeback win where Nico played very well and scored a goal (and is also apparently the only player on the team that knows how to win face offs) and you still feel the need to shit on him? Bizarre.

 

[JimEIV]

That makes even less sense, did you really expect him to overtake everyone in scoring after a handful of games?

No...But I expected more than 1 point in 4 games

 

[Darkauron]

Enabling Jim and his rambling in 2021.. you would think people would learn not to take the bait by now.

 

[JimEIV]

What an odd shtick you have here. The night after a big comeback win where Nico played very well and scored a goal (and is also apparently the only player on the team that knows how to win face offs) and you still feel the need to shit on him? Bizarre.

People were shitting on Zacha during a 6 game scoring streak....What's the difference?

IT's 8 now BTW.

 

[AfroThunder396]

Zacha had 0 points in his first 4 games, five weeks later he's getting his jersey retired.

 

[Lou is God]

No...But I expected more than 1 point in 4 games

I'm sure most did, but I'm also sure most understood the circumstances and also know coming in cold into the best league in the world is never easy for anyone. I think you just like to be a contrarian just like last week when you WERE ragging on Hughes.

 

[MartyOwns]

a silver dollar to whoever goes on the main board and creates a post entitled "Is It Time to Talk About Pavel Zacha?"

 

[JimEIV]

Zacha had 0 points in his first 4 games, five weeks later he's getting his jersey retired.

It's just freaking hilarious to me the two players, Wood and Zacha, that everyone has been trying to trade/get rid of for last two years are responsible for like a 1/4 of the teams goals...... 27% of the teams goals are from Wood and Zacha

 

[Devils731]

a silver dollar to whoever goes on the main board and creates a post entitled "Is It Time to Talk About Pavel Zacha?"

It’s such a bad idea...yet it already happened last night.

Pavel Zacha is raising hell!

 

[glenwo2]

sure, why not? always makes things a little more interesting. what's the bet? if i lose, i can draft a long, epic poem praising lou or something.

How about if you lose, you will give me a "like" on one of my posts?

 

[JimEIV]

I'm sure most did, but I'm also sure most understood the circumstances and also know coming in cold into the best league in the world is never easy for anyone. I think you just like to be a contrarian just like last week when you WERE ragging on Hughes.

Hughes is now doing what he is supposed to....Nico is not.

And for me this is largely spurred on by the horrific year both of them had last year...If you go back to last season Nico had 3 points in his last 11 games...So we are at 4 points in last 15 now. Yeah circumstances...I know...You know what else are "circumstances" Being the highest paid player and wearing the C are also "circumstances"

 

[MartyOwns]

It’s such a bad idea...yet it already happened last night.

Pavel Zacha is raising hell!

god dammit lol i'm way behind. 2/10 title though

 

[Lou is God]

Hughes is no doing what he is supposed to....Nico is not.

And for me this is largely spurred on by the horrific year both of them had last year...If you go back to last season Nico had 3 points in his last 11 games...So we are at 4 points in last 15 now. Yeah circumstances...I know...You know what else are "circumstances" Being the highest paid player and wearing the C are also "circumstance"

Wait....what?? How are these circumstances? That makes no sense.

 

[Nicomo Cosca]

People were shitting on Zacha during a 6 game scoring streak....What's the difference?

IT's 8 now BTW.

So your answer is to resort to shitting on a more popular player to prove a point?

 

[Nicomo Cosca]

Wait....what?? How are these circumstances? That makes no sense.

He’s also not the highest paid player btw. That would be Subban.

 

[JimEIV]

So your answer is to resort to shitting on a more popular player to prove a point?

More popular for NO reason... Yes it is my point...You can literally have a guy with 13 points in 15 games and people tell you he needs to be gone from the team...While another with 4 points in his last 15 be considered "A Savior"

Think about that dichotomy for a moment...

 

[TrufleShufle]

Hughes is now doing what he is supposed to....Nico is not.

And for me this is largely spurred on by the horrific year both of them had last year...If you go back to last season Nico had 3 points in his last 11 games...So we are at 4 points in last 15 now. Yeah circumstances...I know...You know what else are "circumstances" Being the highest paid player and wearing the C are also "circumstances"

HF arguments always get so insanely muddy with what people are trying to say. What exactly is your point, I haven't disagreed with anything you have said because I haven't actually seen a point. Is Zacha better than Nico? Is Nico just not a good player period and you always knew and this is an I told you so? What is the actual topic at hand.

 

[Nicomo Cosca]

More popular for NO reason... Yes it is my point...You can literally have a guy with 13 points in 15 games and people tell you he needs to be gone from the team...While another with 4 points in his last 15 be considered "A Savior"

Think about that dichotomy for a moment...

“No reason?” That’s absurd. Nico has been a better player thus far in his career than Zacha. It’s not even debatable. This is straight up trolling now.