GDT: What? Your New Jersey Devils @ Arizona Coyotes, What? 9 PM, MSG+, What?

[Better Call Sal]

Gametime again, what?

What? Hynes Extended?

HF Boards is in a panic, what?

What? You don't think tonight's a winnable game?

Enough of the crying, it's time to go out and get a W

YOUR NEW JERSEY DEVILS PROJECTED LINEUP:

#63 Jesper Bratt - #13 Nico Hischier - #21 Kyle Palmieri (A)
#44 Miles Wood - #19 Travis Zajac (A) - #20 Blake Coleman
#56 Blake Pietila (What?) - #37 Pavel Zacha - #23 Stefan Noesen
#11 Brian Boyle - #43 Brett Seney - #18 Drew Stafford

#45 Sami Vatanen - #28 Damon Severson
#8 Will Butcher - #12 Ben Lovejoy
#6 Andy Greene (C) - #16 Steven Santini

#29 Mackenzie Blackwood (5-3-2, 1.91 GAA, .945 SV%, 2 SO)
#1 Keith Kinkaid (12-10-6, 3.02 GAA, .901 SV%, 3 SO)

SCRATCHES/INJURIES:

#9 Taylor Hall (A) (IR - Lower Body Injury)
#25 Mirco Mueller (Healthy)
#35 Cory Schneider (IR - Abdominal Strain)
#47 John Quenneville (Healthy)
#49 Joey Anderson (IR - Ankle)
#74 Egor Yakovlev (Healthy)
#90 Marcus Johansson (IR - Lower Body Injury)

ARIZONA COYOTES PROJECTED LINEUP:

#14 Richard Panik - #21 Derek Stepan (A) - #9 Clayton Keller
#17 Alex Galchenyuk - #15 Brad Richardson - #13 Vinnie Hinostroza
#67 Lawson Crouse - #25 Nick Cousins - #45 Josh Archibald
#83 Conor Garland - #29 Mario Kempe - #36 Christian Fischer

#23 Oliver Ekman-Larsson (C) - #4 Niklas Hjalmarsson (A)
#6 Jakob Chychrun - #33 Alex Goligoski
#44 Kevin Connauton - #46 Ilya Lyubushkin

#35 Darcy Kuemper (5-11-2, 2.89 GAA, .909 SV%)
#31 Adin Hill (7-4-0, 2.36 GAA, .916 SV%, 1 SO)

SCRATCHES/INJURIES:

#8 Nick Schmaltz (IR - Upper Body Injury)
#12 Laurent Dauphin (Healthy)
#18 Christian Dvorak (IR - Lower Body Injury)
#32 Antti Raanta (IR - Lower Body Injury)
#40 Michael Grabner (Out Indefinitely - Eye Injury)
#55 Jason Demers (IR - Knee Injury)
#82 Jordan Oesterle (Healthy)

DEVILS LEADERS:

Goals: Palmieri - 20
Assists: Hall - 26
Points: Hall - 37
+/-: Palmieri/Hischier - +5
PIM: Wood - 52
PPG: Palmieri - 7
SHG: Coleman/Zacha - 2
GWG: Hall - 3
S: Palmieri - 125
S%: Boyle - 17.7%

COYOTES LEADERS:

Goals: Richardson - 11
Assists: Keller - 21
Points: Keller - 29
+/-: Hjalmarsson/Kempe - +3
PIM: Crouse - 54
PPG: Ekman-Larsson/Galchenyuk/Schmaltz - 4
SHG: Grabner - 4
GWG: Keller - 4
S: Stepan - 104
S%: Schmaltz - 17.2%

DRIVE IN THERE AND GET A W, WHAT!?

LET'S GO DEVILS!!!

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[Devils Dominion]

No Grabner?

 

[Better Call Sal]

No Grabner?

He suffered a pretty gruesome looking eye injury from an errant high stick last month. I won't share it here, you can look it up if you wish to see.

He's doing off ice workouts but is out indefinitely.

 

[None Shall Pass]

A humble request:

I understand that we lock threads after 1000 posts here, but can that rule be relaxed for the live thread GDTs? That functionality is AWESOME for in-game posting.

Or, alternatively, can that functionality be added to new GDTs if the first one gets locked?

 

[Blender]

LGD!! Or whatever.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Aside from a recent win with a Reid Boucher goal, our record in Zona is absolutely putrid

Usually get no puck possession out there and are skated into the ground by Zona

 

[Bleedred]

Aside from a recent win with a Reid Boucher goal, our record in Zona is absolutely putrid

Usually get no puck possession out there and are skated into the ground by Zona

We’ve won 2 of our last 4 trips there, but the last 2 are losses. We won there in 14-15, which was the year before the Reid Boucher goal and Cory shutout.

 

[Davegarri]

Does Mirco Mueller not exist anymore?

 

[Better Call Sal]

Does Mirco Mueller not exist anymore?

Might as well

Thought I was forgetting someone!

 

[Patrik26]

Does Mirco Mueller not exist anymore?

Who?

 

[Devils Dominion]

We’ve won 2 of our last 4 trips there, but the last 2 are losses. We won there in 14-15, which was the year before the Reid Boucher goal and Cory shutout.

Where can I see the box scores?

 

[bigdog16]

Whos in net?

 

[Darkauron]

Aww yeah .Love me some stone cold!

 

[GameSeven]

Whos in net?

What's the backup tender?

 

[Better Call Sal]

Whos in net?

Nothing confirmed yet, it's still early there local time.

If I were a betting man, I'd say Kinkaid.

 

[Nubmer6]

I love how they're splitting Wood and Zacha apart because of ONE bad game after they had success together.

 

[NjDevsRR]

He suffered a pretty gruesome looking eye injury from an errant high stick last month. I won't share it here, you can look it up if you wish to see.

He's doing off ice workouts but is out indefinitely.

Holy shit, just looked it up. That is scary stuff.

 

[Better Call Sal]

I love how they're splitting Wood and Zacha apart because of ONE bad game after they had success together.

I think they're splitting them apart to move Wood up with Zajac and Coleman if they're going to take Quenneville out of the lineup.

It makes sense in theory based on that.

 

[Emperoreddy]

A humble request:

I understand that we lock threads after 1000 posts here, but can that rule be relaxed for the live thread GDTs? That functionality is AWESOME for in-game posting.

Or, alternatively, can that functionality be added to new GDTs if the first one gets locked?

Will inquire about it

 

[Emperoreddy]

I kind of want to send Blackwood back out there. See how he responds to that lose.

 

[Nubmer6]

I think they're splitting them apart to move Wood up with Zajac and Coleman if they're going to take Quenneville out of the lineup.

It makes sense in theory based on that.

I guess the theory makes sense, except Wood and Zacha work so well together. They bring out the best in each other. They should be a permanent pairing.

 

[Better Call Sal]

I guess the theory makes sense, except Wood and Zacha work so well together. They bring out the best in each other. They should be a permanent pairing.

If it were me, I'd reunite Noesen with Coleman and Zajac and put Coleman on the left. I'm still kind of surprised that line hasn't been put back together much this year.

 

[Nubmer6]

If it were me, I'd reunite Noesen with Coleman and Zajac and put Coleman on the left. I'm still kind of surprised that line hasn't been put back together much this year.

I've said this before. I don't think the line you play on should be 100% based on your performance. Some players just have chemistry with other players. The Coleman Zajac Noesen line had chemistry. Wood and Zacha have chemistry. Why are we so willing to split them apart after only one or two bad games?

 

[OmNomNom]

FINALLY, coleman gets 2nd line duty to start the game. interesting with zacha though... if he can help make that 3rd like produce, then he'll solidify his role as a middle six C, IMO. this would prove that he can drive a line

 

[Stuck With Nico]

I'd also like to see Blackwood back out there to see how he responds, but my guess is that Kinkaid gets the nod tonight.