Sujet d’après-match : Devils du New Jersey contre les Hurricanes de la Caroline – 25 janvier 2024

40 Comments

1. ffattt 8 mois ago

   Not to be a doomer but that game was so much worse than the results would have you believe. Massive gap in special teams and forecheck pressure. Needed a lot more out of the north of 5M club.

2. brmgp1 8 mois ago

   Well Vanechek is definitely starting Saturday, because Daws allowed two redirected goals in quick succession, and he allowed zero goals against a Canes team that was turtling in their own zone.

   Overall a decent effort considering all factors, but tonight highlights why it’s not even worth getting upset the rest of this season. Understainding that we’re dealing with significant injuries, we’re not remotely close to teams like Carolina for competing for the cup. Are we beating them, BOS, FLA, NYR in a 7 game series? Not a chance with the defense and goaltending, even if/when Jack And Hamilton are back

3. DawgMutt05 8 mois ago

   F Trouba

4. pdubbs87 8 mois ago

   Down vote me all you want it’s still troubling how slow this team is out of the gate when it’s well rested.

5. themakiexperiment 8 mois ago

   I mean can we also acknowledge how good Carolina is on Defence lmfao

   Also it helps they definitely hate us

6. sapphires_and_snark 8 mois ago

   I notice the two following issues, not separate from one another:

   – The passing is atrocious. Too many passes go into skates instead of onto blades. And the ones that do make it to a blade are often not received cleanly.

   – The power play is performing at sub-Recchi levels. It ain’t fucking working. Do something different. Anything except this shit that obviously isn’t working.

7. Flyingbk 8 mois ago

   As frustrating as this season has been—If we win Saturday in Tampa, and the Flyers lose in regulation to Boston, the Devils will be in 3rd place in the Metro (by points percentage) heading to the All-Star break.

   I’m still hoping/believing for a rematch with the Rangers (as the 2nd place team).

8. xGetSweatyx 8 mois ago

   Thought we might see something interesting from Travis Green. Turns out he just wanted to be Lindy’s dog. Hope he’s not next in line for the job.

9. jerseygunz 8 mois ago

   Meh, everyone else lost so not terrible, and seriously for a half Utica team, not bad

10. gothenburgpig 8 mois ago

    Thanks for the useless garbage time goal.

11. szyg1 8 mois ago

    Doesn’t help that there is virtually no chemistry and our best player is hurt. But boy does losing suck. So many instances of 3 players trying to receive the same pass.

12. MaroonMarauder 8 mois ago

    If I hadn’t watched and just saw the final score I would be like « Well, they kept it close at least. »

    Having watched the game, however, WHAT THE FUCK GUYS! God damn what a frustrating game. More shit goaltending and an offense who swung the pendulum back and forth between no finish and no offense at all.

13. Batfleck666 8 mois ago

    NJ Devils Lindy Ruff is hit in the head with the puck, gets amnesia, forgets he’s the coach…goes home for the rest of the season.

14. MountainBaker8217 8 mois ago

    We Scored Two Goals Without Lindy Ruff:

    * But that scoreline does not show how actually awful we played for most of this game.
    * The team looked lifeless, tired, dispassionate, and apathetic really.
    * Our most important guys were making mistakes and coming up empty.
    * Bad games all around for the majority of the team.
    * I just thought the first game facing the Canes after we left the playoffs because of them, we’d see more fire you know. We’d see the boys show up. Especially after that massive win against Vegas.
    * Honestly, the Canes were just better. Like a lot of the times I say that we lose because we beat oursevles, but man the Canes were just…better. Their PK. Their defense. Hate to admit it.
    * Justin Dowling was the only one that showed up. That line had the best chances all game. Put Holtzy anywhere and he’s still part of the goal scoring.
    * Our power play is so fucking bad. Its so bad. What the fuck. We couldn’t enter a zone at all.
    * Small positive: VV saved all the shots he faced. Good for him.
    * Honestly, at this point, this bye week can’t come quick enough not only for us fans but also for this team.
    * Canes have shit goaltending but their defense is so solid and thats how they keep on winning and/or they are outscoring their mistakes every night.
    * Clearly its doable and apparently sustainable.
    * We had nothing this game. Nothing. We barely tested a goalie with a fucking .866 save percentage, like come on.
    * I think thats what is the most frustrating about this season. We have insane, emotional, perspective shifting wins (Boston, Vegas, etc) and then we come out and can’t get any type of consistency game to game. Our longest winning streak this season is three games in a row, we haven’t been able to win four in a row yet.
    * I get a lot of that inconsistency has to do with the fact that we haven’t seen the same line up more than two or three games in a row, but, damn, its tough to swallow a game like this after a game like we had on Monday.

    Would love to finish this week with a win against Tampa. Need something here.

15. IntrepidBandicoot757 8 mois ago

    You guys it’s real quiet over here in Lambertville NJ and I feel like with the Devils lose it makes it even worse

16. rojapa 8 mois ago

    I can’t believe we just lost to the same team that dunked on us in the playoffs last year with a stunted roster. How could this have happened?

17. TheDopestTrip 8 mois ago

    Nothing personal against Lindy, I don’t know the guy or even can say it’s his coaching thats the issue. But this team is defeated, disenfranchised, and has no spark due to all the circumstances they’re dealing with. Easiest way to get a moral boost is a new coach, it’s why it’s done so often. Maybe it’s time. 

18. Down_Rodeo_ 8 mois ago

    Every goalie we have just flat out sucks. Getting skated into the ground by a team that played in Boston last night is unacceptable as is only scoring two goals against Raanta who is horrible. 

19. i_bex 8 mois ago

    I wasn’t watching the game but made [this](https://imgur.com/a/wt2x9wm) after the first goal.

    Allowed first goal 33/46.

20. chaos0xomega 8 mois ago

    Lindy got hot in the head by a puck on January 10th 2019, and on March 1st 2014.

    Dudes literally on a 5 year schedule

21. chrishic99 8 mois ago

    Another game where they came out completely flat, got 0 offense going. Funny how we replace one thing mid game and pucks end up in the other net.

    Good news is vitek looked sharp when he came in, hopefully he can keep that rolling. Balls in your court Fitzy, let’s fix this season and get the ball rolling.

22. Saw_Doctor 8 mois ago

    Lindy sucks, our boys are broken, our goalies suck, I don’t care if we make the playoffs or not because we won’t make it far with what’s in net so it would be an exercise in futility anyway.

    Boooooo

23. Brettski_15 8 mois ago

    Any clip of the high stick challenge? Was at the game and they had no replay of the thing

24. MartysBetter29 8 mois ago

    Just not good enough. Need a big move in the form of coaching change or trade or this season is a bust. This group just hasnt had *it* all season, injured or not.

25. Usedfirehose 8 mois ago

    I’m not a Ruff fan, but the comments/jokes about him after getting actually hurt is really disheartening to see in this sub

26. theketchupthief 8 mois ago

    You can’t overcome half the team dying, bad goaltending, your 2C being a fucking rapist, bad coaching, and a loaded division. It’s “one of those years.” We just have to suck it up and deal with the ridicule from the rest of the league until next season

27. Satanic_Doge 8 mois ago

    I didn’t expect to win this one given that Carolina plays lights out defense, we’re icing half an AHL roster with 2 new guys just today, a single top 4 defenseman, and the dark cloud hanging over the team. What a shit year this has turned into.

    And Lindy isn’t getting fired, at least not until the off-season and with a roster this depleted.

28. Yanks4lyf 8 mois ago

    Why don’t we try to get Luca here hischers brother.

29. game_escape 8 mois ago

    We’re so depleted that I can’t be furious about losing, but the way we lost bothers me. This team, as currently constituted, will never compete with the likes of Carolina. We have no physicality and can be moved off the puck at will. Carolina’s size, speed, and discipline is miles beyond what we can deal with. And, to top it off, our good players were absolutely invisible tonight. Timo Meier? I thought he was actually a scratch tonight. BTW, Toffoli has 20 goals and 33 points in 45 games as a Devil. Meier is at 18/32 in 53 games. Not good enough. I love Nico, but he had no impact. Luke has been regressing of late. It is amazing we are lingering around the playoff line at all.

30. TheNightRain68 8 mois ago

    Considering the events that happened yesterday, I can understand if the guys weren’t all there mentally. But still frustrating to see this not be a game until the 3rd period with us having 2 days rest with the canes traveling from Boston on a B2B. And regardless of what you think of McLeod right now, losing him is definitely gonna be a big blow to the team.

    Fortunately there’s some good news. A lot of other teams in the metro division are finally starting to collapse. Flyers, Isles, Caps and even the Rags are all on big losing streaks right now and none of them have looked good at all lately. If we can take advantage of this we can jump up to 3rd or even 2nd for the division. Let’s just get the win at Tampa on Saturday before the ASB. We should get Nosek back by the end of the break, hopefully Jack too, and with Dougie on LTIR a trade seems inevitable. Get some guys back, get some defense/center/goalie and hopefully we can kick ass in February

31. Cum_on_doorknob 8 mois ago

    I missed the game. Did the tv crew talk about the McLeod situation at all?

32. brmgp1 8 mois ago

    Well it’s early but the playoff race is coming into clear view. BOS/FLA/TBL/TOR will almost certainly make it, with one of them being locked into one of the two WC spots.

    The way I see this playing out, is we’re competing for the 3rd Metro spot or the last WC. Which means we have to outperform all but one the following teams going forward: DET, PHI, NYI, PIT, WSH.

    There’s half the season left. Are we projecting better play, the same or getting even worse? I would hope we have our best hockey in front of us as we get healthier. And you would hope the golatending could regress towards the mean in a positive way. As bad as it’s looked, there is a clear path to the playoffs which isn’t easy. But if we’re being honest, this team should be able to pull it off.

33. suckmytoestits 8 mois ago

    We did not come to play tonight I don’t know if its because the hurricanes are fast but it looked like we weren’t even trying for more than half the game and our goal tending has been the biggest issue daws should have stopped 2 of those 3 goals and our defense needs work for sure but I was just disappointed in our performance tonight

34. Johnborkowski 8 mois ago

    Hope Lindy is okay.

35. nsfwITGUY19 8 mois ago

    Anyone else find it comical that we’re so injury prone our fucking coach gets injured? Can’t make this shit up this season

36. Franzblau 8 mois ago

    Lindy Ruff is day-to-day with an upper body injury.

37. PM180 8 mois ago

    I watched the game. It was not fun. Felt like the Devils barely showed up for the majority of the game. But they did turn it on eventually, and generated a lot of good chances at that point. I’m seeing a common sentiment here that the score isn’t indicative of how one-sided the game was, but I don’t really agree. In the end, it felt like Raanta stood up to all the pressure we created and we couldn’t escape the hole we’d dug.

    And hey, the analytics agree. Moneypuck had the Devils at 70% on the DTWOM, with expected goals 4.23-3.1 in favor of the Devils. Hockeystatcards had expected goals as 3.81-1.74 in the Devils’ favor. Naturalstattrick 3.81-1.96. Our power play was fucking atrocious, but realistically, we did hang with this team, despite not showing up for the first two periods, half the team being injured and all the emotionally-draining shit that happened yesterday.

    Actual goals are ultimately the only stat that matters, but this was not a case of our team being blown out of the water. If our starting goalie plays even semi-competently, we’re very much in the game and possibly winning. I mean, that absolutely sucked, and I’m definitely not arguing otherwise. But I’m also not going to act like this one some humiliating dispatching of our team. We lost 3-2. If you want to not count the late goal, we lost 3-1. Our goaltending was really bad, theirs was pretty good. That proved to be the difference tonight.

38. Fisktor 8 mois ago

    Would you look at that, another game were we dont start when the game start.

    Another game where we almost came back, woho

39. sanbaba 8 mois ago

    That was a tough one. This team is on the verge of facing reality – that even if Jack comes back, there won’t be enough time left in the season to gain lost ground. I would be sadder about that but this game pretty much proved that our guys don’t work hard enough out there for it to make a difference anyway. They work harder than some teams but not hard enough for the playoffs, let alone decimated. I would be madder about that but tbh, not only are we decimated but I think a coupla guys might still have the flu. Unless we win a bunch starting Saturday, let’s put Fitz at ease and sell off pieces.

40. sanbaba 8 mois ago

    Let’s hear it for Dowling – not for the goal but for all the other things he was doing well, brought some Lazar energy tonight.