Post-Game Talk: Devils lose to Jets 8-4

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

I don't think he coaches in the NHL again

Lol why? He’s in STL right now as an assistant. Dude had a drinking problem, he didn’t murder people

 

[ScottyK]

The only thing that might make Fitzy itchy pulling the trigger a bit early would be he saw it cost Shero his job....twice.

 

[jkrdevil]

It’s time to bring in vets. I don’t mean mid-late-30 year olds, but they do need to bring in some late 20’s to 30 year olds up front. They need a Dianus Zubrus type up front. Could use a pre-crippled Langenbrunner type as well.

It’s time to ship out Zacha.

 

[Bleedred]

Dineen was a joke with the Panthers, but it's been almost 10 years, maybe he's gotten better?

Worst case scenario if we promote him and he doesn't work out, we can throw him back in Utica next year lol.

What? I mean we did it with Nas lol.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Dineen was a joke with the Panthers, but it's been almost 10 years, maybe he's gotten better?

Worst case scenario if we promote him and he doesn't work out, we can throw him back in Utica next year lol.

What? I mean we did it with Nas lol.

At least let's figure out now if he can be the guy or not. Put the interem tag on him. If he turns the team around, give him the job.

If he doesn't then at least we know and can move on to finding the right guy in the offseason

 

[Mgd31]

It’s time to bring in vets. I don’t mean mid-late-30 year olds, but they do need to bring in some late 20’s to 30 year olds up front. They need a Dianus Zubrus type up front. Could use a pre-crippled Langenbrunner type as well.

It’s time to ship out Zacha.

sounds like a job for JT Miller

 

[Bleedred]

The only thing that might make Fitzy itchy pulling the trigger a bit early would be he saw it cost Shero his job....twice.

Yup

The last GM here (under these owners) that let a coach stay too long wound up following him right out the door only about 5 or 6 weeks later.

 

[jkrdevil]

If you fire Ruff in season the whole staff has to go.

 

[Camille the Eel]

I can't pick individual culprits. This was a team loss top to bottom. The talk about a coaching change also seems ridiculous to me. Let Ruff continue to work with these kids and someone else will reap next year what he's planting now.

But:

We have to stop letting other clubs skate through the neutral zone just picking up speed. Our D has to stop backing in and letting guys walk right into the slot to shoot point blank at our goal, or else make cross ice passes to guys coming in late wide open to do the same. We need to stop turning the puck over . . . repeatedly, like three times on the same sequence leading to their go ahead goal or the one after that. We need to hit back when teams hit us. Maybe even initiate physical play.

We have plenty of skill. Too much maybe. It's a matter of getting back to the fundamental things so that the skill can tell.

We have 3/4s of the season in front of us but it won't mean much unless we start to fix things now. In the last two years I haven't seen us worse than we've looked in three of the last four games (Nashville, Minny and Winny).

 

[ScottyK]

It’s time to bring in vets. I don’t mean mid-late-30 year olds, but they do need to bring in some late 20’s to 30 year olds up front. They need a Dianus Zubrus type up front. Could use a pre-crippled Langenbrunner type as well.

It’s time to ship out Zacha.

I know he's a corpse but I would like to see Eric Staal maybe play that Boqvist role.

 

[Bleedred]

If you fire Ruff in season the whole staff has to go.

One thing is for sure

No one on the staff is going in season unless they take Ruff with them.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Dineen was a joke with the Panthers, but it's been almost 10 years, maybe he's gotten better?

Worst case scenario if we promote him and he doesn't work out, we can throw him back in Utica next year lol.

What? I mean we did it with Nas lol.

To be fair, that Panthers team was not sustainable. They signed every free agent in the UFA pool in the summer of 2011 and he got them to a division title, albeit in a soft Southeast division back in the day. They were also our toughest test in the East that year in our cup run. I think he’d be way better than Ruff. I’d be ok with him as interim but probably a bit underwhelmed if it was a summer promotion type of hire with some better options out there.

 

[vtdevils2k]

It’s time to bring in vets. I don’t mean mid-late-30 year olds, but they do need to bring in some late 20’s to 30 year olds up front. They need a Dianus Zubrus type up front. Could use a pre-crippled Langenbrunner type as well.

It’s time to ship out Zacha.

What vets? FYI not giving up the next 2 first round picks...e.g. this year and next year.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Empty platitudes. He has zero answers.

 

[Bleedred]

I know he's a corpse but I would like to see Eric Staal maybe play that Boqvist role.

Honestly, he might be better than Boqvist and McLeod.

I'm pretty sure 36 year old Zajac would have been, if he hadn't retired lol.

 

[jkrdevil]

What vets? FYI not giving up the next 2 first round picks...e.g. this year and next year.

I’m not talking about now. Down the line come free agency.

 

[beekay414]

Dineen was a joke with the Panthers, but it's been almost 10 years, maybe he's gotten better?

Worst case scenario if we promote him and he doesn't work out, we can throw him back in Utica next year lol.

What? I mean we did it with Nas lol.

Those Florida teams were baaaaaaaaaaaaaad talent wise. Once they started getting guys in, they started to turn a corner. I'm not putting that stint on Dineen.

 

[ScottyK]

Honestly, he might be better than Boqvist and McLeod.

I'm pretty sure 36 year old Zajac would have been, if he hadn't retired lol.

I think Trav was just worn out. If this season goes off the rails and he was apart of it again I'd pray for his sanity lol

 

[jkrdevil]

Honestly, he might be better than Boqvist and McLeod.

I'm pretty sure 36 year old Zajac would have been, if he hadn't retired lol.

If Zajac came back, Mercer would be in Utica.

 

[Chris Lean]

Empty platitudes. He has zero answers.

He… he doesn’t even seem upset or angry? He seems to think this was an acceptable effort?

Yeah… ok Lindy

 

[Lindys Lazy Eye]

Lol why? He’s in STL right now as an assistant. Dude had a drinking problem, he didn’t murder people

Sorry I confused Montgomery with Peters.

My bad.

 

[ScottyK]

Those Florida teams were baaaaaaaaaaaaaad talent wise. Once they started getting guys in, they started to turn a corner. I'm not putting that stint on Dineen.

His best yr with them was his first....it was downhill from there

 

[Bleedred]

Those Florida teams were baaaaaaaaaaaaaad talent wise. Once they started getting guys in, they started to turn a corner. I'm not putting that stint on Dineen.

They did finally get rid of a BAD GM that really had too many years to f*** shit up, including the Vegas expansion draft.

It's hilarious that his first year gone they had a great season and made the playoffs.

 

[Auto Pilot]

The coaching staff has to go

 

[Emperoreddy]

Ruff's goalie rotation has not been good. Bernier has been ice cold due to running Blackwood into the ground.

He shouldn't have started the wild game after a tough game against San Jose.

He did this before when Blackwood got his bell rung and taken out of the game for concussion protocol. He went right back to Blackwood, which was q mistake, and he struggled. Then he went back to him again against Tampa and he started off poorly before being able to settle down in the second half of the game.

It worked out in that Tampa game, but it was needless to play it like that.

He is overplaying Blackwood and leaving Bernier ice cold and it's hurting both goalies.