We are going to agree to disagree. With AHL goal tending and those DMen and those F's, where was the strenght of that team?
NEW JERSEY DEVILS 2019-20 ROSTER
Goaltenders: Mackenzie Blackwood,
Cory Schneider
Defensemen: Will Butcher,
Connor Carrick,
Andy Greene,
Mirco Mueller,
Damon Severson,
P.K. Subban,
Sami Vatanen
Forwards: Jesper Boqvist,
Jesper Bratt,
Blake Coleman,
Nikita Gusev,
Taylor Hall,
John Hayden,
Nico Hischier,
Jack Hughes,
Kyle Palmieri,
Kevin Rooney,
Wayne Simmonds,
Miles Wood,
Pavel Zacha,
Travis Zajac
Hard to believe that D did not perfform at a high level - had to be the system
I don't think we even disagree much. That roster had plenty of TERRIBLE players and we knew they would still be terrible that year. Like Rooney (this player always HAS and always WILL SUCK! I don't care if the Rangers like him too, he's a BUM, he always was, he always will be. He's just a little bit better than Rod Pelley though), Hayden, Carrick, Mueller, Andy Greene (he was already SHOT by then), none of those players were valuable at all and I at least knew that going into the season and I think most of us did.
Schneider was absolutely worthless that year, Domingue (who we didn't start the season with) was beyond worthless.
But most of the players that we expected (or at least I expected) to be better that year and they all performed below expectations, whether it's because they were washed up and just not good enough anymore, not good enough period, or they were too young to be contributors, just weren't good enough.
Simmonds was washed up and no count, Hall was the player he had been before injury and at this point in his career he hasn't gotten been any better than he was to start that season off. Remember, he didn't play a single game after Christmas of the season before, se he missed the whole season. He wasn't bad when he came back, but he wound up being a player of very little consequence.
I probably thought Gusev was gonna be a little better, he wasn't bad, but he struggled for much of the first couple of months, if memory serves me correct.
Subban came here and was solid, but didn't produce points the way he had been before he got here. Even the last two years he's been a better point producer than he was that year, but the rest of his game has eroded.
I don't remember Miles Wood being much of a factor at all that year.
Same old, same old from Zacha.
Hughes has a very underwhelming rookie season.
Palmieri and Coleman had pretty good years? Hischier didn't have a bad year at all, but just kind of was the same as the two previous seasons.
I think Bratt and Nico both missed quite a few games. Bratt played 60 and Nico played 58. I think we played 68 games that season. I do distinctly remember a very controversial scratching in the dying weeks of Hynes where both Bratt and Zacha were healthy scratches for a game. We may have even won the game if it was against Detroit, but I may be thinking of some other game?
