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Hi, this is Chico Resch. You are listening to the
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Let's Go Devils podcast on the Primetime Radio Network. Happy
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Devils Saturday. This is Devils After Dark. Coming to you live,
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live from the Primetime Radio Studios inside the bunker. Undisclosed
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location in beautiful New Jersey. going cross-continent to the Michael J.
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Fox Studios in beautiful Beverly Hills, California. It's Scotty of CirrusXM.
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Liquid Metal is streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live,
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X Live, Twitch, and now on Instagram Live on the
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Let's Go Devils Network as the Devils drop a big
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one to the Washington Capitals, 4-2 in D.C. Today, we're
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going to hear your reactions, and I want to hear
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Scotty's reaction because all that goodwill from that 7-1 victory
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over the Rangers to our Devils is now all gone.
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It is all gone, my friend. Yes, hello and welcome, everyone.
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I see you starting to chime in and chirp away
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in the YouTube chat. Sam Wu's here.
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I'm Scotty.
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It's Devils After Dark here talking about oof and oof.
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And ouch, a butt whipping by the Washington Capitals on
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our New Jersey Devils. And yes, as everyone was saying, hey,
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we need to see some consistency. We need to see
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a winning streak happen. We shouldn't get so caught up
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in this 7-1 victory by the Devils over the Rangers.
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And they were right. So let's get to a quick
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game recap and then we'll get to your reactions here.
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For this afternoon tilt down in D.C., game number seven
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on the year. As we all know, George Costanza's name
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for his unborn child.
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Seven.
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Well, the Devils got seven goals last time, but I
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was going to say they only played seven minutes tonight,
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but they did have a strong third period, but too
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little too late. So, will the offense continue?
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No.
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Ovi's final season. We get our first game against the Caps.
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One of the final times we get to see Ovechkin
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against the Devils. Jake the Snake back in net. And
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it started off okay. You know, Jake Allen was making
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some saves. Had a nice stop on a two on O.
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Kovacevic had the puck kicked out from him on a
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shot from the point, and it generated a 2-on-0 break
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for the Caps. Jake the Snake came up good. Devils
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had a power play. Manta had a couple good chances
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on there. I like seeing him down on that third
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line instead. And then it happens another time. We know
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for the first five games, the Devils couldn't score first. Well,
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in this one, in the last game against the Rangers,
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they did. And tonight as well, Arseny Gritsyuk, Gets his
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third of the year from Dawson Mercer and Stephan Nason.
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And this is a goal, if you were on the
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cap side, you would say, ooh, I would think Thompson
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would want that one back. I believe it was, yeah, 10.04
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of the first period, about halfway through. And Gritz just
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kind of fired a long-range shot from the boards, like
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near the top of the face-off circle from the boards.
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And I'm not really sure how it actually snuck through Thompson,
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but it did and into the back of the net.
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So you know what? We'll take it. It's one that
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Thompson probably should have had, like we said, but whatever.
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It happens that way. So the Devils actually score first
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and go up 1-0 at 10.04 of the first period. Again,
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Gritz is third, coming from Mercer, his fourth assist, and
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Stephan Nason. But about six minutes later, Ryan Leonard. Woo!
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Coast to coast.
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I mean, just.
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Forehand, backhand, forehand, backhand, just kind of bobbing his weave
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and figure eight in there a little bit up the ice.
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And I mean, he goes right through the entire Devils team,
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including Luke Hughes, who we know has got an extended
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reach with his size and stick. And also, you know,
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one of the best skaters in the league. And he
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did not look like it on that play as he
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got stick handled right around. And then he couldn't even
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reach out, you know, to poke the puck away. And
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we get a goal there for the Caps to tie
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it up. 1-1 at 1642 of the first period. That's
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a PPG power play goal as well for the Capitals.
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We move into the second and a buck 16 into it.
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So here's the trend that we've seen most often with
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this team so far this season. is the second period,
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them coming out and being completely asleep. So $ 1. 16 into it,
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Ovechkin makes the Sunday sauce pass across the ice. And,
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I mean, it lands right in the stick. And just
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cradled and shot into the back of the net, all
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one fluid motion. You know, you got to give the
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grade 8... a little hat tip for the great pass,
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you know, almost like on the boards he was, but
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just a beautiful little saucer landing right on the stick.
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And either way, I've been to the back and that's
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a first of three goals for the capitals in the
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second period. Then he gets strong after that. That was
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a tick, tack, toe, tack, toe. It seems like the
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capitals were just kind of passing the puck at will
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in the zone around. And the devils were just like, well, huh?
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kind of watching the puck and not being able to
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do anything with it into the back of the net.
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And then Boone Jenner gets, I mean, a little bit
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of a lucky one, but again, in the sense where
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like Kovacevic was the only devil on the ice that
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seemed to be playing the puck. You get, who was it?
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Day or day.
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Go ahead.
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He throws a shot towards net. Okay. and Kovacevic gets
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like a piece of it. I don't know if he
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got it with his skate or with his stick. He
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tips it, and it kind of gets a little bit
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past him, and Boone Jenner is there right behind him,
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completely uncovered. And he just is able to cradle up
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that loose puck and get it into the back of
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the net. So once again, the Devils just kind of
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watching the play happen and falling asleep during their second period.
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not good times over there. Um, a down in DC
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and that second, now the third period, the devils played
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a lot better. I will say at least they got
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some sort of offensive momentum.
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Going, but not a whole hell of a lot.
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The capitals just did not let them into the center
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of the ice. And yeah, they plugged up the lanes
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and they were just keeping the devils out to the perimeter,
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which is something we know. Um, when we see those bigger,
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more physical teams do, uh, they can push the Devils
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out towards the perimeter. And that's what happened. And they
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did get some good opportunities. Timo Meier finally got his
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first goal for real this time. Not like the one
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that got called off a couple games ago because the
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ref decided he wanted to blow the whistle, but he
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didn't for another five seconds afterwards, whatever. But he gets
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a power play goal at the end of the game
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there at 1941, putting it in the back. And then
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Gritsuk gets his second assist, his second point of the game,
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and Jesper Boquist. gets his first assist of the year.
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But too little, too late. I mean, it was pretty
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obvious by the time the second period was finished how
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this game was going to conclude. Actually, like halfway through
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the second period. Yeah, because the Boone-Jenner goal was at
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11-14 of the second period. So this one was all
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kind of like written, said, and done there. About halfway
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point of the game, a very lackluster effort by the Devils.
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seem a little bit half asleep out there. Maybe they
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were just hung over from the big Rangers victory. You
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get the early afternoon game or whatnot, but unfortunately, it
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was kind of like a revert into what we were
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hoping we wouldn't see. And, you know, it's tough. It's
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still early on in the season, but this is what
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we've seen consistently from this team, being inconsistent. We're all hoping...
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that we get the team that showed up for the
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Rangers game. And I know they want to do it
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as well, but for whatever reason, there's just so much
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inconsistencies with this team. And it showed up again today,
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especially in the second period. And yeah, it was too
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little too late in the third Thompson played really well. Jake,
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the snake played well too. Got to say that he
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made some really big saves getting across on a couple.
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There was one big blocker save. I remember as well,
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him getting across, but, I mean, the goals against, he
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really just was not getting a lot of help on
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because the defensive coverage was completely opposite of what we
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saw in the Rangers game. The Rangers game is what
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we're looking for.
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And.
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The Caps game, unfortunately, is what we've been seeing more
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often than not. So hopefully this team can get it
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cleared up like we heard from Jimmy Dowd the other day.
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They just got to play good team defense together, and
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that will start generating more offense. But hopefully the Devils
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can get this figured out and we don't see another,
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you know, lackluster effort like we saw. Listen, these games
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are going to happen, of course. They always happen over
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the course of the season, but they shouldn't be the regular.
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All right.
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Shots on goal for the Devils. 7-7-17 in the third.
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Like we said, they finally came alive in the third period,
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but just too little too late for a total of 31.
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The Caps 8-12-5 for a total of 25. Devils, again,
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you know, Devils. Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, the Devils won
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the face-off battle today, 32-28. I was going to say
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it's kind of an oddity where we're not seeing the
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Devils win in the face-off circle. Power plays, Devils won
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for four. They got that Timo goal at the end.
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The Caps won for two. So not a lot of
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penalties going on here. Hits were actually sort of even
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but still kind of low, you know, from the Devils' perspective.
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16 for the Devs, 19 for the Caps. Only eight
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block shots for the Devils, 22 block shots for the
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Washington Capitals. Again, getting in those lanes and plugging them
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up and not letting them get towards the net. 12
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giveaways for the Devils, so like seeing that number start
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to trend downwards. But still, bad effort by the team today,
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and the first of four games today against Alex Ovechkin
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and the Washington Capitals this year before Ovi retires. You
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get another one on November 12th, then a follow-up on
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November 14th, and then the final one on January 24, 2027.
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So let's hear what you have to say about it.
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Chirp away in the chat. I see Lynn Mars, Robert Isaacson, serve.
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Eric Gobb, what's up, buddy? Who else is in here?
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Meadowlander.
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Roman, Dubs, John Heaton, what's up?
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Yeah, we got a lot.
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Corbin, yeah, we got a lot of people chirping away.
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So let's bring in the man of the hour, too
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sweet to be sour, the tower of power, the man
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who has been sleeping on the couch. And I think
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that's the most important update, Sam. Did Mrs. Wu force
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you to sleep on the couch the other day after your,
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you know, rude assessment of her, you know, Calling out
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for the football calls.
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When I got home and I went to the bedroom door,
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don't apologize. It was locked. It was locked. Yeah.
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It was locked.
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She didn't say anything. But actions speak louder than words, right?
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Actions speak louder than words. Sam Wu was locked out
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of the bedroom. So there you go. Don't F with Mrs.
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Wu. All right?
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That's the main thing. I can't even talk right now.
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Oh, that's.
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The main thing we learned from that situation.
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Yeah, she didn't leave milk and cookies, you know.
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No milk and cookies, no.
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On the table either. In all seriousness, Scotty, the defensive
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coverage in this game was just absolutely terrible. Absolutely terrible.
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They were like almost half a stride behind on every
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single play. The game was decided in the second period.
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I mean....
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I forgot who mentioned this in the YouTube live that,
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you know, Jake the Snake prevented this from being like
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an 8-2 game or a 10-2 game. Oh, yeah. In
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the beginning. So, again, Devils had the lead. They had
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the lead. You're thinking, okay. But the first period was
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a little bit sloppy. But, okay, the Caps, they equalized
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it 1-1 going into intermission and all right, well, it's
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basically a two-period game at this point. And the Devils
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came out flat in the second period. And before you
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know it, they're down 3-1. But also credit Logan Thompson,
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because I think when the Devils were down 2-1, I
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think Jack Hughes had a chance to put one in.
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The Devils, again, the inconsistencies on offense... The analytics look great,
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but they're not finishing. And these things happen and they
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keep on happening often. But again, it came down to
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the defensive coverage in their own zone. And it was just,
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you can't do that against the Washington Capitals. The Washington Capitals,
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you've got to give them a lot of credit for
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the blocked shots.
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Yeah.
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They played well. Yeah, there's stuff in the lane.
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They played well, yeah.
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And I view them as a 1A, 1B with the
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Carolina Hurricanes, top of the Metropolitan Division. They bulked up
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because this is being Alexander Ovechkin's last season. They bulked
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up the Washington Capitals for now and for the future,
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knowing that Ovi is going to retire and they're all in.
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And if they're going to be all in, If you're
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going to play the Washington Capitals, you have to be
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all in at all times. And that second period, that's
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where the game was won. And here we go again,
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the inconsistencies of the New Jersey Devils, the rollercoaster ride.
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We were running a high with, you know, beating the
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Rangers 7-1. That's good. The players, especially the new players,
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know the importance of that rivalry at home. They took
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care of business. Then they go to Washington. Okay, you're 1-1.
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in that first period, and then boom. The third period
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was really garbage time because all Washington had to do
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was just sit back and relax, and a lot of
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the good plays that the Devils were getting shots on
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goal was a little too late at that point, and
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Logan Thompson, to his credit, was stopping a lot of it.
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But the Capitals, they kind of sat back defensively, and
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they took away a lot of the rebounds because they
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had the lead. It would have been a different game
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had it been 1-1 and the Devils put the pressure
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on Logan Thompson in the third period. You probably would
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have gotten different results than just scoring one goal, which
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Timo Meier finally got with 17 seconds left of the game.
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But honestly, there's really not much to build on other than, look,
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you've got three home games at Prudential Center. You got
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to rebound Tuesday by Tuesday and get this thing figured
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out defensively. Like, it's so inconsistent, Scotty. And, you know, again,
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there's not much more to say. It's not goaltending. It's
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not goaltending. And if I were Sunday, I wouldn't get
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Connor Hellebuck until you fixed the defense. You know, you
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can't expect Connor Hellebuck to save you if you were
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to make a trade every single time.
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Yeah, it's not the goaltending. Like you said, and I
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believe it was Robert Isaacson up here. Yeah, Allen kept
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this game from being 8-2. This was not on Jake
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Allen at all. Serve says Luke, letting that guy get
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around him, turn the game around for the worse. Yeah,
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I mean, that was bad. I mean, that was really bad.
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He got burned big time. On the ice, I know
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it was a power play for the Caps, but, I mean,
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he just right up the ice, coast to coast, and
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around everyone. I mean, that wasn't good. Ariel, one step forward,
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two steps back. No surprise. You know, some tough games
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coming up, too. You know, Colorado, Anaheim, who's no just
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a wash anymore. Anaheim is a team you got to
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look out for. They're playing a lot better, obviously. Issues.
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They can't run with the big dogs, says Wimpy. The
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New Jersey Devils are the most bipolar team from period
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to period, game to game, according to Serve. Oh, Lynn Mars,
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look at this.
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Mr.
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Woo locked out like MLB will be.
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Wow.
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Very nicely done. Very nicely done over there.
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Wow.
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Um, maybe we are making the assumption the devils know
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how to play defense and know how to support their goalie.
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Yeah.
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Uh, Robert, the 17 shots in the third was for
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the analytics crowd. Yep. Um, the second goal, Jake needs
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to have that one, the other three really bad defense
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in front. Yeah. I mean, that's, yeah, you can say
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that Leonard goal. I mean, he may, I mean, he
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was made some pretty moves there and he did the
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same thing that he did to Luke that he did
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to Jake, just forehand backhand. Forehand and then, boop, into
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the back of the net. I mean, it was a
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pretty play by him. But still, yeah, I mean, the
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defense needs to play a lot better.
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Scott, I want to read.
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Does Luke? Go ahead.
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Go ahead. No, I just want to read Robert Eisen's comment.
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The analytics crowd has to add a competitive filter to
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their stats. Yeah, it's called beefalytics. We invented beefalytics. that
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kind of analytics here a few years back, and I
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think we need to bring that back. We got to
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bring that back because I think Evan Rodriguez has, has
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that beefalytics, you know, you know, and it was nice
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to see him, you know, towards the end of the game,
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you know, get a breakaway on Logan Thompson, but he
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has a different element and I think it needs to
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be a team effort. on that competitiveness is, and it's,
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it's usually starts with one player and then it gets,
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gets to be contagious. But, you know, again, I, you know, I,
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I think Jack Hughes has it, but again, Jack Hughes
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can't just do it all himself. And again, it's the
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sense of urgency. Sometimes it's just not there that like
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they come out flat. Now, like last season, when we
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dissected Sheldon Keith's coaching methods, is he not in the
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locker room? in between periods and these guys, you know,
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just sit there and talk amongst themselves and then go out.
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I want to know what's going on in that locker
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room because somebody has got to be held accountable of
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being unprepared out in second period unprepared and just getting
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walked on by the Washington capitals.
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Yeah.
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That's a big problem. Yeah.
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And Eric says it right here, Eric Cobb, you know,
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Say what you want about the goaltending. This team continues
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to show no structure. Pressure in the defensive zone. These
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guys have no idea where to go in the defensive zone. And, yeah,
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I mean, that was the case today. I mean, we
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saw something different against the Rangers, and then all of
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a sudden today it was, you know, back to the usual.
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Dub says Jack and Brad better start putting the puck
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in the net. Yeah, we do need them to start
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scoring more. I know Jack is– He's racking up the
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points with the assists and everything like that, but we
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do need to get some of those pucks in the
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back of the net. Very frustrating. Roman, this might be
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the best comment of the day. That was the most
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last year-like game as possible.
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Great comment.
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Yeah. Ariel would love to be a fly on the
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wall in the locker room. Do we need to bring
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in a couple new defensemen? I mean, could be. But
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you are locked into a lot of contracts there from
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old Fitzy. So there's going to have to be, Sonny's
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going to have to get very, very, you know, creative
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with potentially moving people around. Keith needs to go, says
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James Valente. We are way too inconsistent. I mean, that's
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what everyone's been saying. Dubs, eight blocked shots. Help the
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guy out, for God's sakes. Caps blocked over 20. The
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team has not bought in. And, yeah, I mean, we
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can see that from game to game to game when
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we look at the stats afterwards. The opposing teams are
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always blocking 20, sometimes 30-plus shots that the Devils are
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trying to throw at net. And the Devils are, you know,
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maybe in the mid-teens, if that. In blocked shots? So
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the goaltenders are getting peppered with high-quality danger scoring chances,
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which is not really good. Mike Ross, you can't do
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much with our top six since they mostly have no
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movement clauses.
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Yep.
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Thanks again, Fitzy. Wimpy says the fly on the wall
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won't get hit.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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It'll just be bobbing and weaving in and out of
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players and then right out of the locker room.
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Right, right past Jake, Jake Allen and Nico Dawes. Yeah.
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No, actually it'll go right. And just, it just always,
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they're always swarming Nico Dawes and Jake Allen. And you know,
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the rest of the team can't help out. That's, that's
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what's happening with that fly on the wall.
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Yeah.
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Oh man. Oh man. Isn't Bradshaw supposed to be a
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defensive guru? Well, looks like he met his match. Yeah.
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They need to get, I don't know, some grizzled hard-nosed
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defenseman in there to really shake things up. I do,
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like Sam was saying, I do like the play of
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Evan Rodriguez a lot. You can feel his intensity on
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the ice. You can feel his drive and his, his
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desire to, you know, go all in on a lot
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of this stuff. And I think we just, we need
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more of that on this team.
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Agreed. Agreed. And is there anybody in the AHL that
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we can call up? Because I, I don't know, like, Right.
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Now, probably Siliev and Ethan Edwards are probably the closest, too.
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It's too early. I mean, Utica right now, they're undefeated
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right now at 3-0 from last night checked. So I
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don't want to mess with that at this point. But,
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you know, when Sonny took over this team, he inherited
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a lot of these contracts, and he said that he
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was going to honor A lot of these contracts, there's
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no movement clauses. But some of these guys, you know,
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we need better performance out of Brett Pesci. We need
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a better performance out of, actually, the entire defense. We
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need a better performance.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, offensively, they're getting shots on goal, but
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at times they seem like they're playing the perimeter game again.
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You've got to fight for positioning in the slot area
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and get inside. Like, you can't just, you know, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass.
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There's just too many passes. And how did Gritsik score?
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Because he just put the freaking puck on net. You know,
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it's that simple. It's that simple. And you know what?
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Keep on doing it, you know, from the start of
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the game to the end of the game. It's very frustrating.
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It's almost sometimes they're looking for the perfect play, and
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it's just... Just catch the Capitals off guard. Just put
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it on net. Yeah. Don't think. You're right.
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And serve's got it right here. They're just skating and passing,
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skating and passing, skating and passing. Yeah, I mean, they
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got to... I don't know. They got to get more gritty. Ariel,
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Evangelista and Brown close to returning? I hope so. It'll
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be interesting to see who comes out of the lineup
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when that does happen. Because the fourth line has been
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playing a lot better, I feel like. And now that
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Gritz has moved up with Jack and Jesper, I think
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they're going to give that a little bit of time.
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Mercer reuniting with Timo and Nico. You got Manta on
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the third line with Stefan Nason and Evan Rodriguez. I mean,
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you know, Nace probably would be a candidate. Lombardi and
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Boquist have been playing really well. I'm not sure. Connor
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Brown should be in the lineup, though, when he comes back,
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and obviously so should Evangelista. So it'll be interesting to
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see what decisions are made on that front for who
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comes in and out of the lineup. Yeah. Roman, the
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Caps reminded me a lot of Carolina. Bigger, stronger, great four-track.
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It's a perfect recipe to blow us out. Yeah. I mean,
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like Sam, we was just saying, they just kept it
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all out to the perimeter. And when the devils play
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that perimeter game, you know, you're going to, you're going
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to kick out a lot of shots by the defense
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and stuff in the forwards, you know, and then I'm
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going to get towards the net.
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Yep.
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Uh, lid Mars agrees, by the way, E-Rod gets it
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works hard, sets the example, but the D is too
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confused to notice. They are very scrambly. I think someone
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said that before too. They looked like scrambled eggs, uh,
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That might have been select or serve, either or. I'm
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trying to give you credit. I forgot. It was way
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back up in the chat. Yeah, and the Avs coming
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to town and the Ducks like, we don't got any
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freebies out there. Dubs are saying Nason and Mantha out.
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Brown and Evangelista in. That would be his call. We're
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going to find out. Sam, we're going to find out
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on Tuesday.
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Night, right? I believe that.
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Is it Tuesday or is it Monday night?
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It's Tuesday, right? Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. That's what we got.
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All at home.
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Colorado, Anaheim, two tough ones, and then the Kings who
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have been struggling. I don't think the Kings have actually
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won a game either. They're like the Flyers. I think
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the Kings are like 0-4-2 or 0-3-3 or something like that.
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Yeah, and knowing our luck, they'll be due on Saturday.
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Oh, they'll definitely be due. Yeah, they'll be due. They're
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going to put up like an eight-pack of goals or
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something like that, 100%. They'll start a– there's going to.
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Be four rookie laps. Oh, the Devils don't do well
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when– first first timer nhlers are on the ice so
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let's let's call up our entire entire farm system for that.
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Game yeah exactly yeah But yeah, I mean, definitely a
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huge disappointing game today. Hopefully it doesn't ruin your weekend though.
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Get it done early on a Saturday and then we'll
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move on and hopefully get some better results on Tuesday
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or at least up just to, you know what? I
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don't mind when they lose, but just play hard out there.
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I mean, I said it, Sam said it. I know
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you were all feeling it too. Like second period, this
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game was over. This game was over halfway through. 4-1,
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it was just like they're not coming back.
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I'm going to add to that, Scotty, because when you
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say play harder, it's subjective. I'm going to use a
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different word. Be more disruptive and have an impact on
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the game. Because they've got the analytics, but are they
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really being disruptive?
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Yeah.
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There should be an analytics of you being a pest,
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which goes back to our beefalytics, being disruptive out in
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the ice. That's a game changer. You know, hockey is
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a game of emotion, a mindset. And that's what Jim Dowd,
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good friend of the podcast, the other day on Devils
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After Dark, after the Devils beat the Red Wings, when
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we were at Miller's Alehouse, like, it's a lot of
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it's mindset. And we have to have a disruptive mindset
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because when you're, when you have that kind of disruptive mindset,
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then you're the one that's initiating and dictating the play.
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So that's how the devils really need to, you know,
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come out as is being disruptive, uh, especially in front
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of the, uh, in front of the crease. So, you know, Sonny,
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if you're watching, you know, I am for hire as
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a consultant, put me in that lock.
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I'll get that.
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I'll get them going. Then sooner or later, they're going
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to just take a page out of Mrs. Wu and
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just lock the door, you know? Yeah. Yeah. But anyway.
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Sonny, I'll take an assistant GM, too, if you need
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some help. I'll gladly, you know, assist in those areas.
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Yeah.
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Get the Let's Go Devils podcast crew there running things.
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You got a different ship out there, Sonny. So, yeah,
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just DM me. We'll get it set up, right?
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You know what? I'll even make it more simpler for you, Sonny.
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I'll be the fly on the wall. You know, that's
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my job. All right.
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And yes, sir, we did score first, but we didn't
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score again until 15 seconds left in the game. So
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second period woes continue for this team. The defensive struggles
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continue for this team. We're still early on in the season,
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but we're getting up to our first, you know, 10-game
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marker where we like to evaluate things. Three more games
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to go. So let's see how this, or actually two,
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I'm sorry, eight, I guess eight, nine, and ten we'll do. So, yeah,
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I guess three more games to go. Next Sunday on
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the big show, the Let's Go Devils Podcast Network big show,
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we'll do some reevaluation. Of course, we got the This
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Sunday big show as well.
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Morning Woo as well.
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Morning Woo. That's right. Get your cup of Morning Woo.
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But we'll be reevaluating this game and the week that
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was tomorrow night with our good friend Beer Baron as
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well on the Let's Go Devils podcast. Thank you. Thank you, everyone,
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for chirping away in the chat. And hope you have
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yourself a fantastical weekend in the meantime.
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Until next time, let's go Devils.
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Hi, this is Chico Resch. You are listening to the
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Let's Go Devils podcast on the Primetime Radio Network. Happy
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Devils Saturday. This is Devils After Dark. Coming to you live,
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live from the Primetime Radio Studios inside the bunker. Undisclosed
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location in beautiful New Jersey. going cross-continent to the Michael J.
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Fox Studios in beautiful Beverly Hills, California. It's Scotty of CirrusXM.
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Liquid Metal is streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live,
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X Live, Twitch, and now on Instagram Live on the
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Let's Go Devils Network as the Devils drop a big
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one to the Washington Capitals, 4-2 in D.C. Today, we're
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going to hear your reactions, and I want to hear
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Scotty's reaction because all that goodwill from that 7-1 victory
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over the Rangers to our Devils is now all gone.
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It is all gone, my friend. Yes, hello and welcome, everyone.
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I see you starting to chime in and chirp away
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in the YouTube chat. Sam Wu's here.
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I'm Scotty.
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It's Devils After Dark here talking about oof and oof.
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And ouch, a butt whipping by the Washington Capitals on
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our New Jersey Devils. And yes, as everyone was saying, hey,
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we need to see some consistency. We need to see
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a winning streak happen. We shouldn't get so caught up
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in this 7-1 victory by the Devils over the Rangers.
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And they were right. So let's get to a quick
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game recap and then we'll get to your reactions here.
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For this afternoon tilt down in D.C., game number seven
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on the year. As we all know, George Costanza's name
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for his unborn child.
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Seven.
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Well, the Devils got seven goals last time, but I
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was going to say they only played seven minutes tonight,
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but they did have a strong third period, but too
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little too late. So, will the offense continue?
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No.
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Ovi's final season. We get our first game against the Caps.
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One of the final times we get to see Ovechkin
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against the Devils. Jake the Snake back in net. And
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it started off okay. You know, Jake Allen was making
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some saves. Had a nice stop on a two on O.
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Kovacevic had the puck kicked out from him on a
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shot from the point, and it generated a 2-on-0 break
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for the Caps. Jake the Snake came up good. Devils
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had a power play. Manta had a couple good chances
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on there. I like seeing him down on that third
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line instead. And then it happens another time. We know
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for the first five games, the Devils couldn't score first. Well,
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in this one, in the last game against the Rangers,
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they did. And tonight as well, Arseny Gritsyuk, Gets his
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third of the year from Dawson Mercer and Stephan Nason.
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And this is a goal, if you were on the
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cap side, you would say, ooh, I would think Thompson
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would want that one back. I believe it was, yeah, 10.04
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of the first period, about halfway through. And Gritz just
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kind of fired a long-range shot from the boards, like
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near the top of the face-off circle from the boards.
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And I'm not really sure how it actually snuck through Thompson,
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but it did and into the back of the net.
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So you know what? We'll take it. It's one that
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Thompson probably should have had, like we said, but whatever.
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It happens that way. So the Devils actually score first
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and go up 1-0 at 10.04 of the first period. Again,
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Gritz is third, coming from Mercer, his fourth assist, and
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Stephan Nason. But about six minutes later, Ryan Leonard. Woo!
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Coast to coast.
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I mean, just.
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Forehand, backhand, forehand, backhand, just kind of bobbing his weave
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and figure eight in there a little bit up the ice.
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And I mean, he goes right through the entire Devils team,
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including Luke Hughes, who we know has got an extended
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reach with his size and stick. And also, you know,
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one of the best skaters in the league. And he
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did not look like it on that play as he
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got stick handled right around. And then he couldn't even
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reach out, you know, to poke the puck away. And
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we get a goal there for the Caps to tie
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it up. 1-1 at 1642 of the first period. That's
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a PPG power play goal as well for the Capitals.
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We move into the second and a buck 16 into it.
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this team so far this season. is the second period,
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them coming out and being completely asleep. So $ 1. 16 into it,
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Ovechkin makes the Sunday sauce pass across the ice. And,
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I mean, it lands right in the stick. And just
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cradled and shot into the back of the net, all
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one fluid motion. You know, you got to give the
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grade 8... a little hat tip for the great pass,
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you know, almost like on the boards he was, but
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just a beautiful little saucer landing right on the stick.
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a first of three goals for the capitals in the
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second period. Then he gets strong after that. That was
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a tick, tack, toe, tack, toe. It seems like the
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capitals were just kind of passing the puck at will
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in the zone around. And the devils were just like, well, huh?
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kind of watching the puck and not being able to
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do anything with it into the back of the net.
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And then Boone Jenner gets, I mean, a little bit
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of a lucky one, but again, in the sense where
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like Kovacevic was the only devil on the ice that
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seemed to be playing the puck. You get, who was it?
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Day or day.
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Go ahead.
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He throws a shot towards net. Okay. and Kovacevic gets
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like a piece of it. I don't know if he
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got it with his skate or with his stick. He
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tips it, and it kind of gets a little bit
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past him, and Boone Jenner is there right behind him,
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completely uncovered. And he just is able to cradle up
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that loose puck and get it into the back of
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the net. So once again, the Devils just kind of
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watching the play happen and falling asleep during their second period.
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not good times over there. Um, a down in DC
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and that second, now the third period, the devils played
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a lot better. I will say at least they got
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some sort of offensive momentum.
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Going, but not a whole hell of a lot.
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The capitals just did not let them into the center
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of the ice. And yeah, they plugged up the lanes
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and they were just keeping the devils out to the perimeter,
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which is something we know. Um, when we see those bigger,
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more physical teams do, uh, they can push the Devils
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out towards the perimeter. And that's what happened. And they
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did get some good opportunities. Timo Meier finally got his
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first goal for real this time. Not like the one
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that got called off a couple games ago because the
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ref decided he wanted to blow the whistle, but he
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didn't for another five seconds afterwards, whatever. But he gets
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a power play goal at the end of the game
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there at 1941, putting it in the back. And then
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Gritsuk gets his second assist, his second point of the game,
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and Jesper Boquist. gets his first assist of the year.
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But too little, too late. I mean, it was pretty
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obvious by the time the second period was finished how
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this game was going to conclude. Actually, like halfway through
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the second period. Yeah, because the Boone-Jenner goal was at
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11-14 of the second period. So this one was all
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kind of like written, said, and done there. About halfway
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point of the game, a very lackluster effort by the Devils.
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seem a little bit half asleep out there. Maybe they
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were just hung over from the big Rangers victory. You
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get the early afternoon game or whatnot, but unfortunately, it
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was kind of like a revert into what we were
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hoping we wouldn't see. And, you know, it's tough. It's
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still early on in the season, but this is what
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we've seen consistently from this team, being inconsistent. We're all hoping...
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that we get the team that showed up for the
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Rangers game. And I know they want to do it
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as well, but for whatever reason, there's just so much
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inconsistencies with this team. And it showed up again today,
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especially in the second period. And yeah, it was too
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little too late in the third Thompson played really well. Jake,
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the snake played well too. Got to say that he
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made some really big saves getting across on a couple.
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There was one big blocker save. I remember as well,
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him getting across, but, I mean, the goals against, he
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really just was not getting a lot of help on
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because the defensive coverage was completely opposite of what we
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saw in the Rangers game. The Rangers game is what
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we're looking for.
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The Caps game, unfortunately, is what we've been seeing more
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often than not. So hopefully this team can get it
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cleared up like we heard from Jimmy Dowd the other day.
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They just got to play good team defense together, and
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that will start generating more offense. But hopefully the Devils
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can get this figured out and we don't see another,
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you know, lackluster effort like we saw. Listen, these games
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are going to happen, of course. They always happen over
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the course of the season, but they shouldn't be the regular.
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All right.
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Shots on goal for the Devils. 7-7-17 in the third.
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Like we said, they finally came alive in the third period,
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but just too little too late for a total of 31.
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The Caps 8-12-5 for a total of 25. Devils, again,
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you know, Devils. Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, the Devils won
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the face-off battle today, 32-28. I was going to say
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it's kind of an oddity where we're not seeing the
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Devils win in the face-off circle. Power plays, Devils won
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for four. They got that Timo goal at the end.
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The Caps won for two. So not a lot of
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penalties going on here. Hits were actually sort of even
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but still kind of low, you know, from the Devils' perspective.
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16 for the Devs, 19 for the Caps. Only eight
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block shots for the Devils, 22 block shots for the
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Washington Capitals. Again, getting in those lanes and plugging them
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up and not letting them get towards the net. 12
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giveaways for the Devils, so like seeing that number start
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to trend downwards. But still, bad effort by the team today,
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and the first of four games today against Alex Ovechkin
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and the Washington Capitals this year before Ovi retires. You
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get another one on November 12th, then a follow-up on
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November 14th, and then the final one on January 24, 2027.
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So let's hear what you have to say about it.
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Chirp away in the chat. I see Lynn Mars, Robert Isaacson, serve.
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Eric Gobb, what's up, buddy? Who else is in here?
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Meadowlander.
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Roman, Dubs, John Heaton, what's up?
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Yeah, we got a lot.
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Corbin, yeah, we got a lot of people chirping away.
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So let's bring in the man of the hour, too
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sweet to be sour, the tower of power, the man
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who has been sleeping on the couch. And I think
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that's the most important update, Sam. Did Mrs. Wu force
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you to sleep on the couch the other day after your,
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you know, rude assessment of her, you know, Calling out
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for the football calls.
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When I got home and I went to the bedroom door,
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don't apologize. It was locked. It was locked. Yeah.
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It was locked.
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She didn't say anything. But actions speak louder than words, right?
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Actions speak louder than words. Sam Wu was locked out
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of the bedroom. So there you go. Don't F with Mrs.
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Wu. All right?
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That's the main thing. I can't even talk right now.
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Oh, that's.
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The main thing we learned from that situation.
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Yeah, she didn't leave milk and cookies, you know.
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No milk and cookies, no.
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On the table either. In all seriousness, Scotty, the defensive
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coverage in this game was just absolutely terrible. Absolutely terrible.
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They were like almost half a stride behind on every
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single play. The game was decided in the second period.
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I mean....
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I forgot who mentioned this in the YouTube live that,
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you know, Jake the Snake prevented this from being like
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an 8-2 game or a 10-2 game. Oh, yeah. In
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the beginning. So, again, Devils had the lead. They had
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the lead. You're thinking, okay. But the first period was
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a little bit sloppy. But, okay, the Caps, they equalized
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it 1-1 going into intermission and all right, well, it's
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basically a two-period game at this point. And the Devils
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came out flat in the second period. And before you
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know it, they're down 3-1. But also credit Logan Thompson,
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because I think when the Devils were down 2-1, I
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think Jack Hughes had a chance to put one in.
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The Devils, again, the inconsistencies on offense... The analytics look great,
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but they're not finishing. And these things happen and they
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keep on happening often. But again, it came down to
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the defensive coverage in their own zone. And it was just,
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you can't do that against the Washington Capitals. The Washington Capitals,
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you've got to give them a lot of credit for
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the blocked shots.
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Yeah.
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They played well. Yeah, there's stuff in the lane.
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They played well, yeah.
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And I view them as a 1A, 1B with the
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Carolina Hurricanes, top of the Metropolitan Division. They bulked up
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because this is being Alexander Ovechkin's last season. They bulked
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up the Washington Capitals for now and for the future,
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knowing that Ovi is going to retire and they're all in.
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And if they're going to be all in, If you're
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going to play the Washington Capitals, you have to be
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all in at all times. And that second period, that's
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where the game was won. And here we go again,
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the inconsistencies of the New Jersey Devils, the rollercoaster ride.
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We were running a high with, you know, beating the
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Rangers 7-1. That's good. The players, especially the new players,
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know the importance of that rivalry at home. They took
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care of business. Then they go to Washington. Okay, you're 1-1.
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in that first period, and then boom. The third period
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was really garbage time because all Washington had to do
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was just sit back and relax, and a lot of
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the good plays that the Devils were getting shots on
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goal was a little too late at that point, and
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Logan Thompson, to his credit, was stopping a lot of it.
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But the Capitals, they kind of sat back defensively, and
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they took away a lot of the rebounds because they
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had the lead. It would have been a different game
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had it been 1-1 and the Devils put the pressure
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on Logan Thompson in the third period. You probably would
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have gotten different results than just scoring one goal, which
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Timo Meier finally got with 17 seconds left of the game.
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But honestly, there's really not much to build on other than, look,
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you've got three home games at Prudential Center. You got
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to rebound Tuesday by Tuesday and get this thing figured
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out defensively. Like, it's so inconsistent, Scotty. And, you know, again,
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there's not much more to say. It's not goaltending. It's
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not goaltending. And if I were Sunday, I wouldn't get
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Connor Hellebuck until you fixed the defense. You know, you
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can't expect Connor Hellebuck to save you if you were
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to make a trade every single time.
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Yeah, it's not the goaltending. Like you said, and I
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believe it was Robert Isaacson up here. Yeah, Allen kept
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this game from being 8-2. This was not on Jake
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Allen at all. Serve says Luke, letting that guy get
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around him, turn the game around for the worse. Yeah,
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I mean, that was bad. I mean, that was really bad.
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He got burned big time. On the ice, I know
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it was a power play for the Caps, but, I mean,
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he just right up the ice, coast to coast, and
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around everyone. I mean, that wasn't good. Ariel, one step forward,
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two steps back. No surprise. You know, some tough games
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coming up, too. You know, Colorado, Anaheim, who's no just
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a wash anymore. Anaheim is a team you got to
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look out for. They're playing a lot better, obviously. Issues.
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They can't run with the big dogs, says Wimpy. The
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New Jersey Devils are the most bipolar team from period
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to period, game to game, according to Serve. Oh, Lynn Mars,
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look at this.
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Mr.
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Woo locked out like MLB will be.
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Wow.
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Very nicely done. Very nicely done over there.
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Wow.
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Um, maybe we are making the assumption the devils know
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how to play defense and know how to support their goalie.
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Yeah.
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Uh, Robert, the 17 shots in the third was for
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the analytics crowd. Yep. Um, the second goal, Jake needs
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to have that one, the other three really bad defense
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in front. Yeah. I mean, that's, yeah, you can say
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that Leonard goal. I mean, he may, I mean, he
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was made some pretty moves there and he did the
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same thing that he did to Luke that he did
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to Jake, just forehand backhand. Forehand and then, boop, into
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the back of the net. I mean, it was a
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pretty play by him. But still, yeah, I mean, the
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defense needs to play a lot better.
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Scott, I want to read.
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Does Luke? Go ahead.
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Go ahead. No, I just want to read Robert Eisen's comment.
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The analytics crowd has to add a competitive filter to
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their stats. Yeah, it's called beefalytics. We invented beefalytics. that
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kind of analytics here a few years back, and I
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think we need to bring that back. We got to
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bring that back because I think Evan Rodriguez has, has
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that beefalytics, you know, you know, and it was nice
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to see him, you know, towards the end of the game,
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you know, get a breakaway on Logan Thompson, but he
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has a different element and I think it needs to
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be a team effort. on that competitiveness is, and it's,
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it's usually starts with one player and then it gets,
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gets to be contagious. But, you know, again, I, you know, I,
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I think Jack Hughes has it, but again, Jack Hughes
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can't just do it all himself. And again, it's the
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sense of urgency. Sometimes it's just not there that like
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they come out flat. Now, like last season, when we
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dissected Sheldon Keith's coaching methods, is he not in the
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locker room? in between periods and these guys, you know,
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just sit there and talk amongst themselves and then go out.
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I want to know what's going on in that locker
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room because somebody has got to be held accountable of
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being unprepared out in second period unprepared and just getting
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walked on by the Washington capitals.
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That's a big problem. Yeah.
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And Eric says it right here, Eric Cobb, you know,
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Say what you want about the goaltending. This team continues
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to show no structure. Pressure in the defensive zone. These
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guys have no idea where to go in the defensive zone. And, yeah,
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I mean, that was the case today. I mean, we
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saw something different against the Rangers, and then all of
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a sudden today it was, you know, back to the usual.
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Dub says Jack and Brad better start putting the puck
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in the net. Yeah, we do need them to start
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scoring more. I know Jack is– He's racking up the
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points with the assists and everything like that, but we
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do need to get some of those pucks in the
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back of the net. Very frustrating. Roman, this might be
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the best comment of the day. That was the most
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last year-like game as possible.
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Great comment.
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Yeah. Ariel would love to be a fly on the
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wall in the locker room. Do we need to bring
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in a couple new defensemen? I mean, could be. But
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you are locked into a lot of contracts there from
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old Fitzy. So there's going to have to be, Sonny's
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going to have to get very, very, you know, creative
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with potentially moving people around. Keith needs to go, says
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James Valente. We are way too inconsistent. I mean, that's
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what everyone's been saying. Dubs, eight blocked shots. Help the
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guy out, for God's sakes. Caps blocked over 20. The
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team has not bought in. And, yeah, I mean, we
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can see that from game to game to game when
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we look at the stats afterwards. The opposing teams are
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always blocking 20, sometimes 30-plus shots that the Devils are
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trying to throw at net. And the Devils are, you know,
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maybe in the mid-teens, if that. In blocked shots? So
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the goaltenders are getting peppered with high-quality danger scoring chances,
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which is not really good. Mike Ross, you can't do
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much with our top six since they mostly have no
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movement clauses.
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Yep.
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Thanks again, Fitzy. Wimpy says the fly on the wall
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won't get hit.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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It'll just be bobbing and weaving in and out of
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players and then right out of the locker room.
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Right, right past Jake, Jake Allen and Nico Dawes. Yeah.
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No, actually it'll go right. And just, it just always,
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they're always swarming Nico Dawes and Jake Allen. And you know,
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the rest of the team can't help out. That's, that's
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what's happening with that fly on the wall.
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Oh man. Oh man. Isn't Bradshaw supposed to be a
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defensive guru? Well, looks like he met his match. Yeah.
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They need to get, I don't know, some grizzled hard-nosed
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defenseman in there to really shake things up. I do,
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like Sam was saying, I do like the play of
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Evan Rodriguez a lot. You can feel his intensity on
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the ice. You can feel his drive and his, his
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desire to, you know, go all in on a lot
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of this stuff. And I think we just, we need
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more of that on this team.
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Agreed. Agreed. And is there anybody in the AHL that
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we can call up? Because I, I don't know, like, Right.
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Now, probably Siliev and Ethan Edwards are probably the closest, too.
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It's too early. I mean, Utica right now, they're undefeated
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right now at 3-0 from last night checked. So I
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don't want to mess with that at this point. But,
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you know, when Sonny took over this team, he inherited
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a lot of these contracts, and he said that he
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was going to honor A lot of these contracts, there's
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no movement clauses. But some of these guys, you know,
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we need better performance out of Brett Pesci. We need
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a better performance out of, actually, the entire defense. We
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need a better performance.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, offensively, they're getting shots on goal, but
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at times they seem like they're playing the perimeter game again.
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You've got to fight for positioning in the slot area
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and get inside. Like, you can't just, you know, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass.
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There's just too many passes. And how did Gritsik score?
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Because he just put the freaking puck on net. You know,
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it's that simple. It's that simple. And you know what?
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Keep on doing it, you know, from the start of
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the game to the end of the game. It's very frustrating.
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It's almost sometimes they're looking for the perfect play, and
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it's just... Just catch the Capitals off guard. Just put
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it on net. Yeah. Don't think. You're right.
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And serve's got it right here. They're just skating and passing,
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skating and passing, skating and passing. Yeah, I mean, they
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got to... I don't know. They got to get more gritty. Ariel,
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Evangelista and Brown close to returning? I hope so. It'll
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be interesting to see who comes out of the lineup
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when that does happen. Because the fourth line has been
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playing a lot better, I feel like. And now that
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Gritz has moved up with Jack and Jesper, I think
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they're going to give that a little bit of time.
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Mercer reuniting with Timo and Nico. You got Manta on
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the third line with Stefan Nason and Evan Rodriguez. I mean,
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you know, Nace probably would be a candidate. Lombardi and
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Boquist have been playing really well. I'm not sure. Connor
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Brown should be in the lineup, though, when he comes back,
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and obviously so should Evangelista. So it'll be interesting to
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see what decisions are made on that front for who
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comes in and out of the lineup. Yeah. Roman, the
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Caps reminded me a lot of Carolina. Bigger, stronger, great four-track.
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It's a perfect recipe to blow us out. Yeah. I mean,
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like Sam, we was just saying, they just kept it
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all out to the perimeter. And when the devils play
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that perimeter game, you know, you're going to, you're going
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to kick out a lot of shots by the defense
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and stuff in the forwards, you know, and then I'm
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going to get towards the net.
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Yep.
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Uh, lid Mars agrees, by the way, E-Rod gets it
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works hard, sets the example, but the D is too
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confused to notice. They are very scrambly. I think someone
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said that before too. They looked like scrambled eggs, uh,
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That might have been select or serve, either or. I'm
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trying to give you credit. I forgot. It was way
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back up in the chat. Yeah, and the Avs coming
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to town and the Ducks like, we don't got any
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freebies out there. Dubs are saying Nason and Mantha out.
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Brown and Evangelista in. That would be his call. We're
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going to find out. Sam, we're going to find out
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on Tuesday.
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Night, right? I believe that.
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Is it Tuesday or is it Monday night?
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It's Tuesday, right? Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. That's what we got.
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All at home.
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Colorado, Anaheim, two tough ones, and then the Kings who
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have been struggling. I don't think the Kings have actually
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won a game either. They're like the Flyers. I think
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the Kings are like 0-4-2 or 0-3-3 or something like that.
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Yeah, and knowing our luck, they'll be due on Saturday.
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Oh, they'll definitely be due. Yeah, they'll be due. They're
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going to put up like an eight-pack of goals or
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something like that, 100%. They'll start a– there's going to.
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Be four rookie laps. Oh, the Devils don't do well
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when– first first timer nhlers are on the ice so
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let's let's call up our entire entire farm system for that.
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Game yeah exactly yeah But yeah, I mean, definitely a
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huge disappointing game today. Hopefully it doesn't ruin your weekend though.
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Get it done early on a Saturday and then we'll
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move on and hopefully get some better results on Tuesday
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or at least up just to, you know what? I
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don't mind when they lose, but just play hard out there.
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I mean, I said it, Sam said it. I know
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you were all feeling it too. Like second period, this
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game was over. This game was over halfway through. 4-1,
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it was just like they're not coming back.
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I'm going to add to that, Scotty, because when you
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say play harder, it's subjective. I'm going to use a
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different word. Be more disruptive and have an impact on
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the game. Because they've got the analytics, but are they
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really being disruptive?
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Yeah.
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There should be an analytics of you being a pest,
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which goes back to our beefalytics, being disruptive out in
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the ice. That's a game changer. You know, hockey is
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a game of emotion, a mindset. And that's what Jim Dowd,
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good friend of the podcast, the other day on Devils
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After Dark, after the Devils beat the Red Wings, when
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we were at Miller's Alehouse, like, it's a lot of
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it's mindset. And we have to have a disruptive mindset
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because when you're, when you have that kind of disruptive mindset,
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then you're the one that's initiating and dictating the play.
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So that's how the devils really need to, you know,
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come out as is being disruptive, uh, especially in front
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of the, uh, in front of the crease. So, you know, Sonny,
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if you're watching, you know, I am for hire as
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a consultant, put me in that lock.
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I'll get that.
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I'll get them going. Then sooner or later, they're going
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to just take a page out of Mrs. Wu and
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just lock the door, you know? Yeah. Yeah. But anyway.
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Sonny, I'll take an assistant GM, too, if you need
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some help. I'll gladly, you know, assist in those areas.
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Yeah.
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Get the Let's Go Devils podcast crew there running things.
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You got a different ship out there, Sonny. So, yeah,
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just DM me. We'll get it set up, right?
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You know what? I'll even make it more simpler for you, Sonny.
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I'll be the fly on the wall. You know, that's
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my job. All right.
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00:32:23.890 --> 00:32:27.589
And yes, sir, we did score first, but we didn't
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score again until 15 seconds left in the game. So
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second period woes continue for this team. The defensive struggles
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continue for this team. We're still early on in the season,
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but we're getting up to our first, you know, 10-game
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marker where we like to evaluate things. Three more games
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to go. So let's see how this, or actually two,
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I'm sorry, eight, I guess eight, nine, and ten we'll do. So, yeah,
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I guess three more games to go. Next Sunday on
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the big show, the Let's Go Devils Podcast Network big show,
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we'll do some reevaluation. Of course, we got the This
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Sunday big show as well.
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Morning Woo as well.
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Morning Woo. That's right. Get your cup of Morning Woo.
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But we'll be reevaluating this game and the week that
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was tomorrow night with our good friend Beer Baron as
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well on the Let's Go Devils podcast. Thank you. Thank you, everyone,
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for chirping away in the chat. And hope you have
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yourself a fantastical weekend in the meantime.
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Until next time, let's go Devils.
