Lou already has opened his eyes. At least when it comes to the draft. We've been drafting big, mobile, puckmovers recently. Urbom, Gelinas, Merrill, etc. Larsson would certainly continue that trend.
Lou already has opened his eyes. At least when it comes to the draft. We've been drafting big, mobile, puckmovers recently. Urbom, Gelinas, Merrill, etc. Larsson would certainly continue that trend.
Corrente was supposed to be that guy too, no? The d help seems so far away.
Not too late yet. The Flyers had a much worse December last year and look where they wound up.
I agree something needs to be done. I don't want them firing MacLean though. He was planned as the coach of the future and you don't give up on that after a month. If I had my way itd be Langenbrunner out the door, but I've wanted that since May, and I don't think its happening.
At the risk of quoting everyone who's already spoken, I just wish they had Volchenkov and Rolston back to at least sort of look like the team that was planned.
Like I said, a trade might not immediately help the team but it would start a culture change depending on who you trade. The locker room needs to be stocked with hungry players, not guys in the twilight of their careers with NTC's.
These slow fatcats are the ones who the young guys follow.
I'd rather have the rookies looking up to the Parise's and Zajac's of the room.
lou has to do something its getting to close to not being able to recover from this
What can he do? There's no money, no one will bring back anything substantial.
This team won't get better until this team embraces the fact that PMD are essential to offensive and defensive success in this league. Volchenkov coming back will help, but he does not address the key problem
And with so much money tied up in forwards, I'm not exactly sure if/when it'll ever get fixed.
we'd have to go 12-9-2 to get there. when we haven't even hit bottom yet
exactly this team is finished people stop saying maybe this or that the season is all but over as far as playoffs we have to shed salary develop some of these defenseman and young players and get a stud draft
yep, a blowup isn't designed to help this season, it's designed to help future seasons. you get flotsam out of the lineup and bring developmentals (yours and others acquired in trades) to take their place. thus further preparing them to play in the big league. like right now, if this is what we're going to be, guys like Urbom and Tedenby should be in the NHL.
yep, a blowup isn't designed to help this season, it's designed to help future seasons. you get flotsam out of the lineup and bring developmentals (yours and others acquired in trades) to take their place. thus further preparing them to play in the big league. like right now, if this is what we're going to be, guys like Urbom and Tedenby should be in the NHL.
absolutely, bring em up let em play, take arnott and retire him he is just delaying the development of others
What can he do? There's no money, no one will bring back anything substantial.
This team won't get better until this team embraces the fact that PMD are essential to offensive and defensive success in this league. Volchenkov coming back will help, but he does not address the key problem
And with so much money tied up in forwards, I'm not exactly sure if/when it'll ever get fixed.
he has to move players to improve our defense. if it means losing a vet forward or 2 to get a defenseman then so be it but something has to be done to shake this whole thing up
i mean even with volchenkov our defense looks terrible
yep, a blowup isn't designed to help this season, it's designed to help future seasons. you get flotsam out of the lineup and bring developmentals (yours and others acquired in trades) to take their place. thus further preparing them to play in the big league. like right now, if this is what we're going to be, guys like Urbom and Tedenby should be in the NHL.
I want Berube, Perkovich and Tedenby to play.
YAY rookie cards! There are going to be more rookie cards than not rookie cards this season
All the scoring talent on this team...And they CAN'T score..
Ther is no one on the blue line to get the puck to the forwards who constantly have to go below the goal line to start plays themselves. Under Robinson and Lemaire this was never the case. The Devils played defense to create offense. These guy on defense are not communicating or they are playing under a system not fitting the type of players on the team.
Either way, something has to give before this gets out of hand. The Devils have played 13 games and lost 10. That's 1984 garbage when the team was basically a ragtag bunch of aged veterans nobody wanted with a few real good young players sprinkled in.
