This is whole group is pretty much perfect, 10/10 photo capture of their attending lower bowl fanbase in mourning.
No great emotional gestures, but several of the hands in the air definitely deliver, and the devastated dead-eyed stares of ones in middle really pull it together.
I enjoyed these two still reacting to Boqvist being checked, plus Boqvist’s face is a winner. Fight for it Bo!
He wasn’t exceptionally bad though, unless you fixate on that shift, the penalty and no goals.
He got a lot of pucks on net while playing on a line that had a tremendous defensive performance, that‘s not how I define exceptionally bad.
He’s a scoring winger, we need pucks to go in the net but the trend is excellent here. I’m confident that he can help us win just by getting those shots to go in.
Hoping Mercer will is a lot more wishful thinking. It can obviously happen, Siegenthaler scored, but he’s done very little to make it happen so far.
He got a lot of pucks on net while playing on a line that had a tremendous defensive performance, that‘s not how I define exceptionally bad.
He’s a scoring winger, we need pucks to go in the net but the trend is excellent here. I’m confident that he can help us win just by getting those shots to go in.
Hoping Mercer will is a lot more wishful thinking. It can obviously happen, Siegenthaler scored, but he’s done very little to make it happen so far.
The results matter more in the playoffs. He’s got no pts, a 1-1 goal differential, and 4 minors against a PP that was essentially 1-4 in the regular season so knock on another goal against in theory. Exceptionally bad is pushing it but he’s been bad.
Also - regarding Akira's rebounds. I think he definitely 'gives them up'. I also think a lot of them are controlled rebounds. He directs a lot of them.
I think he tried to direct the one Trocek scored.... so.. can't win them all.
There has been a real effort to limit faceoffs in the Devils zone. That includes Akira redirecting pucks to areas where there are no Rangers and the Devils flipping the puck higher to limit icing.
I believe it's more of a game plan than Akira suddenly deciding to give up rebounds. He has been redirecting shots at a higher rate rather than smothering them, at least with the eye test. Most of them are going to low danger places without a Ranger standing there.
Really sucks that the game is not on tonight, I didn't see anything happening at the Rock tonight. I wonder if the league did this for NY since the Knicks are playing
The results matter more in the playoffs. He’s got no pts, a 1-1 goal differential, and 4 minors against a PP that was essentially 1-4 in the regular season so knock on another goal against in theory. Exceptionally bad is pushing it but he’s been bad.
I said the delay of game penalty was bad, and not scoring is also bad, but people aren’t describing it like that.
If his play gets described as “not creating any offense at all” and straight up terrible, which clearly includes defense, or not acknowledging that it matters.
People are frustrated and want scoring, and I accept that, I’m not asking people to be thrilled with no goals but I’m still going to disagree with observations I think are wrong.
And he has too many penalties, but he’s playing a physical pest role that’s very likely to get him a penalty.
He’s also drawn 4 penalties. And drew them a pretty key times too.
Yes, in game 2, Kreider made the game 3-1 at the end of the 2nd on PP on Meier’s penalty, but he also gave us a critical chance to tie the game up on PP before that, unfortunately our PP was a complete clown show.
You can’t exactly argue that the penalties he draws aren’t important though when Jack scored on the PP he drew in game 3.
Meier
1st Period
Our penalties
1st Period
Meier
2nd Period
Our Penalties
3rd
The mess at the end 1) didn’t matter 2) didn’t give the Rangers a PP
Really sucks that the game is not on tonight, I didn't see anything happening at the Rock tonight. I wonder if the league did this for NY since the Knicks are playing
Really sucks that the game is not on tonight, I didn't see anything happening at the Rock tonight. I wonder if the league did this for NY since the Knicks are playing
There has been a real effort to limit faceoffs in the Devils zone. That includes Akira redirecting pucks to areas where there are no Rangers and the Devils flipping the puck higher to limit icing.
I believe it's more of a game plan than Akira suddenly deciding to give up rebounds. He has been redirecting shots at a higher rate rather than smothering them, at least with the eye test. Most of them are going to low danger places without a Ranger standing there.
Noticed this too, he kicks them out very far out of high danger areas. I'd imagine that's by design but also not a recipe for success long term. I put the Trocheck goal on Graves though, completely came off his man for an easy rebound goal. He is miles above Vitek as a puck handler, have noticed him mainly singlehandedly stopping the rim around the boards forecheck.
Noticed this too, he kicks them out very far out of high danger areas. I'd imagine that's by design but also not a recipe for success long term. I put the Trocheck goal on Graves though, completely came off his man for an easy rebound goal. He is miles above Vitek as a puck handler, have noticed him mainly singlehandedly stopping the rim around the boards forecheck.
If anything, his advanced stats are painting a rosier picture than what my eyes are telling me. I like the physical play, but I can’t recall too many actual scoring chances he’s created. And I hate some of his decisions with the puck.
Really sucks that the game is not on tonight, I didn't see anything happening at the Rock tonight. I wonder if the league did this for NY since the Knicks are playing
They did it to stretch the game 6’s into Friday and Saturday Night and Game 7’s on a Sunday and Monday. This is because they have a Saturday Night slot on ABC, and game 7’s that day runs the risk of leaving it open. They also have limited slots on Thursday because of the NFL Draft on ESPN.
Every series has a two break at this point, except Colorado-Seattle. That series is going every other night because the other pacific series (La-EDM) has to go on a three day break because the LA arena is schedule up with the Lakers, Clippers and Kings all making the playoffs.
One period? Thats' a ridiculously small sample size. How can you say anything about someone after just one period? In contrast, Schmid is the Devils' career record holder in playoff winning percentage, save percentage, and goals against average for any goalie with at least two wins. You have to build up a resume like that for it to be taken seriously.
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