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Let's Go Devils Network. As the Devils drop Game one
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to the Carolina Hurricanes today losing four to one, lots
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to talk about. Scotty is on assignment right now. He
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is in the Rocky Mountains somewhere. He does not have
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any kind of sig know the DeLorean that he's traveling in.
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He's it's gonna take him forever to get out of Colorado.
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So I'm flying solo with you today. Devils Hurricanes Playoffs
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Game one. Well, a lot of you Devils fans are
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probably pissed off right now, including me, because in the
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first two periods your New Jersey Devils did not show
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up except for maybe Jacob Markstrom. No intensity, no fire,
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no conviction, then non chalantly entered the game, stepped on
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the ice as if this was some throwaway game in preseason.
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They look gassed. In the first two periods, they looked awful.
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They couldn't even get a shot on goal. And we'll
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talk about that shortly. Let's just go over the game
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recap what happened. Well, right from the get go, two
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minutes and twenty four seconds in, Carolina gets a goal.
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Jalen Chatfield with his first goal on the playoffs, assisted
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by Robinson and Rosslovic won nothing. Games. Now, the Devils
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could have reviewed it because there was some interference with
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mark Strom on that play, but judging by the replay,
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it looked like a good goal. I don't think the
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Devils could have had that overturned. It was too early
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in the game to be challenging, and I just didn't
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think there was enough conclusive evidence. You know of that.
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But right from the get go, in first ten minutes,
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the crowd's going wild. Kanes have a one nothing lead
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and the Devils just seemed like they were two strides behind.
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On every sequence of the game. They were out shot,
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and they were out shot badly in the first two periods.
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Like bad, I don't have the shots on gold total
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in front of me because the internet is not working.
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It's just right now it's just circling and circling and
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circling and circling and circling. But yeah, Devil's got out
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shot badly in this game. But at one point, I
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think in the first period they only were they outshot,
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what thirteen to two. Obviously the Devils didn't show up,
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and Michael Descali says, I love Nick Veolano from pucks
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and pitchforks, but comparing the Kanes first period to the
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Devil's third, saying that it's gonna be a fun series
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so far. Off phase no effort at all, but there
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was hardly any urgency, and that's concerning They just nonchalantley
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started the game like it was some throwaway game in preseason.
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But not the Carolina Hurricanes. You knew that they were
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well coached. You knew that they were gonna show up,
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you knew that they were gonna for check, you knew
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that they were gonna put pucks on the net, and
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they're not screwing around. And that's the difference between experienced
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playoff team like the Carolina Hurricanes and you're New Jersey Devils.
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Although you got some veterans on this squad that have
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won Cups, like doomal in. Guys that have been there,
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done that in the playoffs, like Dylan and Pesci, But
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boy do they The Devils just weren't even in sync.
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They couldn't kill them with their speed. They just look
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god awful. So Hurricanes won the period with the one
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nothing lead any of the first period. Second period, again
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Devils did not show up. Stan Covin gets his first
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goal of the playoffs. Six minutes in sister buy Martin,
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Luke and Slaven two nothing Hurricanes. Then Carolina goes on
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the power play again, stan Covin second goal of the game,
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second of the playoffs, a power play goal. It's just
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to buy Hall and co Benny. And then it's like
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you're down three to nothing, you're getting out shot, You're
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just getting decimated. Niko Heisher gave some life towards the
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end of the second period with a beautiful shot past Anderson.
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Cisco goes to Brett and Peshi. Eighteen fifty one of
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the second period. Devil's down three to one. Now they
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went in the locker room, talked it over, Sheldon Keith
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making adjustments. But now the injuries just starting to pile up. Somewhere.
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Dylan got hurt. Then in the third period, on one
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sequence you got a two for one, Luke Ques getting hurt,
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Cody Glass getting hurt. Devil's playing with four defenseman on
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the blue line. But the Devils kept on trucking and
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they had their chances in the third period. The Devils
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had their chances in the third period, but they came
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up short. Tim o'mayer had a glorious chance Frederick Anderson
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stick save, and I think that's where the momentum could
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have shifted, but Tim Omyer didn't finish, and then eventually
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the Hurricanes put in an empty ender, made fort to one.
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Hurricanes taking game one. Shots on goal. Carolina had forty
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five shots on goal, Devils had twenty four, most of
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them coming into third period. Block shots Carolina had sixteen
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Devil's thirteen hits. Devils actually out hit the Hurricanes fifty
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two to forty one, but again the Hurricanes were in
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full control of this game. Face offs, Devils at the
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edge forty to twenty six. Power play I told you
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about special teams is going to be huge for the
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Devils if they are to compete with the Carolina Hurricanes.
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Devile's oerver two on the power play Canes won for
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three on the power play. So what are your thoughts?
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What are your thoughts as everyone's filing in on the
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YouTube live Facebook Live, what are your thoughts on the game?
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It kind of reminded me of the series against the
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New York Rangers a couple of years ago. Those first
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two games. I remember the Ranger fans were cheering out
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the rock. They're saying bye bye, bye bye, thinking that
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they had the series because the Devils simply didn't show up.
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They simply didn't show up, lack of intensity. We talked
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about b politics. Where is that Devil's team of the
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first three months of the season. Where's that passion? Where's
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that urgency? Where's that toughness? Where did it go? If
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anybody can find that team, I'd like to know. But
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Jacob mark Strom had the intensity. Heck, he chopped his
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own player by accident, Cody Glass. I hope he's okay.
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Jacob Schwroze teams softness is very sad, way too much
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money to be moping around the ice like a bunch
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of wet mops. Wimpy says different vibes. Judas says Devils
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are poorly built. Look, I don't want to hear any
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excuses about Jack Hughes being injured. This team, on paper
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is good enough to compete against the Carolina Hurricanes, but
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with Rod Brenda Moras coach, you better come prepare aired
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and you better come prepared to work. First two periods awful,
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unwatchable hockey, absolutely unwatchable. Third period acceptable, but a little
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too late. More should have been done, but maybe it's
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something the Devils can build on. Whimby says, Jack wouldn't
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have made a difference today. Now he definitely wouldn't have.
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And it's still a problem. Tom's right, Lindy was him,
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Travis Green was him. Now Keith is the problem still? Please,
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The problem is in that locker room. They all have
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to be leaders at this point. They all have to
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lead by example. It's just not one player. These teams
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are too good in these playoffs to just have one
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player just take over. You've got the goaltending. This could
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have been a nine nothing ass whooping today. If it
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wasn't for Markstrom in that it could have been bad.
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It could have been very, very beyond laughable. But Markstrom
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kept them in the game. But the Devils couldn't finish.
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They could have stolen one. But again they get they
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wasted everyone's time in the first thirty eight minutes of
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this game. But remember one thing, it's the best of
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seven for a reason. That's just one game. You got
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to put it behind you. And if I were the
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New Jersey Devils right now, I'd be pissed. I'd be embarrassed.
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If this was a real team, you probably can't even
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look at yourself in the mirror because how poorly you
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played in those first two periods. Unacceptable, unacceptable. The Carolina
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Hurricanes dictated this game from the start. Their fans were
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in it. You knew that the first ten minutes was crucial,
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but you didn't step up to the challenge. You didn't
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step up and try to neutralize all the emotions of
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a Stanley Cup playoff game, the first one of the series.
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And why Davy's right turnovers, lost puck battles along the
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boards and in the corners. You got to establish territorial position.
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Thank you for the super chat. Wimpy says the Kings
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could have beaten us With Louis Anderson today Louis Anderson,
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the comedian Paul C says, it feel like we got
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a bunch of overpaid bums on our team. Forget about
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the overpaid. They just look lost out there. Definitely not
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Timo's faults as Oh my goodness, just seeing that as
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a turning point, but they got to turn it around
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in a hurry for Game two. The thing is with
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the Devils, they have no room for error. However, the
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Kings are beatable. They are definitely beatable. But you gotta
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put the puck on net. You gotta work the goaltender,
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you gotta harass the opposition. Your four check was virtually
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useless tonight, and you gotta play pissed off. And I
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hope Sheldon keef ripped them a new one in the
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locker room because there's really nothing positive to build on
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other than that third period. But even that third period,
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the game was lost at that point, and maybe the
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Kinges were sleeping a little bit. But that's where you're
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gonna take advantage. AJ Visco hate the ESPN broadcast. They
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were on Carolina's. Yeah, I got the privilege of listening
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to both. I went back to the MSG broadcast. Obviously,
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Bill Spaulding is definitely easier on the ears and some
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of these ESPN announcers, but that's just my opinion, of course.
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Tom says, first twenty five thirty games of the year,
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we hit everything that moved led the league in fighting.
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Haven't seen that in four and a half months. No snarl,
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no beef. Politics. Playoffs is about beef. I ain't plenty
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of it for Easter dinner, but didn't see any of
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that during this game. And which Devil's team is actually
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going to show up? Andre? Is it possible to get
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a TV reimbursed after this performance? I'm assuming you threw
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your TV out of the window. That's how I felt.
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Don't blame you. You see those viral videos. It's gotten really
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over the top recently with these viral videos of artificially
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pissed off during the Super Bowl and suddenly they're breaking
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the TV in front of a party of like thirty people,
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their friends and family. Judas says, FITZI has one job
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this offseason, get playoff style guys. He did that, and
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that seems to be the problem. And I've been singing
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it all along, and I've been saying this for a while.
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The same problem exists with different people. This problem even
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existed under the late Race Shiro. The problem exists now.
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Whether it's John Hines, Lindy Rough, Travis Green, and now
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Sheldon Keith. I think they're these play they're being coddled
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too much, and I think it starts from the top.
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That's what I think. They gonna lock these players in
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hotel rooms and it's either win or you're out. You
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gotta have that Neanderthal mindset right now. That's why we
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have playoff beards. You gotta keep it simple. You got
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to get rid of all of the distractions around this team.
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You gotta have one focus. That one focus is win.
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You're gonna go in and hit, You're gonna go in
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and block shots. You're gonna go in and protect your goaltender.
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You're gonna go in and play smart, simple crisp passes,
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dictate the pace of the game, put the opponent on
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their heels by constant, relentless pressure. But they didn't do that.
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They did not do that, and they played catch up
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for the entire game. Right when the puck was dropped,
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it was catch up, catch up, catch up. And I'm
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not saying these guys aren't tough. We all know they
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have it, But why why does it keep on happening
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where there is this loser culture that still lingers. I mean,
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and what I mean by that is there's just simply
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no urgency. You can't tell me that their players left
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it all on the line today. They didn't. They they
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showed up in the third period and it was adequate
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for a playoff game. But they gotta be better than that.
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But it's just one game, and I'm not gonna spin
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it any other way. It's just one game. But sooner
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or later, if they don't figure things out in a hurry,
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it's gonna be four games. And the Devils are out toom, says.
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Our leaders aren't Brady Matthew, Jack Eichel, Ovie Crosby, No,
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they're not. It's an egohesher. He got that one goal,
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but he can't do it all himself. Whimpy's conspiracy theory
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is a four twenty was their pregame. Lol. I'm not
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sure about that. But but also, where the hell was Plott?
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It seemed like he was overwhelmed as well, baked like Missfields,
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says Whimpy. Very nice, very nice, But I don't even
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know what to tell you, folks. It was bad. It
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was really bad. And I'll be honest with you. If
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they show up like that, Game two, Games three and four,
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I'm telling you that right now. There are guys that
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were brought in here for the playoffs. They're not really
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shown yet right now. But put the puck on the net.
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Just drive the opposition crazy to find the puck. They
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know where the puck is when you keep on passing around.
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Put the puck on net and make them figure it
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out where the puck is, whether they block it, whether
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the goalie saves it, whether it goes wide, keep it moving,
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because the Devils look like molasses in the first two periods, slow, lethargic,
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no passion. You gotta play sixty minutes of hockey. The
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Devils only did about maybe eighteen minutes, and that was pathetic.
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I agree with you, Tom, it's on the players. It's
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in that room. Who's gonna step up? Who is gonna
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step up for your New Jersey Devils and n Y
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Dave's correct, And I said this earlier on the podcast.
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Same thing happened two years ago against the New York Rangers.
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But if you want to go far into the playoffs,
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you gotta take take care of business early. You gotta
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get through these first rounds. Sean says it's early, but
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a sweep could be what they need. The team is
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way too content being subpar. Need a serious wake up
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call that this effort is not enough. Maybe Selon Keith
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is not the right coach. Maybe he is. He's gotta
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hold them accountable. Got to hold these players accountable now
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some of the injuries coming in. I don't have the
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latest right now, but with Dylan possibly being out, Cody
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Glass being out, next man up. You gotta step it up.
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There are no excuses for this team. This team was
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supposed to be built for these moments. Where is the muscle?
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Where is the beef? And you know what's most importantly,
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stick it up for your teammates for crying out loud.
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You can't be just pushing shoving. You gotta send a
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message to the opposition. I agree with you, n Y.
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David Kief is a good coach, but you can only
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do so much. It's up to the players decide if
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they're gonna go out there and kick some ass. But
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they're not doing that right now. No intensity. I think
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there's more intensity on this podcast right now than there
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wasn't on the ice tonight. You should be fired up.
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This is your shot to win the Stanley Cup. It
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starts with Game one in Carolina. First two periods, you
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don't show up. Third period, you gotta catch up. Try
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to win this game. They could have made a three
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to two, but they didn't. Now you gotta go back
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to the drawing board and quickly make adjustments because Tuesday
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will come here, really, really fast, less than forty eight hours.
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Puck Drop Act Raleigh, North Carolina. Tom's giving some too
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much info in the YouTube live right now. But the
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Devils they need to do better, and they need to refocus, recalibrate,
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and I'm confident that they could do that. I'm not
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all doom and gloom. But what sucks about trying to
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cover this team is you don't know which team is
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going to show up. And maybe they should start mixing matching,
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messing with the lineup. Send a message. If you're not
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gonna hit, if you're not gonna block shots, if you're
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not gonna defend your teammate, if you're not gonna give
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it one hundred twenty percent, get out of the way.
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We'll put somebody else that would That's what I'm hoping
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some of you guys, saying, put Lazar in at this point,
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I want McDermott in. At least he freaking cares frustrating again,
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frustrating Devil's losing four to one. Oh Dead fan Josh says,
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I'm sitting here wondering where the heavier, edgier, more violent
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that was promised is. Yeah. I mean I thought we
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were supposed to get players that were I don't know
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what did Tom Fitzgerald say, like jerks or dickheads or
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whatever he said, but that's what I want. I want
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them to be that guy, not to ourselves but to
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the opposition. But if you're gonna do it to yourselves,
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hold your own players and teammates accountable. This is ridiculous.
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I agree with you at least a Mets one today,
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but I don't want to talk about baseball. It's still
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a hockey season to me. There's still a lot of
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hockey left. But let's hope they can get it together
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and figure it out and start turning up the intensity,
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or else you're gonna be out a week from now.
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Let's hope that the Devils will figure it out and
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take action, keep it one shift at a time and
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try to get back into this series. You gotta beat
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these jerks, That's right, Corbyn. And I'm not sold on Carolina,
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by the way, because Carolina shows up by default. If
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you don't show up, they will win. But if you
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show up against Carolina, you've got a chance. Freddie Anderson
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is not a god in net. You can't beat him.
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But you got to put shots on goal, and you
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got to get high danger chances. You got to get
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high quality shots on goal. And that's all I really
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have to say. Carolina is very beatable, Yes, Ny Davy,
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they are very beatable. But let's see what happens. Let's
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see what happens. Well. I want to wish everybody again
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a happy Easter, happy belated passover, and a happy four
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twenty today to those that celebrate at least. Luke Ques
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is fine. Yes, select the boy agreed, agreed, All right,
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I'm gonna hit the music. But we'll be back on
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Tuesday viewing party at American Whiskey. I believe we'll have
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more information on our socials. I know Scottie will be
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back in Jersey tomorrow. Devil's losing four to one to
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the Carolina Hurricanes, down one nothing in the series. Keep
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your head up everybody. Until next time, let's go Devils.
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Hi, this is Chika Resh. You are listening to the
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Let's Go Devil's podcast on the Primetime Radio network. Happy
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Devil Sunday. This is Devil's After Dark Company. You live
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live from the Primetime Radio studios inside the Bunker in
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undisclosed location and beautiful New Jersey. Stream of live on
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Let's Go Devils Network. As the Devils drop Game one
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to the Carolina Hurricanes today losing four to one, lots
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to talk about. Scotty is on assignment right now. He
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is in the Rocky Mountains somewhere. He does not have
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any kind of sig know the DeLorean that he's traveling in.
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He's it's gonna take him forever to get out of Colorado.
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So I'm flying solo with you today. Devils Hurricanes Playoffs
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Game one. Well, a lot of you Devils fans are
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probably pissed off right now, including me, because in the
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first two periods your New Jersey Devils did not show
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up except for maybe Jacob Markstrom. No intensity, no fire,
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no conviction, then non chalantly entered the game, stepped on
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the ice as if this was some throwaway game in preseason.
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They look gassed. In the first two periods, they looked awful.
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They couldn't even get a shot on goal. And we'll
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talk about that shortly. Let's just go over the game
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recap what happened. Well, right from the get go, two
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minutes and twenty four seconds in, Carolina gets a goal.
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Jalen Chatfield with his first goal on the playoffs, assisted
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by Robinson and Rosslovic won nothing. Games. Now, the Devils
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could have reviewed it because there was some interference with
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mark Strom on that play, but judging by the replay,
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it looked like a good goal. I don't think the
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Devils could have had that overturned. It was too early
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in the game to be challenging, and I just didn't
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think there was enough conclusive evidence. You know of that.
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the crowd's going wild. Kanes have a one nothing lead
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and the Devils just seemed like they were two strides behind.
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On every sequence of the game. They were out shot,
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and they were out shot badly in the first two periods.
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Like bad, I don't have the shots on gold total
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in front of me because the internet is not working.
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It's just right now it's just circling and circling and
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circling and circling and circling. But yeah, Devil's got out
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shot badly in this game. But at one point, I
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think in the first period they only were they outshot,
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what thirteen to two. Obviously the Devils didn't show up,
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and Michael Descali says, I love Nick Veolano from pucks
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and pitchforks, but comparing the Kanes first period to the
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Devil's third, saying that it's gonna be a fun series
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so far. Off phase no effort at all, but there
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was hardly any urgency, and that's concerning They just nonchalantley
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started the game like it was some throwaway game in preseason.
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But not the Carolina Hurricanes. You knew that they were
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well coached. You knew that they were gonna show up,
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you knew that they were gonna for check, you knew
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that they were gonna put pucks on the net, and
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they're not screwing around. And that's the difference between experienced
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playoff team like the Carolina Hurricanes and you're New Jersey Devils.
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Although you got some veterans on this squad that have
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won Cups, like doomal in. Guys that have been there,
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done that in the playoffs, like Dylan and Pesci, But
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boy do they The Devils just weren't even in sync.
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They couldn't kill them with their speed. They just look
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god awful. So Hurricanes won the period with the one
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nothing lead any of the first period. Second period, again
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Devils did not show up. Stan Covin gets his first
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goal of the playoffs. Six minutes in sister buy Martin,
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Luke and Slaven two nothing Hurricanes. Then Carolina goes on
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the power play again, stan Covin second goal of the game,
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second of the playoffs, a power play goal. It's just
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to buy Hall and co Benny. And then it's like
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you're down three to nothing, you're getting out shot, You're
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just getting decimated. Niko Heisher gave some life towards the
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end of the second period with a beautiful shot past Anderson.
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Cisco goes to Brett and Peshi. Eighteen fifty one of
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the second period. Devil's down three to one. Now they
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went in the locker room, talked it over, Sheldon Keith
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making adjustments. But now the injuries just starting to pile up. Somewhere.
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Dylan got hurt. Then in the third period, on one
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sequence you got a two for one, Luke Ques getting hurt,
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Cody Glass getting hurt. Devil's playing with four defenseman on
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the blue line. But the Devils kept on trucking and
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they had their chances in the third period. The Devils
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had their chances in the third period, but they came
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up short. Tim o'mayer had a glorious chance Frederick Anderson
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stick save, and I think that's where the momentum could
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have shifted, but Tim Omyer didn't finish, and then eventually
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the Hurricanes put in an empty ender, made fort to one.
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Hurricanes taking game one. Shots on goal. Carolina had forty
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five shots on goal, Devils had twenty four, most of
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them coming into third period. Block shots Carolina had sixteen
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Devil's thirteen hits. Devils actually out hit the Hurricanes fifty
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two to forty one, but again the Hurricanes were in
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full control of this game. Face offs, Devils at the
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edge forty to twenty six. Power play I told you
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about special teams is going to be huge for the
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Devils if they are to compete with the Carolina Hurricanes.
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Devile's oerver two on the power play Canes won for
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three on the power play. So what are your thoughts?
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New York Rangers a couple of years ago. Those first
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two games. I remember the Ranger fans were cheering out
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the rock. They're saying bye bye, bye bye, thinking that
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they had the series because the Devils simply didn't show up.
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They simply didn't show up, lack of intensity. We talked
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about b politics. Where is that Devil's team of the
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first three months of the season. Where's that passion? Where's
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that urgency? Where's that toughness? Where did it go? If
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anybody can find that team, I'd like to know. But
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Jacob mark Strom had the intensity. Heck, he chopped his
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own player by accident, Cody Glass. I hope he's okay.
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Jacob Schwroze teams softness is very sad, way too much
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money to be moping around the ice like a bunch
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of wet mops. Wimpy says different vibes. Judas says Devils
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are poorly built. Look, I don't want to hear any
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excuses about Jack Hughes being injured. This team, on paper
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is good enough to compete against the Carolina Hurricanes, but
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with Rod Brenda Moras coach, you better come prepare aired
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and you better come prepared to work. First two periods awful,
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unwatchable hockey, absolutely unwatchable. Third period acceptable, but a little
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too late. More should have been done, but maybe it's
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something the Devils can build on. Whimby says, Jack wouldn't
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have made a difference today. Now he definitely wouldn't have.
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And it's still a problem. Tom's right, Lindy was him,
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Travis Green was him. Now Keith is the problem still? Please,
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to be leaders at this point. They all have to
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lead by example. It's just not one player. These teams
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are too good in these playoffs to just have one
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player just take over. You've got the goaltending. This could
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have been a nine nothing ass whooping today. If it
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wasn't for Markstrom in that it could have been bad.
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It could have been very, very beyond laughable. But Markstrom
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kept them in the game. But the Devils couldn't finish.
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They could have stolen one. But again they get they
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wasted everyone's time in the first thirty eight minutes of
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this game. But remember one thing, it's the best of
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seven for a reason. That's just one game. You got
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to put it behind you. And if I were the
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New Jersey Devils right now, I'd be pissed. I'd be embarrassed.
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If this was a real team, you probably can't even
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look at yourself in the mirror because how poorly you
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played in those first two periods. Unacceptable, unacceptable. The Carolina
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Hurricanes dictated this game from the start. Their fans were
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in it. You knew that the first ten minutes was crucial,
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but you didn't step up to the challenge. You didn't
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step up and try to neutralize all the emotions of
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a Stanley Cup playoff game, the first one of the series.
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And why Davy's right turnovers, lost puck battles along the
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boards and in the corners. You got to establish territorial position.
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Thank you for the super chat. Wimpy says the Kings
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could have beaten us With Louis Anderson today Louis Anderson,
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the comedian Paul C says, it feel like we got
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a bunch of overpaid bums on our team. Forget about
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the overpaid. They just look lost out there. Definitely not
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Timo's faults as Oh my goodness, just seeing that as
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a turning point, but they got to turn it around
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in a hurry for Game two. The thing is with
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the Devils, they have no room for error. However, the
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Kings are beatable. They are definitely beatable. But you gotta
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put the puck on net. You gotta work the goaltender,
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you gotta harass the opposition. Your four check was virtually
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useless tonight, and you gotta play pissed off. And I
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hope Sheldon keef ripped them a new one in the
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locker room because there's really nothing positive to build on
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other than that third period. But even that third period,
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the game was lost at that point, and maybe the
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Kinges were sleeping a little bit. But that's where you're
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gonna take advantage. AJ Visco hate the ESPN broadcast. They
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were on Carolina's. Yeah, I got the privilege of listening
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to both. I went back to the MSG broadcast. Obviously,
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Bill Spaulding is definitely easier on the ears and some
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of these ESPN announcers, but that's just my opinion, of course.
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Tom says, first twenty five thirty games of the year,
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we hit everything that moved led the league in fighting.
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Haven't seen that in four and a half months. No snarl,
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no beef. Politics. Playoffs is about beef. I ain't plenty
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of it for Easter dinner, but didn't see any of
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that during this game. And which Devil's team is actually
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going to show up? Andre? Is it possible to get
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a TV reimbursed after this performance? I'm assuming you threw
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your TV out of the window. That's how I felt.
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Don't blame you. You see those viral videos. It's gotten really
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over the top recently with these viral videos of artificially
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pissed off during the Super Bowl and suddenly they're breaking
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the TV in front of a party of like thirty people,
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their friends and family. Judas says, FITZI has one job
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this offseason, get playoff style guys. He did that, and
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that seems to be the problem. And I've been singing
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it all along, and I've been saying this for a while.
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The same problem exists with different people. This problem even
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existed under the late Race Shiro. The problem exists now.
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Whether it's John Hines, Lindy Rough, Travis Green, and now
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Sheldon Keith. I think they're these play they're being coddled
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too much, and I think it starts from the top.
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That's what I think. They gonna lock these players in
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hotel rooms and it's either win or you're out. You
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gotta have that Neanderthal mindset right now. That's why we
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have playoff beards. You gotta keep it simple. You got
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to get rid of all of the distractions around this team.
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You gotta have one focus. That one focus is win.
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You're gonna go in and hit, You're gonna go in
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and block shots. You're gonna go in and protect your goaltender.
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You're gonna go in and play smart, simple crisp passes,
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dictate the pace of the game, put the opponent on
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their heels by constant, relentless pressure. But they didn't do that.
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They did not do that, and they played catch up
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for the entire game. Right when the puck was dropped,
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it was catch up, catch up, catch up. And I'm
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not saying these guys aren't tough. We all know they
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have it, But why why does it keep on happening
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where there is this loser culture that still lingers. I mean,
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and what I mean by that is there's just simply
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no urgency. You can't tell me that their players left
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it all on the line today. They didn't. They they
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showed up in the third period and it was adequate
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for a playoff game. But they gotta be better than that.
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But it's just one game, and I'm not gonna spin
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it any other way. It's just one game. But sooner
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or later, if they don't figure things out in a hurry,
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it's gonna be four games. And the Devils are out toom, says.
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Our leaders aren't Brady Matthew, Jack Eichel, Ovie Crosby, No,
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they're not. It's an egohesher. He got that one goal,
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but he can't do it all himself. Whimpy's conspiracy theory
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is a four twenty was their pregame. Lol. I'm not
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sure about that. But but also, where the hell was Plott?
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It seemed like he was overwhelmed as well, baked like Missfields,
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says Whimpy. Very nice, very nice, But I don't even
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know what to tell you, folks. It was bad. It
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was really bad. And I'll be honest with you. If
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they show up like that, Game two, Games three and four,
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I mean, you better not show up like that the fans.
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I'm telling you that right now. There are guys that
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were brought in here for the playoffs. They're not really
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shown yet right now. But put the puck on the net.
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Just drive the opposition crazy to find the puck. They
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know where the puck is when you keep on passing around.
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Put the puck on net and make them figure it
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out where the puck is, whether they block it, whether
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the goalie saves it, whether it goes wide, keep it moving,
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because the Devils look like molasses in the first two periods, slow, lethargic,
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no passion. You gotta play sixty minutes of hockey. The
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Devils only did about maybe eighteen minutes, and that was pathetic.
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I agree with you, Tom, it's on the players. It's
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in that room. Who's gonna step up? Who is gonna
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step up for your New Jersey Devils and n Y
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Dave's correct, And I said this earlier on the podcast.
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Same thing happened two years ago against the New York Rangers.
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But if you want to go far into the playoffs,
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you gotta take take care of business early. You gotta
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get through these first rounds. Sean says it's early, but
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a sweep could be what they need. The team is
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way too content being subpar. Need a serious wake up
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call that this effort is not enough. Maybe Selon Keith
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is not the right coach. Maybe he is. He's gotta
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hold them accountable. Got to hold these players accountable now
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some of the injuries coming in. I don't have the
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latest right now, but with Dylan possibly being out, Cody
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Glass being out, next man up. You gotta step it up.
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There are no excuses for this team. This team was
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supposed to be built for these moments. Where is the muscle?
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Where is the beef? And you know what's most importantly,
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stick it up for your teammates for crying out loud.
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You can't be just pushing shoving. You gotta send a
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message to the opposition. I agree with you, n Y.
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David Kief is a good coach, but you can only
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do so much. It's up to the players decide if
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they're gonna go out there and kick some ass. But
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they're not doing that right now. No intensity. I think
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there's more intensity on this podcast right now than there
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wasn't on the ice tonight. You should be fired up.
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This is your shot to win the Stanley Cup. It
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starts with Game one in Carolina. First two periods, you
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don't show up. Third period, you gotta catch up. Try
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to win this game. They could have made a three
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to two, but they didn't. Now you gotta go back
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to the drawing board and quickly make adjustments because Tuesday
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will come here, really, really fast, less than forty eight hours.
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Puck Drop Act Raleigh, North Carolina. Tom's giving some too
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much info in the YouTube live right now. But the
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Devils they need to do better, and they need to refocus, recalibrate,
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and I'm confident that they could do that. I'm not
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all doom and gloom. But what sucks about trying to
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cover this team is you don't know which team is
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going to show up. And maybe they should start mixing matching,
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messing with the lineup. Send a message. If you're not
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gonna hit, if you're not gonna block shots, if you're
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not gonna defend your teammate, if you're not gonna give
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it one hundred twenty percent, get out of the way.
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We'll put somebody else that would That's what I'm hoping
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some of you guys, saying, put Lazar in at this point,
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I want McDermott in. At least he freaking cares frustrating again,
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frustrating Devil's losing four to one. Oh Dead fan Josh says,
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I'm sitting here wondering where the heavier, edgier, more violent
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that was promised is. Yeah. I mean I thought we
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were supposed to get players that were I don't know
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what did Tom Fitzgerald say, like jerks or dickheads or
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whatever he said, but that's what I want. I want
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them to be that guy, not to ourselves but to
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the opposition. But if you're gonna do it to yourselves,
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hold your own players and teammates accountable. This is ridiculous.
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I agree with you at least a Mets one today,
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but I don't want to talk about baseball. It's still
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a hockey season to me. There's still a lot of
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hockey left. But let's hope they can get it together
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and figure it out and start turning up the intensity,
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or else you're gonna be out a week from now.
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Let's hope that the Devils will figure it out and
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take action, keep it one shift at a time and
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try to get back into this series. You gotta beat
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these jerks, That's right, Corbyn. And I'm not sold on Carolina,
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by the way, because Carolina shows up by default. If
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you don't show up, they will win. But if you
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show up against Carolina, you've got a chance. Freddie Anderson
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is not a god in net. You can't beat him.
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But you got to put shots on goal, and you
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got to get high danger chances. You got to get
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high quality shots on goal. And that's all I really
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have to say. Carolina is very beatable, Yes, Ny Davy,
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they are very beatable. But let's see what happens. Let's
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see what happens. Well. I want to wish everybody again
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a happy Easter, happy belated passover, and a happy four
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twenty today to those that celebrate at least. Luke Ques
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is fine. Yes, select the boy agreed, agreed, All right,
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I'm gonna hit the music. But we'll be back on
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Tuesday viewing party at American Whiskey. I believe we'll have
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more information on our socials. I know Scottie will be
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back in Jersey tomorrow. Devil's losing four to one to
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the Carolina Hurricanes, down one nothing in the series. Keep
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your head up everybody. Until next time, let's go Devils.
