GDT: Devils @ Senators - 1:00 PM - MSG

[Camille the Eel]

The Marchand elbow on Johansson was worse and I’m pretty sure he only got 5 games even with his history. NHL discipline is a crapshoot/joke.

At least this happened impulsively and at high speed during a play. But we’ve given this horse a decent burial I guess.

 

[Blender]

Eh 13:31 ATOI is more third line than second line, especially given he plays on the PP. But yes he's shown the celling to someday be more than an elite third-liner and I knew the panic here over him potentially being cut was nonsense, I was annoyed enough he wasn't playing early. Like someone else pointed out the takeoff kinda started when he did finally get back in the lineup.

Zetterlund is 6th on the team among forwards in even strength TOI/GP with Palat out. He's playing a top 6 role, and since he's playing with Nico he's also playing hard minutes.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

How is that wrong? The third line is indeed playing pretty well with him.

He's on the top line.

Oh wait, that's a Nico joke.

Well played good sir.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

He’s such a beast. He’s similar to Coleman in that he plays that gritty style that the old school fans love, but his underlying numbers are also tremendous so the analytics guys love him.

 

[Blender]

He’s such a beast. He’s similar to Coleman in that he plays that gritty style that the old school fans love, but his underlying numbers are also tremendous so the analytics guys love him.

That's a 32 year old "tough, physical" defenseman bouncing off him like he's the boards as well. Most players that have hit him have not had a good time of it.

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

Holy crap, are the Devils good?

They’re not bad.

 

[glenwo2]

At least this happened impulsively and at high speed during a play. But we’ve given this horse a decent burial I guess.

I'd rather someone bury Marchand....



....


......within the constraints of an NHL Game, I mean.

(not advocating anything else....really....)

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

That's a 32 year old "tough, physical" defenseman bouncing off him like he's the boards as well. Most players that have hit him have not had a good time of it.

Hamonic winds up like he's ready to plaster him to the plexi, too. Sorry pal. You're lucky the Sens are still letting you play pretend.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

They’re not bad.

I need to break out the Lemairometer

 

[Blender]

They’re not bad.

 

[Devs3cups]

That series was so good.

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

Not even close. It was slow around the horn then get picked off and give up a SHG more often than anything. These guys are moving in and out of a 1-3-1 going on a rotation and yo-yoing back and forth within their mini zones to pull the PK out of position until there's a nice seam pass or shot. I love the flow and speed of this PP so much it just makes me even more angry that we stuck with that crap for so long last year. Why did they stick with the same BS for so long? The players are almost identical... tells you a lot about the coaching.

They were very slow and almost never used the bumper guy or the net front guy (did they even ever do it?). It was really just a 3 on 4.

With the current pp, I wish they'd rotate players more though (they seemed to do it sometimes, but not a lot), it makes it that much harder for the other team to defend.

We also actually move the puck to the slot now. Under Recchi I swear it just moved between up top to the flanks. That pass by Bratt to Nico in the slot for a one timer is something we never did. The play Haula scored on where Zetterlund bumped it to Haula at the top of the circle/high slot is something I see used around the league that we never used under Recchi and have done quite a bit this year

Yea I forget which goal it was, but I was so amazed cuz this team actually pulled it off, even though it's literally what every other team does regularly LOL

 

[Richer's Ghost]

I need to break out the Lemairometer

Found it... sorta. Why did I put all those files on photobucket which went full subscription lmao. 10,000+ files behind a fee now. UGH.

 

[MasterofGrond]

Miss the 0-1-4

 

[Saugus]

Way late on this, but I watched this game with my brother, my infant son, and my Ranger fan father in law. That was fun. Little guy wasn't paying much attention to the game, but he got excited when we did, which was very cute.

I'm sure somebody else already mentioned this, but one observation I had from the game was that the Devils got the job done with almost entirely secondary scoring. Goals from the second PP unit, fourth line, third line, first PK unit, and the fourth line again. Very cool to see that we can still dominate a game even when the big guns are relatively quiet.

 

[britdevil]

He’s such a beast. He’s similar to Coleman in that he plays that gritty style that the old school fans love, but his underlying numbers are also tremendous so the analytics guys love him.

My thicc treetrunk boi is really turning it on. Love it.

 

[OmNomNom]

My thicc treetrunk boi is really turning it on. Love it.

turning.... what on?