Post-Game Talk: Devils v Preds PGT. Collapse #20485720 Edition

[I Hate Tie DOMI]

http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/...ry_during_post-game_talk_ends_it_quickly.html

How would Pete even know? He was probably staring at Gionta on the bench or waving "Hi" to Harrold in the press box at the time.

 

[SeidoN]

How would Pete even know? He was probably staring at Gionta on the bench or waving "Hi" to Harrold in the press box at the time.

5.40am. damn you Pete, this is your fault haha

 

[Bleedred]

Steve Bernier -15, 9 points and has played every game this season. He also had over 12 games on the top line and occasionally plays on the PP.


If production can be used against Josefson why doesn't Pete use it against Bernier? At least Josefson can win faceoffs(but can still play on the wing) , is competent defensively, and can actually carry the puck over the blue line and doesn't have to dump and chase every single time.


Why not Loktionov he has the same amount of points and averages less ice time than Bernier and also has played 15 less games than Bernier.


And both Josefson and Loktionov are plus players while Steve Bernier is a -15. Plus/minus may be worthless comparing players on different teams but it does say something when they are on the same team.

Agreed completely. Bernier is a USELESS sack of suck. Just a bag of hot garbage. He hasn't done anything useful since scoring that OT goal against Buffalo. I'm having trouble trying to remember him putting on some screens since then, but I can't do it.

But he's got dat big body. Seriously I think Gionta has been more useful since returning from injury, as much as everyone wants to beat up on him.

DeBoer playing Bernier over Josefson and Lokti, is like when he played Ponikarovsky over both of them last year, despite Poni being pretty ****in useless himself.

 

[Emperoreddy]

You can dislike it all you want, but the players will like Pete for how he went off in that presser. Having some journalist telling him how one of his players could have cleared the puck, well that question deserved exactly what it got.

Wasn't it TG who asked that?

He must if taken it personally because he vanished off twitter. Just left with Chere the **** stirrer.

 

[Benedict Parisechuk]

Agreed completely. Bernier is a USELESS sack of suck. Just a bag of hot garbage. He hasn't done anything useful since scoring that OT goal against Buffalo. I'm having trouble trying to remember him putting on some screens since then, but I can't do it.

But he's got dat big body. Seriously I think Gionta has been more useful since returning from injury, as much as everyone wants to beat up on him.

DeBoer playing Bernier over Josefson and Lokti, is like when he played Ponikarovsky over both of them last year, despite Poni being pretty ****in useless himself.

Yea, Bernier has really worn out his welcome now. 3 goals in 55 games with a -15 is horrendous. And he actually spent time in the top 6 and with the exception of a few screens, he STILL couldn't contribute. He really does look like Poni 2.0 out there now.

 

[Uli Hiemer]

Bernier has been awful, that's why I kept laughing with Chico praising him constantly this game.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Did Bernier actually lead to the tieing or winning goal? I didn't see it so it's a real question.

If not why are we talking about the 4th line? Seems like we are looking for scape goats again and Gio is playing better and Harrold is hurt so we need someone new.

 

[NJDevs26]

Well at least the -15 hasn't gotten worse over the last several games, seems like he's been stuck on -15 for a month lol

 

[njdevils1982]

Did Bernier actually lead to the tieing or winning goal? I didn't see it so it's a real question.

If not why are we talking about the 4th line? Seems like we are looking for scape goats again and Gio is playing better and Harrold is hurt so we need someone new.

escape goats and superb owls.

 

[Uli Hiemer]

I'm anticipating TG's post.

lol....Deboer definitely reads his blog, and if he reads the fan section comments that probably drives him even more nuts!

 

[R8Devs]

I'm not looking for a scapegoat. I want Josefson, Larsson, and Loktionov in the lineup regularly but there are double standards on this team.


They are afraid to make mistakes so they don't take risks and then they probably overthink everything because DeBoer has killed any ounce of confidence they had.

 

[Status Quo*]

I bet Pete posts on this board Which account are ya Pete?

 

[VaxjoDevil]

Wasn't it TG who asked that?

He must if taken it personally because he vanished off twitter. Just left with Chere the **** stirrer.

Yeah, he has kind of disappeared...wow. I would be a bit surprised, TG is tougher than that I think.

 

[Uli Hiemer]

TG takes his time...

but he's probably fuming. I wanted to see Torts vs Brooks style.

 

[NJDevs26]

Or TG got called into Lou's office for another talking to, who the **** knows.

 

[Uli Hiemer]

Or TG got called into Lou's office for another talking to, who the **** knows.

Lou hung up the phone on him last week, but in a "polite way"


Intimidation:

 

[MadDevil]

I checked the score about halfway through the third, saw the Devils were winning, and felt optimistic. I should have known better.

 

[Uli Hiemer]

TG published his post and didn't say it was him who questioned Deboer. LOL. Didn't include the coaching jab.

So soft...

“I think you have to look at the silver lining and that’s we got a point out of here tonight,” DeBoer said. “A bounce off a stick right on their tape in the last 10 seconds, I don’t know if we’d play it much differently. Those things happen in an 82-game schedule and the bottom line is we played four games this week in six days and we found a way to get point tonight in the fourth one under a tough circumstance. So, we’ll take it and move on.”

DeBoer became agitated, though, when questioned about the Devils not being able to protect a lead in the final minute for the second night in a row.

“It happens to everybody,” he said. “You guys all look for tendencies – oh, they can’t hold the lead, they can’t score. You know what? Give me a break. It’s four games in six nights. We battled hard. We got an unfortunate bounce at the end. We’ll take the point and we’ll move on.”

- See more at: http://blogs.northjersey.com/blogs/...rtime_loss_in_nashville/#sthash.hnUjAx3k.dpuf

 

[NJDevs26]

TG finally did put up his blog-post...nothing particuarly juicy about it.

 

[tr83]

I bet Pete posts on this board Which account are ya Pete?

Giolove11

 

[Bleedred]

Did Bernier actually lead to the tieing or winning goal? I didn't see it so it's a real question.

If not why are we talking about the 4th line? Seems like we are looking for scape goats again and Gio is playing better and Harrold is hurt so we need someone new.

Nope he's just been awful, and there are better options that we could put in there. Bernier hasn't really done **** to be in the lineup nightly, and I've been ragging on him for months now. He scored that OT goal against Buffalo to shut me up cause I was really giving it to him in that game, and now he's just been lost in a shuffle of suck for a couple of months now.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

You could have cleared it? A reporter deserves what he got to say that. Might as well just say why didn't you score another goal? Dumb remark from a guy who can't even play to say that. if they could have cleared it they would have.

And I still think it was Miller. TG would have said when I asked him, not when a reporter asked. He would own it. Miller brings some spite from covering Philly before it seems.

 

[njdevil26]

Did DeBoer really play the "at least we got a point" card? WOW.

 

[Benedict Parisechuk]

You could have cleared it? A reporter deserves what he got to say that. Might as well just say why didn't you score another goal? Dumb remark from a guy who can't even play to say that. if they could have cleared it they would have.

And I still think it was Miller. TG would have said when I asked him, not when a reporter asked. He would own it. Miller brings some spite from covering Philly before it seems.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was TG mainly because he's been pretty snarky this season so I could see him just getting fed up and go into Brooks mode. Hes made a lot of cracks and criticism's about the organization this year so I wouldn't be surprised if he just said *** it, and stirred the pot. But yea, Miller does seems like a bit of a pot stirrer himself. Whoever it was, might be getting neutered by Lou after tonight.

 

[Sir Fenwick Corsi]

You could have cleared it? A reporter deserves what he got to say that. Might as well just say why didn't you score another goal? Dumb remark from a guy who can't even play to say that. if they could have cleared it they would have.

And I still think it was Miller. TG would have said when I asked him, not when a reporter asked. He would own it. Miller brings some spite from covering Philly before it seems.

It really sounded like TG. Miller has already put out his story about it, so it doesn't look like it's him, but who knows? No one has owned up to it though, which is even more ****ing sad.

http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2014/02/devils_coach_pete_deboer_gets_angry_during_post-game_talk_ends_it_quickly.html

I agree though. Regardless of who asked it, it was just a real stupid question to ask, especially given the circumstances. It's pretty easy to be pissed and call out the team for another blown lead / game, but they did have some rotten luck at the end of tonight's game.

Pete is enemy #1 around here, when Marty isn't filling that role at least, but I'm siding with him on this one. He stood up for his players after the entire team was called out by a beat writer of all people. Report on the team's play, as you're paid to do and shut your pie hole, jackass. Questions are fine, but not when they're dumb and pointless. I mean really, what kind of reaction was he expecting?