Isles did not miss Boychuk or Toews last night. Can't believe they are going to play the Rangers 8 times in a shortened season. Wake me up when we get close the playoffs. Maybe the Rangers are going to try an earn the top pick this year instead of having Lady Luck on their side again.
OT: 2021 NHL Regular Season Thread
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At my age it's all just in fun. BUT a lot of it is true. The media hypes them up every year and the poor saps buy it . The franchise is a joke . And in hockey as all sports winning multiple championships in a few short years is VERY difficult because of free agency. The rags could not get it done before free agency so the ship sailed and now it has sunk. They should be exiled to Elba . But the people there would not take them because of the rags failures in their oh so ( cough , cough ) glorious history.
I was personally at the first and third cups wins, in fact the third one it was also my birthday. Don't think I can ever top that day.But we do have more “trees” in that forest...
Over my older Son’s bed is a picture of the first one taken by a fan (guy I used to work with). The Devils liked it so much it was sold at souvenir stands for a few seasons.
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Well Happy , kinda late , birthday . I was at the first . My friend and I had season tickets upstairs toward one of the corners. We were in the lot celebrating until about 2:30. Some of our other friends stayed until close to 4:00 . Good times , good times ! And yes rag fans, I was in the lot for all 3 celebrations .
Gotta admit to hiding myself from this thread after last night’s horrendous performance by the Blue Shirts.
As much as the season was cut back , there is still a lot of hockey to be played. I just hope to see some fans in seats by the end of the season.
The Devils could suck for 20 more straight years, and I will still point out to my friends who root for the Rangers how awful they have been historically. It’s all in fun with a rivalry. As the saying goes, my two favorite teams are the Devils and whoever plays the Rangers.
To be fair, the Rangers are only about 1 cup short of what a team “should” have won in the expansion era. What is mind boggling is how they could go 30 years without winning in a league that only had 6 teams.
Wow. Anyone see Deangelo get absolutely posterized last night. Guy is now a joke both on and off the ice.
I’m sure you realize he had 15 and 38 last year.
He’s the least of their problems.
Barzal is now the best open ice player in the league, he will embarrass multitudes of defenseman this year
He is a very well liked player in the locker room and right or wrong always defends his teammates.
He’s a Trump supporter who also criticizes him regularly if you follow him, so it’s open season on him
Ok, but I asked sf01 why is he a joke off the ice?
What did he do off the ice that makes him a joke?
On the ice he's a darn good player. I wish the Devils had him.
Google his name and and his Twitter account - don't want to bring politics into this thread.
I don't either, but superfan apparently did?
He's a good player, he would be our best defenseman IMO.
That's funny because most of the players are as well 😂
Like Ronnie said, no reason for politics in a NHL thread.
Devils vs Boston again tomorrow afternoon, 1pm.
I'd like to see more puck possession time in the Boston end.
I'd like to see more puck possession time in the Boston end.
Cool story on a relative who now works for the Carolina Hurricanes.
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From Neuroscience to the NHL
Carolina Hurricanes data scientist Margaret Cunniff took an unexpected route to working in the analytic department in the world's top hockey league
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Deangelo makes it very easy to dislike the Rangers even more. Loved that the Isles abused him last night.
And I would like to see some of the game ! We have You Tube TV . No MSG on it . BALLS.
Quinn hasn’t figured out how the best teams employ a relentless forecheck that gives opposing defenseman no time and space to make a play, yet are always on the right side of the puck and defend.
it’s quite amazing to watch all the contenders do it.
When we try it (The Rangers) all it results in is getting caught deep and giving up endless odd man rushes
As negative as my comments were earlier, I am even more down on Quinn after his moronic comments and lineup changes at practice today.
Well that's no reason to excoriate someone. Half of America voted for the guy not once but twice. People need to smarten up and realize that the way many of us old school folks were raised is that a) two things you never discuss in mixed company are religion and politics, and b) everyone has a right to their own beliefs and it's wrong to hold their beliefs against them. Otherwise we're no better than the communists and thought police.
Actually a coach I used to work with who knew DeAngelo off the ice said when he got drafted that he will either end up in the NHL or prison. This was two years before the 2016 election.
Actually the percentage of registered voters who voted was only about 58% in 2016 and 67% in 2020, so it is very inaccurate to say that "half of America" voted for either party. Trump got about 27% in 2016 and 31% in 2020, and this doesn't even take into consideration Americans who are eligible to vote but aren't registered. The huge portion of Americans who don't find either candidate/party to be worth voting for is disregarded far too often.
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Care to explain why? Other than the second-hand opinion from a coach, everything in that post is just numbers that anyone can easily look up.
I need someone to explain to me how these top teams relentlessly forecheck down low, their D men pinch.
They give you no time and space,
Yet they still clog up the neutral zone, defend and don’t give up odd man rushes.
I swear I haven’t figured it out
They give you no time and space,
Yet they still clog up the neutral zone, defend and don’t give up odd man rushes.
I swear I haven’t figured it out
In most cases, two forwards forecheck and the third forward has to have a lot of discipline with their positioning to make sure that all of the time they are looking for an offensive opportunity they are also ready to bail on the offensive zone and get back to defend.
Same thing with pinching. If the forward on the side of the pinch is free enough to cover for the defenseman pinching he does so, but the forward on the other side of the ice has to recognize when that isn't going to happen and back off to provide defensive support.
It's all about discipline, which comes down to coaching which is why the Rangers suck at it. Quinn seems to focus on the forecheckers having "good intentions" which leads him to value guys like Howden who look like they are putting in a lot of effort on the boards, over players actually being good at positioning where you are already in the right place and don't need to look like you are trying so hard (for example, the Isles have gotten so good at their system they don't look like they are killing themselves to maintain that structure).
They are a Vigneault team. They’ll have a very good regular season for a couple years, take a high seed into the playoffs where they’ll disappoint. Then the lack of development of young talent will catch up with them while they focus on washed up vets and the franchise will ultimately be set back 5 years.
Our strong on the puck forwards are Bread, great forechecker, Kreider for the most part, Strome at times.
Don’t know about Lefreniere yet, Lemioux can forecheck some.
Everyone else including Kakko and Chytil are a waste....yup, that means Buchnevich too.
Those guys couldn’t play for Trots
Howdan exhausts himself with zero results
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