Luckily they aquired Jake Allen and Kappo Kahkonen. Goaltending issue solved.Horrid year, what can you do? Next year will be an even bigger shock if the Devils are not in a playoff spot. I feel good about a strong bounceback for them next season. Not like 22-23, but big enough to make some noise.
Luckily they aquired Jake Allen and Kappo Kahkonen. Goaltending issue solved.
This was the Canes the first half of the year, they did just fine…Goaltending, if you put a sub 900 goalie on any top team (never mind all 3 of your goalies being sub 900), all of them wouldn't do great
GeeThis was the Canes the first half of the year, they did just fine…
Yes, kinda the point I was making in response to a post that was essentially blaming their lost season entirely on the goaltending. There are really many more factors, the goaltending has been brutal don’t get me wrong, but injuries, coaching, roster flaws in terms of skaters all factor in too. I think the Devils will be just fine in the longer run, many great young pieces already locked in. But they have some work to do on the roster and coaching staff aside from in net to get back to being considered contenders.Gee
I wonder if there is a difference between a team that hasn't been in the playoffs for 7 years and only one players is still around from that run and another team that has been in every playoffs since 2019.
This is the best answer I've seen. devils fans are almost delusional about their young dmen being superstars without any understanding of how awful they are at actually playing defense. Whatever is happening with Severson and Graves now doesn't take away from the reality that they made NJ's defense last year better in many ways. They don't have that and they don't have some of the Fs from last year who made them difficult to play against. This year's devils team was too soft and too poor defensively to be a serious contender.I get the goaltending sucked but it's the same tandem as last season, behind a much shittier defense.
Most devil fans claimed that losing Severson and Graves being replaced by Hughes and Nemec would be an upgrade, it wasn't.
As a nucks fan I've seen bad defense and the devils are sharks level easy to play against. It seems that fans of teams with shitty defense always lay the blame on goaltending because it's harder to fix a dcore than a goalie.
And if we're being brutally honest, the forwards are mostly below average defensively and last year was a fluke.