Tout ce jeu était complètement dingue et le score final était juste putain de brutal. Mon MVP jusqu’à présent a été Erik Haula. Qu’est-ce que vous avez en tête – dites-le tout – nous comprendrons certainement.
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Devil_Dane
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Wood and Smith have hopefully played their last games as Devils and Ruff has coached his last season for the Devils. Every single player has been a ghost these 2 games, they’re playing a physical game when their game should be played using their speed. These costly oddman rushes are even more noticeable when stakes are higher.
The fact that fans have been saying Wood only takes penalties for the last 3 years (some including myself even said he’ll take a penalty and they’ll get scored on) and Ruff doesn’t see the fucking issue with playing Wood is just shit coaching. Seigs was their best dman in the game 1 shit show and he’s the healthy scratch…
The one guy they brought in for playoff experience has been one of the least noticeable players out there (Palat). V2 looks worse than Blackwood now for some reason, PP can’t get anything going and then the 1 time they did and scored they got away from that plan and decided to go for pretty plays…
Sorry for the rant but I’m absolutely done with this senile coach and players not giving a shit.
https://i.imgur.com/2u3vbKY.png
All their interviews last night, “Yeah we are not playing how we want.” “We had a bad start to the season, look where we got.” “Gotta play smarter.”
How in the world am I supposed to believe this team is gonna get any better? They got absolutely run over the last two games. I know I’m a fan and not a professional hockey coach but our coaching staff has to do something tomorrow night to make a change.
My biggest fear is that Ruff’s success during the regular season is the reason he isn’t fired and I think that’s a real possibility. You can lack experience, size, grit in playoffs but that isn’t an excuse to get your brakes beat out of you twice at home. Coaching has left the team unprepared and the devils fell flat on their face both games. We got fucking embarrassed
I am not a doomer. The fact that we are even playing these games are house money, and I am so proud that this team has gotten this far so fast after the last few years. But there are lessons that we need to learn from this to move forward and take the next step into being a truly elite team.
– Wood needs to be done. Being in house for both games, it was both of his penalties that completely collapsed the house. I’m glad the guys in the room like him, but the game isn’t played in the room, and his play is a legitimate detriment to the team.
– We should have listened to all the Canes/Flames fans who told us what’s up on Douglas Hamilton. For Months now we’ve watched him float on defense and hand wave it away because he scores points. He has not elevated his game at all come play offs. Defensemen play DEFENSE, and if Dougie isn’t scoring, he’s not bringing anything else to the table. He is not the #1 defensemen we’ve been slotting him as.
– I by no means blame Vitek for any of this. The boy up front are just leaving him out to dry every single play. I lost count of the amount of 2 on 1s and 3 on 1s we gave up last night. Even with both games ending 5-1 he’s kept it from being worse. I still say we go with Schmid for game 3. A clear message needs to be sent to the rest of the team, and this is the best way to do it.
– He received a slight reprieve from us at the end of the year, but Playoff Tatar has once again showed up. It’s time to move on from him.
-Bratt has not looked non-existent, he has looked straight up BAD. Despite being the best skater we’ve seen here for a long while, he’s not worth the mega contract he’s looking for.
– We need to resign Timo stat. All the ingredients are there but it’s tough to come to a new team, play 20 games with 20 different line combos and look settled.
– Erik Haula redemption tour is in full swing. I posted earlier in the year when he was getting torn apart defending him and he has repaid the patients. He has been our best player in the playoffs. Repeat. Erik Haula has been our best player in the playoffs.
– Kevin Bahl is him. He has been looking better and better every game. He defends his teammates, he lays big hits that don’t cost us going the other way. Isn’t afraid to shoot. He’s a guy I want to be a devil for a long time.
– Nico and, after midway through game one, Jack have been doing their damnedest to get anything out of this team, but are falling into the “trying to do everything themselves” trap. It’s understandable as they’re not getting a ton of support. They will learn. This is a playoff experience thing.
– Mercer has tried to be too fancy, and just needs to make the simple play. This too, playoff experience.
– Finally Lindy. It’s time. He has done incredible things to get us here and I will forever be in his debt for making Devils hockey relevant again, but he is not it. We need a coach who has structure, who can make the in game strategy changes we have obviously been missing, who will *let these boys cook* rather than throw the lines in the blender every 5 minutes. Peter Laviolette is available now. He is one of 4 coaches to have lead 3 different teams to a cup final. He has the playoff pedigree we need. He has the Gravitas we need. He can grab this horse by the reigns and turn it into a triple crown winner. Pete would be best case scenario, but we need a coach who is a firm leader.
The lumps we’re getting are tough, but we weren’t going to go from a bottom feeder to cup champions over night. This season has still been one of the best seasons I’ve seen as a devils fan since I was a young lad in the 90’s. We have lots of the right pieces and are learning the lessons we need to. If we can make the hard choices and build off this season properly, there is nothing this team can’t achieve.
I just want to say some of your actions in that thread last night was horrendous. I am totally fine with questioning lineups and things like that but everyone literally diving off the bus shows us the basins bandwagon fans are. Where the fuck is your faith in this team? It’s playoffs we know this was going to be hard for the team but yet here we are where a lot of you are starting to say we’re gonna get swept.
Have some faith question and criticize choices that are made by the coaches and know it’s not over till it’s over. We were the third best team this year and we know this team doesn’t go down without a fight OR likes playing with a lead anyways. Consider this our wake up call we go on the road let’s fucking get it done. GO DEVILS
– signed a hurt Devils fan
I’m puzzled. Half this sub is upset because the Devils changed their style of play in Game 2, and half the sub is yelling that we have to adjust our game plan because that’s what good teams do.
I’m nauseous and angry thinking about how we just pissed away our chance to make a meaningful impact after a record season. We are not playoff hockey and that’s just depressing.