GDT: Devils @ Penguins 7:00 MSG

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

lol to the guy who claimed that Luke Hughes was only in NJ this season to appease his brother

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he is already our best DMan

 

[njdevils1982]

Luke had 19-5 CF and a 90% xG%

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speaking of which....did you catch SNL last weekend? chalamet hosted ...it was a decent showing

 

[Devils731]

That looks like way too many players above 50% for both sides?

I didn’t look or compare for this game but you’d need to add a modifier for time on ice to have an equal distribution. Otherwise, you can have more than half above or below water.

 

[Blender]

Bratt f***ing hates the olds

Ah yes the crab move goal.

 

[jkrdevil]

TG has been posting the standings nightly for the last two weeks and it's been annoying. It's f***ing November, Tom.

Yes, especially in-season standings based just on points are inaccurate given the differences in games played. If you are going to do in-season standings it needs to be in Pts. % and doing the games back math.

 

[NjDevsRR]

 

[njdevils1982]

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[Guadana]

I don't miss on Graves much.

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

Vanececk was solid although he didn't need to be spectacular this game because the team defended well infront of him. Vitek made a big save I believe in the 3rd where he had to jam up the post on a rebound that came from the back boards where it could of changed the game drastically.

My favorite moment was that Holtz goal. Mercer 100% made up for that bad pass with that nice feed. Even Palat got a pretty good earned secondary assist on that one. I'm glad Holtz scored. He looked pretty thrilled after he did. He has been more noticeable on both ends of the ice. You can see the hardwork and more attention to detail paying off.

Hamilton only played 16 mins tonight. Miller played 17 in his debut and Bahl only played 12. I'm thinking Meier isn't coming back Saturday or Jack so I have a feeling they will run this lineup again. If Jack somehow comes back than I think Bahl will be the oddman out.

 

[Saugus]

Just saw in the box score that Mercer's assist on Holtz's goal was his first of the season. Uh what?

I mean, I knew he was in a slump until he scored some goals the last couple games, but damn. That was even worse than I thought.

 

[New Jersey Devils]

What a win. Down your top 3 players and pull it off. Take it into the weekend and hope Jack is able to join in.

 

[devilsblood]

Just saw in the box score that Mercer's assist on Holtz's goal was his first of the season. Uh what?

I mean, I knew he was in a slump until he scored some goals the last couple games, but damn. That was even worse than I thought.

He really needed that too after missing the breakaway pass to Holtz earlier.

 

[Rhodes 81]

Miller played well but I just don't see how you take out Smith's PK minutes.

I said before the season and I'll say again that 7D makes a lot of sense for this group for this reason alone. The only problem is that Smith being in the lineup at all means he'll get even strength shifts where he has just been abysmal. We really need some of the other D to step up on the PK

 

[devilsblood]

I said before the season and I'll say again that 7D makes a lot of sense for this group for this reason alone. The only problem is that Smith being in the lineup at all means he'll get even strength shifts where he has just been abysmal. We really need some of the other D to step up on the PK

It def makes sense with all the fwd's out. When they come back? Probably not as much.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

I'd rather play Smith at forward if you want him to play PK minutes on D

and I dont think you need to do that at all

 

[Blackjack]

I didn’t look or compare for this game but you’d need to add a modifier for time on ice to have an equal distribution. Otherwise, you can have more than half above or below water.

Yeah, and when I looked again it seemed more even, I must have just read it wrong the first time.

 

[Hisch13r]

Just saw in the box score that Mercer's assist on Holtz's goal was his first of the season. Uh what?

I mean, I knew he was in a slump until he scored some goals the last couple games, but damn. That was even worse than I thought.

He was barely an NHL player for like 10 games

 

[guitarguyvic]

Way better showing after more of the same slop in the first 7 minutes. Still saw some sloppy unforced turnovers in the third, but overall a clear step up from what we’ve seen defensively most of the season. Vanacek definitely bailed out the team a couple of times, nice to see that as well.

But Dougie though….he really seems to have his head up his ass a lot of times, and combining that with his slow speed it’s just…ugly. I can easily envision those last few years of his contract being a real nightmare.

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

Just saw in the box score that Mercer's assist on Holtz's goal was his first of the season. Uh what?

I mean, I knew he was in a slump until he scored some goals the last couple games, but damn. That was even worse than I thought.

He lead the forwards in icetime tonight.

He's gotten better the last few games. He could of had multiple points tonight. Over that rough stretch to start the season he was not visible most nights. It was pretty rough but I was shocked as well when I checked the box score and saw it was his first assist too. If he was getting minutes on the top powerplay unit he would of had more but that unit needs to stay the same once everyone is healthy.

 

[Triumph]

Devils only have one other game this season where they scored 3 or more 5v5 goals, the loss against Washington.

 

[Offseason Champs]

Thought Holtz had a pretty good game. He still has some ways to go but I think he's been looking rather promising overall.

 

[Dialamo]

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ChocolateRobert nowhere to be seen after Holtz scored.

 

[devilsblood]

Bahl played the least of any d-man, lousy numbers too.

For all you Smith fans out there hoping he gets more time looking fwd.

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

LOL I didn't even notice that sudden change in Holtz facial expression. Ruff be like, "Don't get too excited, you're getting benched for scoring a goal".

 

[guitarguyvic]

I’ll say as well…team had a spark for the majority of this game that they’ve seemed to lack for lot of this season so far too. I’m hoping this game winds up being this season’s version of game #3 against anaheim last year.