With the lax atmosphere from the top down the Devils have come up with a simple formula. This is as follows-
1. Play only about half a game at home. To buckledown is too taxing.
2. Often play yourself into an early deficit, but don't forget to be charitable to your opponent in the 3rd.
3. We must NOT have any defensive structure or communication.
4. We must routinely watch the puck and leave opposition players wide open. This complicates our porous goaltending!
Now ultimately the buck stops at the top. It is great to have rich owners, but they have to want to WIN. Our GM is systematically downgrading his performance marks by inaction. Hamilton and Nosek have not yet been put on LTIR. What possessed Fitz to give Ruff an extension, other than his personal fanboy heart. If, as shown, you can't build a defense, get Jacques Lamaire and Scott Stevens as consultants with their priority being DEFENSE! What looked good last year is not an albatross, Seiganthaler and Marino have regressed so much, it appears Fitz bought way high. We don't have any defensemen worthy of a first pairing.
Between the bad management, with mixed up priorities, and these young players learning terrible habits, we now could be going from a 🏆 winning era to a era that will be a disappointing era of what might have been.
The first step is accountability!
