GDT: Your New Jersey Devils (0-0-1) @ Buffalo Sabres (1-0), 7 PM, MSG+

[Better Call Sal]

Needless to say, I wasn't expecting to have to do this but here we are.

So, let's take a step back on last night and

I seem to recall going 4-0 last year, and that certainly didn't guarantee us a damn thing for last year's success.

So before we all go CRAZY

Let's relax and see how our boys respond tonight

Your New Jersey Devils (Unconfirmed)

#9 Taylor Hall (A) - #13 Nico Hischier - #21 Kyle Palmieri
#97 Nikita Gusev - #86 Jack Hughes - #63 Jesper Bratt
#20 Blake Coleman - #19 Travis Zajac (A) - #17 Wayne Simmonds
#44 Miles Wood - #37 Pavel Zacha - #15 John Hayden

#6 Andy Greene (C) - #76 P.K. Subban
#8 Will Butcher - #45 Sami Vatanen
#25 Mirco Mueller - #28 Damon Severson

#29 Mackenzie Blackwood
#35 Cory Schneider (please god)

*Let's just remember this as the end of the game*

Buffalo Sabres

#68 Victor Olofsson - #9 Jack Eichel - #23 Sam Reinhart
#53 Jeff Skinner - #90 Marcus Johansson - #17 Vladimir Sobotka
#13 Jimmy Vesey - #37 Casey Mittelstadt - #43 Conor Sheary
#28 Zemgus Girgensons - #22 Johan Larsson - #21 Kyle Okposo

#26 Rasmus Dahlin - #33 Colin Miller
#19 Jake McCabe - #55 Rasmus Ristolainen
#6 Marco Scandella - #10 Henri Jokiharju

#40 Carter Hutton
#35 Linus Ullmark

Take 3 out of 4 this opening weekend, and all will be forgotten!

LET'S GO DEVILS!

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[R8Devs]

Nico can get his #100 career point where he got his first point.

 

[Nico Hischier]

I have a feeling Jack and Hall will have much better games tonight. Hopefully Severson does too

 

[glenwo2]

@Bleedred

Bryz is right.

Take a deep breath everyone and act like yesterday was just a warm-up and didn't count and today is the real first game.

Now let's go Devils and BURY this team!!

(And I mean bury the SABRES, not our own team, please. I'm looking at you, #9)

 

[Ripshot 43]

Needless to say, I wasn't expecting to have to do this but here we are.

So, let's take a step back on last night and

I seem to recall going 4-0 last year, and that certainly didn't guarantee us a damn thing for last year's success.

So before we all go CRAZY

Let's relax and see how our boys respond tonight

Your New Jersey Devils (Unconfirmed)

#9 Taylor Hall (A) - #13 Nico Hischier - #21 Kyle Palmieri
#97 Nikita Gusev - #86 Jack Hughes - #63 Jesper Bratt
#20 Blake Coleman - #19 Travis Zajac (A) - #17 Wayne Simmonds
#44 Miles Wood - #37 Pavel Zacha - #15 John Hayden

#6 Andy Greene (C) - #76 P.K. Subban
#8 Will Butcher - #45 Sami Vatanen
#25 Mirco Mueller - #28 Damon Severson

#29 Mackenzie Blackwood
#35 Cory Schneider (please god)

*Let's just remember this as the end of the game*

Buffalo Sabres

#68 Victor Olofsson - #9 Jack Eichel - #23 Sam Reinhart
#53 Jeff Skinner - #90 Marcus Johansson - #17 Vladimir Sobotka
#13 Jimmy Vesey - #37 Casey Mittelstadt - #43 Conor Sheary
#28 Zemgus Girgensons - #22 Johan Larsson - #21 Kyle Okposo

#26 Rasmus Dahlin - #33 Colin Miller
#19 Jake McCabe - #55 Rasmus Ristolainen
#6 Marco Scandella - #10 Henri Jokiharju

#40 Carter Hutton
#35 Linus Ullmark

Take 3 out of 4 this opening weekend, and all will be forgotten!

LET'S GO DEVILS!

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I feel like that Coleman gif was taken from Blake’s Wedding night.

 

[sabremike]

I'll be in section 309 row 11 seat 1 partying with Sabretooth!!!

 

[Nico Hischier]

 

[Ripshot 43]

Anyone have a gif or clip of that Subban hit?

 

[TheUnseenHand]

I hope Blackwood settles down. He looked very nervous and twitchy when he came in for Cory.

I'm pretty excited for this game, but two things really concern me:

Blackwood
Hynes

I'm gonna rage if the lines are all shuffled and Hayden and Rooney are in. That said, I'm about 80% sure Hayden will still be in AND will be bumped up the lineup.

 

[The 29th Pick]

oh no another game already...my liver can't take this abuse every day!
please win tonight

 

[MauDevils]

I'm getting word that John Hynes is a healthy scratch.

 

[Ripshot 43]

I'm getting word that John Hynes is a healthy scratch.

There is nothing healthy about John Hynes.

 

[Better Call Sal]

If it were me:

Hall-Hischier-Palmieri
Gusev-Hughes-Coleman
Boqvist-Zajac-Simmonds
Wood-Zacha-Bratt

I thought that Wood-Zacha-Bratt looked really good together towards the end. Having 4 full lines we can roll SHOULD be the most important thing but I can't make the assumption Hynes is thinking that way too.

Coleman deserves a shot to play with Gusev-Hughes. He was fantastic last night and our best player by a mile.

Put in Boqvist with Zajac and Simmonds and put him in a position to succeed.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

If it were me:

Hall-Hischier-Palmieri
Gusev-Hughes-Coleman
Boqvist-Zajac-Simmonds
Wood-Zacha-Bratt

I thought that Wood-Zacha-Bratt looked really good together towards the end. Having 4 full lines we can roll SHOULD be the most important thing but I can't make the assumption Hynes is thinking that way too.

Coleman deserves a shot to play with Gusev-Hughes. He was fantastic last night and our best player by a mile.

Put in Boqvist with Zajac and Simmonds and put him in a position to succeed.

I feel a Boqvist-Rooney-Hayden line is going to be implemented for all that stabilizing force. If Boqvist can't succeed on a line like that, where can he succeed?

Sad part is, for me that is tremendous sarcasm, but for Hynes, that's just facts.

 

[tr83]

Can we scratch the coach?

 

[Team Concept]

If Schneider is down for the count who do the Devils promote? Cormier or Senn?

 

[JrFischer54]

i believe the team we saw for the first 40mins is the team that we can expect all season. they thought it was going to be easy up 4-0 i rather them lose this game now and have everyone blowing it out or proportion and using it as a slap in the face.

not sure what is more worrying

cory getting pulled because of cramps? cramps?!?! or blackwood looking horrible? i get hes coming in cold like that but still there are a lot of other times goalies come in worse situations and don't crap the bed like that.

i believe if cory finished the game the devils would've won and covered my 3 game parlay damn!

 

[tr83]

i believe the team we saw for the first 40mins is the team that we can expect all season. they thought it was going to be easy up 4-0 i rather them lose this game now and have everyone blowing it out or proportion and using it as a slap in the face.

not sure what is more worrying

cory getting pulled because of cramps? cramps?!?! or blackwood looking horrible? i get hes coming in cold like that but still there are a lot of other times goalies come in worse situations and don't crap the bed like that.

i believe if cory finished the game the devils would've won and covered my 3 game parlay damn!

I wouldnt be worried if John Hynes wasnt the coach

 

[MartyOwns]

Cormier or Senn?

what a horrifying question

 

[The 29th Pick]

put an A on Coleman's jersey, he gives 100% every game AND produces
(has he worn an A ever?)

 

[Blender]

put an A on Coleman's jersey, he gives 100% every game AND produces
(has he worn an A ever?)

I don't know if he ever wore one last year with all the injuries, but he deserves it.

 

[Cheddabombs]

#freeBoqvist

 

[Better Call Sal]

Wearing my Coleman jersey this morning, repping him hard all weekend.

I'll happily fund all of his pickle merch if he keeps this up. Talk about being an easy guy to root for. He does all the little things you want night in and night out.

And he landed a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader! The all-American dream.

 

[johnny pierogi]

woke up hungover and still angry

 

[None Shall Pass]

MY DAD