Better Call Sal
Salnalysis
Time to stop the bleeding!
Your New Jersey Devils (12-13-7) host the Philadelphia Flyers (19-11-4)
vs.
Last Game:
Devils Lineup (Subject to Change):
#9 Taylor Hall - #19 Travis Zajac (A) - #13 Michael Cammalleri (A)
#44 Miles Wood - #14 Adam Henrique (A) - #21 Kyle Palmieri
#8 Beau Bennett - #37 Pavel Zacha - #11 P.A. Parenteau
#51 Sergey Kalinin - #38 Vernon Fiddler - #36 Nick Lappin
#6 Andy Greene (C) - #12 Ben Lovejoy
#7 Jon Merrill - #28 Damon Severson
#2 John Moore - #39 Seth Helgeson
#35 Cory Schneider (9-10-5, 2.93 GAA, .904 SV%)
#1 Keith Kinkaid (3-3-2, 2.70 GAA, .922 SV%)
Scratches:
#16 Jacob Josefson (IR)
#20 Luke Gazdic (healthy)
#22 Kyle Quincey (healthy)
#25 Devante Smith-Pelly (healthy)
Leaders:
Goals: Cammalleri - 9
Assists - Zajac - 15
Points - Zajac - 23
+/- - Quincey - 3
PIM - Moore/Severson - 29
PPG - Hall - 4
SHG - Fiddler/Greene/Henrique - 1
GWG - Hall/Cammalleri - 2
Philadelphia Lineup
#12 Michael Raffl - #28 Claude Giroux (C) - #93 Jakub Voracek
#11 Travis Konecny - #10 Brayden Schenn - #17 Wayne Simmonds (A)
#76 Chris VandeVelde - #78 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - #13 Roman Lyubimov
#58 Taylor Leier - #25 Nick Cousins - #22 Dale Weise
#15 Michael Del Zotto - #3 Radko Gudas
#9 Ivan Provorov - #47 Andrew MacDonald
#23 Brandon Manning - #53 Shayne Gostisbehere
#35 Steve Mason (14-9-4, 2.65 GAA, .910 SV%)
#65 Anthony Stolarz (2-0-0, 1.46 GAA, .950 SV%)
Scratches:
#10 Boyd Gordon (healthy)
#14 Sean Couturier (knee)
#24 Matt Read (abdominal)
#30 Michal Neuvirth (knee)
#32 Mark Streit (A) (shoulder)
#55 Nick Schultz (healthy)
Leaders:
Goals - Simmonds - 16
Assists - Voracek - 24
Points - Voracek - 35
+/- - Raffl - 4
PIM - Simmonds - 44
PPG - Simmonds - 8
SHG - Simmonds/Manning - 1
GWG - Schenn 4
Quotes via Andrew Gross http://www.northjersey.com/blog/fireandice/:
Ray Shero:
“Play harder,” Shero said, forcefully. “Really. Play [bleeping] harder. That’s what I’m talking about. There’s a will they need. There’s a passion and emotion to our game. How many scrums have we been involved with? No one is mad at us. There’s got to be pushback in your game and pride in your game. Someone takes your lunch money, what the hell? It’s not good. That’s something we established last year. It’s a tenacity to your game. Our team last year, we never gave up. That, to me, is what you’re trying to build, and that’s pride.”
“The way we’re playing now is too slow, and we look slow,” Shero said. “We’re not on our toes … Last night is exactly what makes you lose seven in a row and, until you fix it, who knows how many it will be.
“Whether it’s accountability or whether it’s the passion, people talk about leadership or character, and I don’t buy that for a second,” Shero added. “I have one word for anybody that plays for this team or works for this team: You have to have pride in anything you do.”
“They don’t have to score,” Shero said. “They do have to play a certain way. They do have to have a certain commitment all over the ice. I can’t rely on [rookie] Miles Wood, who’s two years out of prep hockey, to make a difference. Thank God he is, I guess, to a certain extent.
“We want our fans to have pride in this team,” Shero added. “They did last year. We were off to a great start, played great at home. Now, over five, six weeks, we’ve given it back. And that’s not good.”
Please, for the love of god, WIN!!!!!!!!!!!
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