Confirmed with Link: Devils re-sign Kyle Palmieri
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Hellraiser
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We've already been spoiled at the position, but think about Wedgewood/Blackwood taking over after if they end up panning out. That would be a solid 3 decades of high quality goaltending at least
Hellraiser
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I think Wedgewood is getting very overrated here.
He had a good season last year in the AHL and managed to do a spot on Cory impersonation for 4 NHL games. But he was a bad goaltender his entire pro career before last season.
This year will tell if he's really turned the corner or if last year was a fluke.
Regardless of all that, we need better goaltending from the backup than what Kinkaid provided last year. Especially if the backup has to start more than 15 games.
Hellraiser
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He completely **** the bed in the AHL playoffs too which is why I mentioned Blackwood as well. We will see what happens with Wedge this season
The Wumpus
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Super pumped!
And yeah, there are some stupid things being said by certain posters, but a majority of the main board seems to agree that this is a good contract.
And yeah, there are some stupid things being said by certain posters, but a majority of the main board seems to agree that this is a good contract.
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Time for another joke.
Palmieri is making less than Clarkson!
Clarkson might have been the flukiest 30 goal scorer in I don't know how many years. I swear at least 10 of those goals were off his foot or legs or hand or his ass or whatever other body part. Now I know all players score goals like that, just not with the frequency that Clarkson did. And they also continue to score year after year, unlike Clarkson was able to do. So comparing Palmieri to Clarkson is asinine.
His play in the AHL playoffs was only alarming to me because it seemed like it might have been his play regressing back closer to the mean of what he was before last season. He was very good in his 5 game run with us and he should probably get a raise or a trophy for managing to be the only goaltender on our team to allow just a single goal in any game vs the POS Blue Jackets last season. But I think back to 03-04 Scott Clemmensen, who had a very similar run of 4 games that were comparable to Wedgewood's 5 this past year. Even though they weren't 4 consecutive games. And we saw that until about 4 or 5 years later, Clemmensen was never good again at the NHL level and only was a career backup.
Palmieri is making less than Clarkson!
Clarkson might have been the flukiest 30 goal scorer in I don't know how many years. I swear at least 10 of those goals were off his foot or legs or hand or his ass or whatever other body part. Now I know all players score goals like that, just not with the frequency that Clarkson did. And they also continue to score year after year, unlike Clarkson was able to do. So comparing Palmieri to Clarkson is asinine.
His play in the AHL playoffs was only alarming to me because it seemed like it might have been his play regressing back closer to the mean of what he was before last season. He was very good in his 5 game run with us and he should probably get a raise or a trophy for managing to be the only goaltender on our team to allow just a single goal in any game vs the POS Blue Jackets last season. But I think back to 03-04 Scott Clemmensen, who had a very similar run of 4 games that were comparable to Wedgewood's 5 this past year. Even though they weren't 4 consecutive games. And we saw that until about 4 or 5 years later, Clemmensen was never good again at the NHL level and only was a career backup.
Hellraiser
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Time for another joke.
Palmieri is making less than Clarkson!
Clarkson might have been the flukiest 30 goal scorer in I don't know how many years. I swear at least 10 of those goals were off his foot or legs or hand or his ass or whatever other body part. Now I know all players score goals like that, just not with the frequency that Clarkson did. And they also continue to score year after year, unlike Clarkson was able to do. So comparing Palmieri to Clarkson is asinine.
His play in the AHL playoffs was only alarming to me because it seemed like it might have been his play regressing back closer to the mean of what he was before last season. He was very good in his 5 game run with us and he should probably get a raise or a trophy for managing to be the only goaltender on our team to allow just a single goal in any game vs the POS Blue Jackets last season. But I think back to 03-04 Scott Clemmensen, who had a very similar run of 4 games that were comparable to Wedgewood's 5 this past year. Even though they weren't 4 consecutive games. And we saw that until about 4 or 5 years later, Clemmensen was never good again at the NHL level and only was a career backup.
Until the Panthers thought Clemmer was a number 1 goalie
"I grew up playing youth hockey here in South Jersey"
Shero doing a good job ingratiating himself within the community.
Emperoreddy
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I'm seriously ready to say that "Make The Devils Great Again" should be the theme of the season.
I'd post our dancing gif, but it is so out of date it wouldn't fit. Someone really needs to update that thing with the new faces.
I'd post our dancing gif, but it is so out of date it wouldn't fit. Someone really needs to update that thing with the new faces.
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Ah yes, the amazing Kevin Dineen. Don't even get me started on that imbecile. Knew nothing about how to be an NHL head coach, outside of pacing around the bench with a mean tough guy look on his face, *****ing at the Devils zamboni driver after morning skates and changing goalies more than his underwear. My friend and I always said that Scott Clemmensen had the potential to be one of the best goaltenders to ever play the game, you know why? Because he managed to give up brutally soft goals at an alarmingly high rate, that was WAY above most any goaltender in the league. Yet he actually wound up posting near league average save percentages between 08-09 and 11-12. It was beyond incomprehensible. We always said ''How does he manage a save percentage above 91% when damn near 50% of the goals he allows are brutal? If only like 25% of the goals he allowed were bad, the dude would be breaking save percentage records annually''.Until the Panthers thought Clemmer was a number 1 goalie
I'm seriously ready to say that "Make The Devils Great Again" should be the theme of the season.
I'd post our dancing gif, but it is so out of date it wouldn't fit. Someone really needs to update that thing with the new faces.
I think I'd like to see that used as the Devils official slogan of the season. Do you think Donald Trump will sue if we try to use it though?
Maybe we can also call up his relative Nick and ask him if he'd like to come back to the NHL again and rejoin the Devils? Haven't had a nice Nick Palmieri joke in a while!
I'm not ready to give up on Kinky yet either. He looked pretty damn good his first season backing Cory up. Granted he was shaky last year, but he can still improve.
tr83
Nope, still embarassed
I think with the guys behind him, the number of chances he's going to get are limited. I do hope he can improve, but giving up one or two softies a game is unforgivable
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TheRobotDevil13
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The in lou we trust era is over. Im moving on to Hail Shero! what he's done this off season is beyond words. Amazing contract and very happy to see the Palms deal done
TheRobotDevil13
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I'm seriously ready to say that "Make The Devils Great Again" should be the theme of the season.
I'd post our dancing gif, but it is so out of date it wouldn't fit. Someone really needs to update that thing with the new faces.
Get me the dancing gif and the players you want on it. I can knock that out i have time today
NJDevs26
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This was version 2.0, I don't know if we had a later version...we do need replacements for Lars and Gio (next midget up) at least...Hall's definitely gotta be on there.
http://i.imgur.com/pbTQa0N.gif
Emperoreddy
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TheRobotDevil13
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I think Hynes should take Zajac's place and Zajac should go where Larrson is.
Right now Hall should replace Elias.
And we need to find someone to replace Gio.
I never even realized Stemp was in there maybe DSP/Bennett/Zacha/Lovejoy/Severson should replace him?
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Emperoreddy
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Makes sense but there is something so satisfying about Zajac in that spot to me. it just works.
