Post-Game Talk: We are the ones...who gave up four straight goals
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So did people think we were going to just win every game after the start we had or...?
Beat Edmonton and we're back on track.
Beat Edmonton and we're back on track.
BenedictGomez
Corsi is GROSSLY overrated
Getting 1 point per game actually very slightly hurts their chances of making the playoffs vis-a-vis my above math.
That's how bad things are.
njdevils1982
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Blackwood will probably play against Vancouver.
He should still be the starter, so one good game by Cory (that's assuming he does play good tomorrow against Edmonton, which is probably a 66%-75% chance that he won't) shouldn't put Blackwood on this bench at this point, as Cory is a bottom 2 active goalie in the NHL over the last 3+ seasons now.
I'm just waiting for Cory to have a good game and then having to read ''Cory was great. He had a bad game against Tampa, but he likely was just having a hard time after the cramping on opening night, which obviously set him back after having a really good preseason, as well as a final 16 games last year and WC tournament''. As the rationalization (And excuses for him) with him is some of the worst I've seen for a player ever.
Who are these people you keep referring to that make excuses for Cory? The dude gets ripped all the f***ing time on here.
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It happened a couple times. It happened both in the first half of last year and second half of 17-18 with Kinkaid playing a lot of back to backs because Cory was unplayable. But Cory did play sometimes in the first half of last year, so you're probably thinking of 14-15. When Cory started the first 20+ games of the season because Scott Clemmensen was our backup and Kinkaid was being sent back and forth, but had never had an NHL start at that time.
I think it either broke or almost broke a record for most consecutive games started by a Devils goalie to open a season. And you know it was a lot if one of Marty's consecutive games to start a season streaks was either broken or almost broken.
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There's usually a very small (VERY small) but vocal contingent that's convinced he's coming back eventually, that the injuries just slowed him down and cherrypicking streaks.
I mean, it would be interesting to see what people would say about say Travis Zajac if he had the skater/forward equivalent of poor play/injuries over the same time span. It would be like Zajac scoring only 40-50 points in the last 130 games. And Zajac gets lambasted (not by the same people who defend Schneider), despite usually scoring 40 points a year at his salary and he gets paid even less.
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We need Schneider to play good enough to give us a CHANCE to win. That's not asking him to steal a game for us but he needs to get a win because he hasn't won a game yet this season. Let's see how the tea, responds after tonight , if it's a repeat of the game from tonight which I doubt it will be then no goaltending will save us.
njdevils1982
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we are the ones who make a brighter day so let's start giving…..
…..such a polite and generous hockey team
…..such a polite and generous hockey team
Emperoreddy
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glenwo2
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And for the Tea with milk....
Hughes was straight up dealing tonight.
Sucks that it was in a losing effort.
That goal he scored would've been THE Highlight goal of the road trip.
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Seems like going to bed after the first was the right choice. Unsurprising loss. Season inches closer to being lost.
Emperoreddy
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Right...I somehow mixed up the games and thought we were playing Vancouver tonight.
AfroThunder396
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Hall made some very serious and costly errors. I get that his possession stats were nice but that was not a good effort from him.
Picture perfect example of getting outcoached last night. Was it all on Hynes? absolutley not. there were many bad individual performances, there was some bad puck luck as far as bouncing pucks and Calgary got the momentum swing off their PP. But what you saw was Calgary adjusted to our breakout in the second period and completley destroyed Hynes system and poor fundamentals.
They know that we always break out on one side of the ice, and always try to go up the wall if there is ANY pressure. So they just chipped pucks in if there was no rush play, overloaded the side of the ice the breakout was trying to operate on and simply took the puck away time and time again. and we just ran around, chasing them around the rink in circles until they got behind our soft D, or hit the open guys for high danger looks.
Then no adjustments by the staff. we changed nothing on our side after getting caved in horribly. At times, they were sending 4 (4!) guys to the puck side in our zone. that means at least 2 devils should be WIDE open for outlets. yet no one was in position in the middle to be open so we just lost possesion over and again
And fundamentally, we play so non-physical in our zone it just leads to easy cycles and huge chunks of d zone time. Zero physical body position. Zero Bodying guys off pucks along the walls or in the crease. You cant defend from a chase angle trying to stick check the puck away in this league. you HAVE to take guys out and kill the play.
When teams play loose in the NZ and play run and gun you see we can have success. But one they realize all they have to do is play high-low and take away the wall breakout we are completely lost. Edmonton did exactly that to us last year, lets see if we can make adjustments, or if they play it right.
They know that we always break out on one side of the ice, and always try to go up the wall if there is ANY pressure. So they just chipped pucks in if there was no rush play, overloaded the side of the ice the breakout was trying to operate on and simply took the puck away time and time again. and we just ran around, chasing them around the rink in circles until they got behind our soft D, or hit the open guys for high danger looks.
Then no adjustments by the staff. we changed nothing on our side after getting caved in horribly. At times, they were sending 4 (4!) guys to the puck side in our zone. that means at least 2 devils should be WIDE open for outlets. yet no one was in position in the middle to be open so we just lost possesion over and again
And fundamentally, we play so non-physical in our zone it just leads to easy cycles and huge chunks of d zone time. Zero physical body position. Zero Bodying guys off pucks along the walls or in the crease. You cant defend from a chase angle trying to stick check the puck away in this league. you HAVE to take guys out and kill the play.
When teams play loose in the NZ and play run and gun you see we can have success. But one they realize all they have to do is play high-low and take away the wall breakout we are completely lost. Edmonton did exactly that to us last year, lets see if we can make adjustments, or if they play it right.
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I am still cautiously optimistic that Cory picks up his play. Never back to a 92 or anything, but he’s definitely better than the current 84 which was in large part caused by defensive gaps and gaffes (seriously, if there was a video of all the goals he let in, you couldn’t help but laugh at the terrible defending)
for that matter, we saw as much last night - I counted 3 open one timers 10 feet from goal that the Flames connected on. Believe 2 went wide somehow and 1 went in. One of them (or maybe two) was 5v5. Good teams are not doing that so frequently unless their system is run n gun
When you looked at the season sitting up on its perch did you determine that the only reason was because it had been nailed there?
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