GDT: Forgetting the First Half of This Season: Devils @ Senators, 7 PM, MSG+

[Saugus]

Glad I missed this one. I hate games where we score first and then manage to lose.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Pop gun offense combined with minor league goaltending generally doesn't end well.

 

[devilsblood]

i hated shara for most of year... but he is skating much better... at this point im not giving up on anyone unknown yet.... i feel zacha is a known product at this point.. which is a NHL player that has his moments but no issue in trading him at this point if he can bring back a legit third line north south winger like bastian mold ... someone physical etc ..

I'm not giving up either, but to go along with this current line of thought. We do have a lot of young fwds. Could we trade 2-3-4 pieces in order to bring back a single more significant piece? That has to be on the table.

 

[Dylan9z9]

Wood and Sharangovich. Add Holtz as well and you’re already at 9 forwards next season. McLeod will stick as the fourth line center, so you’re at 10.

They would hypothetically have room to add a top 9 winger and a fourth line winger, and that’s assuming they would let go of all of Zacha, Tatar, Johnsson, Kuokkanen and Boqvist.

Good idea

 

[devilsblood]

Sharangovich 100% stays. He isn’t going anywhere.

I like Shara too, but no way is he on the untouchable list.

 

[ChicksDigTheTrap]

I thought Nico and Bratt had a really good game together. They created a good number of chances.

Maybe I am being overcritical of them for being on for 2 goals against.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Devs3cups]

Ding ding ding!

 

[MauDevils]

Sharangovich hasn't looked great even alongside our two best players and he's completely invisible without them.

1 goal in his last 10 playing with Jack and Jesper?

The question was who "deserves" to be here. And he does not.

 

[Devs3cups]

We've allowed 2 goals or less in 9 games out of 46... That seems EXTREMELY low.

 

[Emperoreddy]

We have more team control time of Yegor as opposed to Zacha, which is why he is more likely to still be here as opposed to Zacha if you try to toss one of them

 

[jkrdevil]

Wood and Sharangovich. Add Holtz as well and you’re already at 9 forwards next season. McLeod will stick as the fourth line center, so you’re at 10.

They would hypothetically have room to add a top 9 winger and a fourth line winger, and that’s assuming they would let go of all of Zacha, Tatar, Johnsson, Kuokkanen and Boqvist.

Wood will be missing the entire season this year. He can’t be guaranteed a spot next year. You don’t know what you are going to have. He has to earn a spot.

Mcleod needs to be shown the door as well. Fortunately he makes just about the threshold where you can waive him and send him down and he leave with no cap hit (or minimal). I think Tatar and Johnsson are here next year. Zacha, Kuokk, Boqvist should be out. Sharangovich told he needs to earn a spot in camp.

 

[GameSeven]

Glad I missed this one. I hate games where we score first and then manage to lose.

10 times this season, most in the league...yay?

 

[EnglishDevil]

Weren't we like 7-3-2 at some point this season?

So we're something like 8-23-3 in our last 34? Honestly sounds about right.

 

[My3Sons]

I blame Lou

that’s so old. All the cool kids are blaming the captain.

 

[Bleedred]

Weren't we like 7-3-2 at some point this season?

So we're something like 8-23-3 in our last 34? Honestly sounds about right.

That was said during the broadcast. We have 8 wins in 34 games.

 

[EnglishDevil]

That was said during the broadcast. We have 8 wins in 34 games.

I was spared from watching tonight

But it hit me earlier when I checked the standings that we actually started out pretty well so our level of suck over the last 20-30 games must have been truly something.

 

[Bleedred]

I blame Lou

I know this was sarcasm, but I still back Lou being ousted. It needed to happen.

What I’m confused on is if Shero should have been ousted or not, or if Tom Fitzgerald is simply continuing what Shero started.

I’m not sure if I agree with the decision to fire Shero or not at this point. But I feel confident in saying if things went the same way with two more playoff misses if we hadn’t fired him in 2022, he’d be axed at the end of this year. Because that would be one playoff berth in 7 years and all the guys he acquired in his first few years would have all been gone at least year ago. And that is true, all the guys he did acquire in the early years were gone last year with the departure of Palmieri and and his last offseason move in Subban is out in a few weeks.

 

[JrFischer54]

Is Shane wright a legit talent?

 

[JrFischer54]

I like Shara too, but no way is he on the untouchable list.

He isn’t going anywhere not because he’s untouchable but because he stinks

 

[JrFischer54]

We have more team control time of Yegor as opposed to Zacha, which is why he is more likely to still be here as opposed to Zacha if you try to toss one of them

we are garbage with them so just get rid of them. Plenty of other cheap options out there that can produce just as little as they do.

 

[Devs3cups]

Is Shane wright a legit talent?

Yes but we're not getting him, I'd set my eyes on Nemec, Jiricek and Slafkovsky if I were you, pretty high odds we get one of the 3 imo.

 

[My3Sons]

I know this was sarcasm, but I still back Lou being ousted. It needed to happen.

What I’m confused on is if Shero should have been ousted or not, or if Tom Fitzgerald is simply continuing what Shero started.

I’m not sure if I agree with the decision to fire Shero or not at this point. But I feel confident in saying if things went the same way with two more playoff misses if we hadn’t fired him in 2022, he’d be axed at the end of this year. Because that would be one playoff berth in 7 years and all the guys he acquired in his first few years would have all been gone at least year ago. And that is true, all the guys he did acquire in the early years were gone last year with the departure of Palmieri and and his last offseason move in Subban is out in a few weeks.

I know the team needed to rebuild a talent pool but Shero wanted to have his cake and eat it too. In retrospect his idea of team building seems one dimensional. No GM is perfect but he was too stubborn where he shouldn’t have been.

 

[Tundra]

I think the book is out on Sharo. For at least his shooting tendencies.

 

[JrFischer54]

Yes but we're not getting him, I'd set my eyes on Nemec, Jiricek and Slafkovsky if I were you, pretty high odds we get one of the 3 imo.

well I can honestly say I see us finishing 3rd and I mean zona is only 9 behind us.