I’m not sure we even got real reports on the Nico, Zacha or last Vat injuries tbh, or Palm’s latest injury. Maybe we did and I’m just not paying attention.
I feel bad for Travis. He's such a solid player and he continues to have to grind it out on these ****ty teams.
The first 4 years of his career the Devils made the playoffs every season. Then they missed one year. Then they went to the Stanley Cup Finals. He's made about $50 million in his career. I don't feel that bad for him. But yes, such a solid player. One of the must under appreciated players in Devils/NHL history. The fact that he's never been a finalist for the Selke is insane.
Severson had one of his worst games of the year. Easily. 4 people saw it though, so everyone else will continue to tell me he's good.
A relatively healthy team and better goaltending puts us close to where we were last year. This isn't as big of a step back as many would like to think.
Two important things:
1) That statistic is ridiculous hockus-pockus & really cant be taken seriously
2) Anyone watching this team even before Hall, Vats, Nico, (insert name here) went down knows it was a total train wreck.
To claim this team would have about 9 more full-blown 2 point wins without the injury bug is optimistic at best. In fact, oddly, I'd argue that after Hall and a few others went down, this team started playing more structurally sound. So while, yes, there's no team that could survive the Devils injuries this season, to claim they'd be fighting for that last playoff spot if not for injuries is completely unrealistic.
Due to Keith Kinkaid being the 31st best starting goalie in the league (that bum still ain’t gotten a god damn game in Columbus and he’s been there 14 games) and Schneider being completely unserviceable pre-February and completely unplayable.2) Anyone watching this team even before Hall, Vats, Nico, (insert name here) went down knows it was a total train wreck
I think they did say he had a concussion.did dani say that zacha had a concussion last night? is that one per season for him now?
still looked like our best player last nght, finally growing into the league
That’s #3 for him if that’s the case right?I think they did say he had a concussion.
That’s #3 for him if that’s the case right?
I agree. Our play was poor before the injury bug. It would be a mistake not to draw a number of conclusions from this season, and not to try to fix a number of problems, based on the idea that “if only there hadn’t been these insane injuries everything would have been okay.”
Hopefully Shero and his staff and Hynes will be clear sighted enough to assess what the problems are with complete honesty. Only then can you begin to fix them.
We need more then just this same roster and system healthy.
Lol, think about what some people have to do to just get by. I will never feel bad for an NHL player on a bad team. But yeah, Travis is underappreciated. When he's hurt the team suffers without him, mostly because their faceoff % goes to ****.
That’s #3 for him if that’s the case right?