GDT: Preseason Hockey! New Jersey Devils @ New York Islanders, 7:00 PM

[Clam Jensen]

Did you even read my post? I don't care about the outcome, I care how the players perform. You can have a good game and show good things even in loss. In this game almost everyone was terrible and didn't play at their level/potential. Preseason games might not matter for regular season points, but they definitely matter for players trying to make the team or get more ice time. A lot of these AHL guys will be / are suppose to be future devils, so I think people should care whether they look good or not.

There's still one game left in the pre-season, but it's very likely the Devils will already ice a full "a-team" lineup similar to their opening lineup. Which means a lot of people will get waived and sent down based on this (and the past few) games. So instead of putting Johnsson on waivers and sending down Geertsen, Boqvist might get waived (possibly picked up), maybe even Zetterlund (I hope not), Holtz might be sent down, Wood's middle6 slot is now Tatar's and Blackwood is most likely our backup and we still don't know if he c

No I didn’t read your post, I threw a dart at my “auto-generate HFBoards response to doomer post” and voila.

 

[glenwo2]

Jacques Plante reincarnated wouldn't have fared any better behind that team defense tonight.

Might have been even worse had Blackwood not stopped the breakaway and several point blank opportunities.

The carelessness with the puck of the past three years continues; seemingly with no consequences.

Jacques Plante today wouldn't be able to be effective even with a great defense in front of him.

Goaltending had changed a ton since his playing days.

You've been saying this OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER for the last year or more. ''The defense, the defense, the defense, the defense''.

Did you see goal 2? You admitted you weren't even watching the 1st period. If that's not a bad goal, there are no bad goals. When the RAGING HOMER color commentator for the other team goes on a mini rant like I do about the goal being bad, you KNOW it's a BAD GOAL.

Goal 5 was something Reggie Jackson could have caught..... All 76 years of him.

And then the save Okhotyuk made on the wraparound where Blackwood came across about as quick as I'd expect all 50 years and 250 pounds of Marty Brodeur to move.

always the same old excuse to try and bail MacKenzie Own-Goal-Wood out time and time again.

 

[glenwo2]

Are we in for another shite season again?!

Based on tonight's one game sample size...Yes sir.

 

[Nubmer6]

In watching every goal around the league the last 4 years, wraparound goals are much less common than those bad angle short side goals that sneak in.

That's only because Clarkson's not in the league anymore.

 

[ninetyeight]

No I didn’t read your post, I threw a dart at my “auto-generate HFBoards response to doomer post” and voila.

Funny. But c'mon you can't just lump all valid critism into doom n gloom camp. I'm usually pretty optimistic and I don't think my "our prospects aren' t developing fast enough / is MBW an NHL goalie?" rants are that doomish.

If the Devils start losing when the season begins that's when you'll really be throwing darts. I think the big reason this board always goes full doom'n'gloom at some point of the season, is everyone getting overly hyped up and excited in the off season. "It's just preseason, don't worry about it" "These weren't our final lineups" "They are just trying things out" "Glad to get the post shots out of the way" So finally when the real games start and things aren't working out, people panic. So imo some sort of middle ground, fair critism and not getting our hopes up too much is more than ok.

 

[glenwo2]

I just think Boqvist might not be any good or at least not all that good.

He was not looking all that salvageable until sometime after the start of the 2022 calendar year.

He definitely shouldn’t have been here to start 19-20, at least not for as long as he was. That’s another questionable decision of Shero’s at the very end of his tenure.

I’m okay if he’s waived, so long as it’s not to keep Geertsen up. There’s really no one I’d rather see Geertsen over.

Boqvist should be one of the cuts but i think he survives (barely) because of Nico's uncertainty.

I still think he's always been a player who was just...there.

Now, however, he's proven to be a player who is just....hardly there.