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Hi, this is Chico Rsh.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devil's podcast on
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the primetime radio network. Well, hello there, welcome to another
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ripwarm edition of Devils after Dark here on the Let's
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Go Devil's Podcast Network.
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I am Scottie out here in Beverly Hills at the
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Michael J. Fox Studios. As Sam Wood likes to say,
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he is an assignment today. So it's just me here
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on the Saturday sludge as we return from the Four
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Nations face off and the Devil's pick up right where
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they left off, and that's not a good thing. So
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hello to everyone on YouTube and Facebook, on x give
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us a like, fall, give us a subscribe so you
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can come here and you know, feed the misery of
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this Devil's train right now, which hasn't been going very
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well since the start of twenty twenty five, which is
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odd because we know Sam Wu's been telling us for
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years now, twenty twenty five is gonna be the year.
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But they are currently under five hundred. And if they
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keep in this in this new year, in this new year, okay,
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and if they keep playing this way, they are going
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to keep tumbling down the standings. And I don't know
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what else to do over here. Let's talk about it.
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Saturday game back. Got some good news at the top.
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Nicohesha returning to the lineup. That is good. Jacob Markstrom
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returning to practice, that is good news. Seagin Thaler is
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still out. He's gonna be out for a little bit.
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So Shimone Nemets was back in the lineup and kind
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of played like a rookie, which is to be expected,
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but according to him, he's ready to go. So I
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don't know this game was. It was basically the same thing.
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I don't really have a lot of notes on here.
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Devils had a couple, you know, good moments here or there.
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You know, they started off the game really well, you know, uh,
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Covid Savage had a great read on a loose puck
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in the zone and he fed Nate Bastian with a
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great outlet pass right up to the blue line, which
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led Bastion in there for a partial break on net,
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catching the Dallas Stars in a change. And of course,
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the Devils made another journeyman goaltender, this time Casey de
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Smith looked like Marty Brodor in net for about fifty
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minutes of this game. He had stopped everything everything. Or
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was it that the Devils weren't getting as good quality chances.
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I don't know. It does seem like some players, I'm
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not gonna say, oh, but some players seem to just
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shoot it right into the goaltender's chest a lot of times,
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or they just shoot it over the net. So your
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guest is as good as mine right now. But then
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the Stars get on the board there in the first period,
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it was dead and Off.
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I gotta go back to my game summary over here
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on the NHL app There we go, Dad and Off
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got the first goal, and come on, bring that up.
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There we go? What time was that? Three point fifty
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eight into the first period? Shimo namitch at a position
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way too high, going up around the blue line. There,
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Shimon defense, play back, stay back, leaves standing off wide
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open there. Uh, no one's covering him. It's a long
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range shot from dumbbuck and the rebounders kind of sitting
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there on the side, and no one's un dead enough
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and he just puts it in the back of the net.
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Bad play, bad play. Those were the first two shots
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on goal in the game for the Dallas Stars, and
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the second one went in, and then the Devil's got
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a terrible penalty called on that by Brendan Dilon uh
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who's the Big Stars defenseman. There was just freight train
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and some dudes hit Hamilton, knocked over Dawston, Mercer Brett
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and when he hit Dougie Dylan came in there, and
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you know, it was just a little like, hey, how
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you doing and the referee gives him an unsportsmanlike conduct
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complete bs on that call right there. I didn't I
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didn't see anything that was out of the ordinary, you
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know for a little post NHL scrum action post whistle
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NHL scrum. It's not like any punches were thrown or
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really any like massive shoves or anything like that. It
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was just a he, hey, hello, you can't be doing that.
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Brendan Dellen gets in and sportsman like penalty and who
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was it was Harley, who had himself a nice four
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Nations tore him in. Harley gets the power play goal
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right after that, gets a pass, he walks, he walks in,
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gets across the blue line and then just walks right in.
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It's got a nice laser of a snapper there. And
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someone was parked directly in front of Jake Allen, so
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he did not see that at all, and yeah to
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nothing Stars, and it's just like it's the same it's
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the same thing that we were seeing since the beginning
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of the year. They just I don't know. To me,
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it just looks like they are not I don't know.
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The beginning of the year, they were all fire and
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they were out there and they were just battling for
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loose pucks all the time. You couldn't beat them, you know,
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they were just using that speed, and it just looks
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like now they're at times just going through the motions.
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I don't I don't get it. And you can't say
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this team is tired. They just had a two week
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layoff and you're gonna say, okay, well they're rusty. Well,
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the Stars had the same thing and they didn't look
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anywhere near as bad as the Devils did. So I
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don't know. Dells get a power play at the end,
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a nice chance thereby What was it? I think it
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was Jack was skating around the perimeter right and then
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he had a shot and it was sitting right at
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the side of the net there where Stephan Nason was
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and it kind of just trickled past his stick and
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the Stars defender, unlike the Devils on Dad and Off.
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You know, they were tying up Stephan Aason so they
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couldn't get that rebound home. And again, like I said,
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Casey de Smith looking like a world beater over there,
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stopping everything.
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You know, we moving.
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In the second period, Devils get pinned in the zone
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for like two and a half minutes. They can't even
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get the puck out. They did have a nice penalty
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killed Nico Heisher got a four minute double minor there
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for high sticking, drew blood on whoever it was on Dallas,
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and the Devils killed it off with some really nice
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defensive plays. Jake the Snake made a great save right
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at the end, going post a post with a nice
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Lake save, and you're like, okay, maybe this will give
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him a little something, you know, all alone momentum. Then
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you get Timo Meyer, you know who played really well tonight.
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I gotta say Tmo played really well. There was a
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lot of hustle in Timo's game. He's lit the defense
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and worked himself out of partial break. He got hauled
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down and drew a penalty. You know, thought that would
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do something, but it did not. It did not to nothing,
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going into the third and finally, like I said, at
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the fifty minute mark, exactly ten minutes, Jumping Jack Flash
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finally gets a goal power play goal PPG coming from
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Dougie and Bratt, his twenty fifth of the year. Okay, great,
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maybe they get a little life. Oh they give up
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a goal thirty five seconds later, back to the Dallas
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Stars Matthew Sheene. Then Jack Hughes gets another one about
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about a minute after that at eleven forty slapshot coming
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from Bratt and Hamilton. Again, I wish this was a win,
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so we would have had we would have two football
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calls from the King of the football calls himself Sam
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by God woo. But we got an l because that's
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it for the Devils. They get one back and then
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they immediately give it away. They get another one back,
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but then they don't do They can't get anything going
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for the rest of the game. And like the last
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I would say, like the last ten minutes of the game,
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Sheldon Keef finally has changed up his lines a little
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bit and put Nico, Jack, Jasper, Douggie and Luke out
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there on the ice. That's the only way the Devils
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were like generating sustained offense. It felt like, I don't
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know what's going on. They give up an empty netter
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there at the end, shorthanded empty netter. Whatever. I don't
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know what's going on with this team. But the team
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that played in twenty twenty four and the team's playing
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in twenty twenty five looks like two for in teams.
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And I don't know if they tuned out Keith. Sometimes
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it kind of feels like that. I don't know. I'm
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not in the locker room, so I can't tell you,
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But I don't know. When I'm watching these games, I'm like,
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what the hell is going on here? They literally just
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kind of the first three minutes of the game they
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played really well, and then the last ten minutes that's
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not gonna that's not gonna give you ws in the NHL.
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It's just not So the Deviles lose again. Can we
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play every game in Montreal against the Canadians, because that
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seems to be the only way the Devils can get
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the w's lately is that they're playing up in Montreal.
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But I don't know. I don't know. You guys told
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me this team needs a shakeup, they need something. These
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are went back to the same line combinations that weren't producing,
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and we had the same sort of game again. I
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don't know. Maybe I'm being too doom and gloom. I'm
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not sure, but I was so excited for this game today,
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to get the Devil's back out of the four Nations
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face off, which was a lot of fun. Great, but
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we want to win a Stanley Cup. And I thought
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this team was gonna be turbo charged, ready to go
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getting this break. And I thought they were going to
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come out, you know, like a bat out of hell.
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And they really, I mean they did for the first
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three or four minutes, and then it just I w
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I will say Timo had himself a good game, though
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he was deaf noticeable out there on the ice. Nico
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he sure again, it's good to have the captain back,
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so a lot of face off wins, which is nice.
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We know they disappeared there while Nico was injured. I
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think Jake the Snake played a good game. Nem It's
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definitely need some more developing to be expected, but I'm
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not sure what this team they need. I think they
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need some sort of shakeup. I know a lot of
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people disagree with me, but I thought the Stars were
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running them today, and in the beginning of the year,
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you could not run this team. The Devils were one
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of the leaders in the league and fights and that
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is just And it seems now like you can take
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shots on them and nothing really happens. I know a
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lot of people don't like Big Mac put him in
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the lineup, especially when you're playing a bigger team like
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the Dallas Stars. What are you losing on your fourth
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line between Bastion, Tatar and Lazar? Are you really losing
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that much? Hell's bells. I've said up before, put put
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mcderbot in a lineup and put him up top with
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Jack and Jessper and let him just clean house and
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let Jack and Jessper go wild out there. But to me,
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it seems like teams are they've they've figured out a
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game plan. They know they can just shut down the
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first two lines. The other three don't really produce regularly.
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The fourth line is like, you know, nothing's there. Paul
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Cotter is streaky, he's a third he's a bottom six player.
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That's gonna happen. Eric Halla, what's he got like two
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three goals on the year. I know he's been hurt,
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but he hasn't really made any impact. Dawston Mercer. He
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plays every game cool, but he can't. He doesn't he
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doesn't have finish. How many times have we seen him
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just shoot like right in front of the net and
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he'll just shoot it like right into the goalies pads.
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I don't know, Like I think this team needs a
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shake up. I know Sam Wu has mentioned it before,
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a player like Brandon Sheen, Brandon Sheen from Saint Louis.
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I know I mentioned Rock Nelson, There's Jake Evans out there.
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There's a lot of guys out there that can p
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but they need someone with that spark plug that's also
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gonna go and start some stuff. And like I said,
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you could disagree with me about McDermott, and that's totally fine.
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I get it, But I don't the protection he provides
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for these guys, Like, I don't know if I think
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it went a long way in the beginning of the
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season when he was playing more often. That's just me,
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but it seems like teams have figured out how to
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play us, and they have figured out that you just
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need to shut down those first two lines, and then
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the Devils aren't getting much production. And we know we've
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been saying that for a good portion of the season.
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I don't know. I was just really disappointed with the
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way they came out and played today. I was expecting
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a lot more. I was really really pumped for NHL
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Hockey to be back. I'm glad we survived the Four
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Nations face off. Don't pull a Matthew could chuck and
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get hurt in there. Shane Theodor, you know, got hurt.
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There was there was a few guys that got dinged
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up in that. I'm glad that Jack and Jasper, you know,
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made it through unscathed. And I thought Jack looked a
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lot better. He looked lost at times in the Four Nations.
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He looked like, oh I need my PB and J again,
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and so he had his moment. They had their moments,
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but it was nothing sustained, and just felt like they
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lost a lot of battles that again, they used to
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win earlier in the season. So I don't know. I
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think there's gonna be a shakeup at some point somewhere
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because they are just continuing on this downward slide. And
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if we if we do make the playoffs, you're gonna
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have to play a team with the talent level of
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a Dallas Stars. And if you, for some reason happened
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to play someone who's on the lower seed, you know
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they're gonna be battling to get in there. One of
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the wild cards. They're gonna be battling to get in
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there because the race is so tight. They're gonna be
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in playoff mode two or three weeks before the playoffs
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even start, you know what. I'm like the round or two,
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you know, so they gotta figure this out. I don't
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know if it's just me. Maybe I'm being too critical.
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That's possible. I don't have Sam Wu here to balance
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me out. Usually I'm I'm picking him up. For the
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past couple of weeks, it's been Sam Wu tearing me
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up about the devils. So let's hear what you have
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to say. Uh, let's check it out here on the
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old YouTube in Saint Pox is hate being teased, but
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like the fight. Okay, take it into tomorrow's game in Nashville,
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Steven Engels says, relocated the teas Anthony la Pettia. Yeah,
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here you go, another good push, way too late. Maybe
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they have that third period effort in oh, the first
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and second periods as well. Yes, exactly I don't. Yeah,
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I'm not blaming. I don't think Jake Allen played bad.
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The first one, uh Dandanoff was left uncovered. The second
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the power play goal by Harley was a woof. That
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was a nasty shot top shelf, over the shoulder. And
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whoever it was from the stars, I can't remember, but
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I mean there was a big dude parked right in
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front of Jake Allen, like, there's no way he saw
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that puck Eddie. Eddie's cracking himself. Open an hand, crew
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brew time the drink fair enough. I'm right there with you,
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a j Fisco finished finish finish? Where is it? Where
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is the killer instinct? Where is that finish? We used
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to have it and now it seems to poof disappear.
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They gotta get that back. I don't know. You know,
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that's that's on the coaching staff. They gotta figure out
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a way to get these players motivated. Maybe just switch
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something up, Like I said, FITZI, maybe you do need
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to make a trade and bring someone else in, someone
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that's gonna provide a little bit more of that bulldog
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mentality and spark playoffs. I know Anthony selected. At least
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they didn't get shut out, But I wish they would
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play a full sixty minutes. Man, I feel like we've
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been saying that about this team for like the last
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four or five years, and actually forgot to mention someone
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who does go out there and hustle for a full
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sixty minutes. The captain, Nicohesher. He's back in the lineup.
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The other day was actually the four year anniversary of
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him being named captain of the New Jersey Devil. So
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congratulations to Nico Pollock. First goal was Neva's fault. Oh yeah,
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I know, NJ Devil's for twenty I'm not even sure
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what to say. Yeah, I'm right there with you. Joseph
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Lannham bat start again cost him. Tom doesn't like tea
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most I thought, oh, who was that? Joe mom Leon Bischel, Right,
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he's a rookie. Okay, he's a big boy, and he
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was throwing his body around, and I know Dylan went
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to him, but then he got that unsportsman like. I
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don't know, just for me personally. If McDermott is in
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the lineup, I know he doesn't play a lot, but
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teams are thinking something else when he's in the lineup
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because he's gonna get some time out there on the ice. Uh, Tom,
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I will, I will disagree, and you're you're you're fine
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to your opinion. I thought Timo had a strong game again.
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That one shot he had at the side of the net,
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it was reminiscent of one he had before the Four
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Nations break where he just couldn't get it up over
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the I think it was the leg of the goaltender.
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I can't remember what game it was. It might have
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been the Vegas game. But again, here Casey desmithed de
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Smith is going to the post. He's got his leg
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down on the ice, and Timo it only gets it
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a few inches off the ice and leg save over there.
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Val the Rangers got crushed by the Sabers. Well, that
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makes me feel a lot better. I didn't see that.
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I didn't see that score, so that makes me feel better.
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Hurricanes are getting beat by the Maple Leaves. Okay, thank
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you selecta. I like that one too. They're looking looks
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like they might be looking to make a trade too,
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hm hmm, with someone they just acquired. And Saint Pollock
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totally agreed there should have been an interference call on Hesher.
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It wasn't. I don't know how we get that unsportsman like.
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Is justin Kia out there or was that Kelly Sutherland?
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I don't know. I couldn't tell. I can't see too well. Dad.
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Is that Bill Shakespeare over there across across the way.
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Maybe that's what they need. They need a motivational speaker.
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His name is Matt Foley. He's been down to the
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basement for the last four hours drinking coffee. I'm gonna
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call him up and let's see what he has to say.
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Gonna be eating a steady diet, a government cheese, and
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living in a van down by the river. Nobody wants that.
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And NJ Devils four twenty. I thought Tamo played well today.
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I didn't really have a I don't have a I
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don't have a problem. I mean, he needs to put
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the damn puck in the net. But his game overall,
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I don't think has been struggling. I think he's actually
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been very solid defensively. I don't know if you've noticed
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a lot, but Timo Meyer has been getting back and
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covering a lot for our defenseman. So listen, we pay
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Timo to put the puck in the net. Though that
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is a massive part that we need him to really
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really pick up. But I think his overall game has
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been pretty good, and he did I mean, he bulldogged
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his way through that defense to draw that penalty as
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well today. So I don't really have much of a
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problem with Timo. But I understand you got your own opinions,
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and that's what this show is all about. We want
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to hear from everyone, Brooke, Amanda, Hughes, and Bratt. Yet
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they looked good again, but again it was like the
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last ten minutes of the game where they really kind
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of took off. I don't know if Jack when was
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a little jet lagged or whatever. It didn't seem like
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Jack was in full gear there. It seemed like he
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was like stuck in third for a good portion of
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the game. Jack usually has that extra you know, that
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extra charge that he can really go to whenever he wants,
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and it just it didn't seem like it was there
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at first and in the last ten minutes, which is
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becoming an unpopular trend amongst Devil fans. You know, they
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wait till the third period to start playing. Uh hey,
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it's Chris wouldn't lose sleep if the Devil's traded Mercer
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n imich An Tatar. I probably wouldn't. The problem is
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their stock is so down right now. Man Mercer is
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just he's he's a solid, but he just he can't
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put the pucket. It seems like he can't put the
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bucket in net all of a sudden. I don't know,
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he's the He's the one I really think of, like
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it's just like I'm gonna shoot it into the goalie's
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chest or I'm gonna miss the net. And he gets
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he puts himself in good position to get you know,
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pucks and stuff like that, but he just doesn't have
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that finish. That's what we're talking about. His team just
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lacks that killer instinct and they have the guys to
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that can do it, but it's just something that's just missing.
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Joe Mama's gonna take a lot more to get Brady
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could Chuck. Oh yeah, Brooke, Jake Allen was very good
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in games in the game today, Sam Will will not
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be ordering his jersey. But don't worry if you didn't
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hear Brook. Jacob Markstrom is practicing again, so he will
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be back with the team soon. Anthony Namach Mercer and
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a pick for Kachuck and some salary attention. I don't
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know what's gonna happen. I don't know if it's gonna happen.
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There selected there you go, dude. The Devils have to
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start on time every game from here on, otherwise they'll
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have no chance of going deep in the playoffs. Exactly.
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If they play this way in the playoffs, they are
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going to be bounced in the first round. And if
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they keep playing this way, there's a chance they may
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not make the playoffs because that massive point lead that
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they had at the beginning of the season has has
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really dwindled. We got what twenty four games left now
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the Blue Jackets are eight points behind with two games
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in hand. The Rangers and the Flyers are behind them
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as well, But that would be my concern. Is the
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Blue Jackets catching up? And who is It's the Red
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Wings and the Senators. I believe in the Oh no, Boston, Boston.
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I'm sorry, Boston, and the right said the Boston and
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the Sins. I gotta look at the I could have
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swore it, that's what it was. Oh no, I'm sorry,
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it is Detroit and the Sins. In the wild card
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sixty two sixty two, Columbus has got sixty. Boston's also
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got sixty points as well, but yeah, Devils with fifty
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eight games played are thirty one, twenty one and six
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with sixty eight points. Now, luckily Columbus is kind of
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cratering a little bit as well. But that's not how
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you want to go on into the playoffs. Is another
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team loses its way out, you want to win your
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way in. Hey, it's Chris play Seamus Casey Tomorrow it
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might be Steven Angel agrees. Yeah, this fourth line has
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just been abysmal. They really have so. And like I said,
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I get it, everyone has their opinion on you know,
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the big, you know, heavyweight type of player on there,
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but I don't know this team was different. They were
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dropping the gloves, they were hitting people, Teams were looking
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over the shoulder. And it wasn't only because of McDermott either,
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But even see it seems like Dylan and Covid Sevitch,
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even Paul Cotter, you don't even you don't see those
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big hits coming through anymore. Stephen Nason is still there
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in the dirty areas, but I don't even really see
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him like, you know, throwing a lot. I mean, I
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guess he I would have to look at the complete
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box score for it. But I feel like nowadays it's
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more the devil's receiving rather than giving the big hits.
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I don't know, that's just me. Aj says, I honestly
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think Keith has lost the locker room. It does kind
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of feel little lindyesque at this point. They gotta shake
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up something, because it does. I mean to me, it
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feels like they're just like, this is our game plan,
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this is what we're doing. We're gonna do the same thing.
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The same thing ain't working. All of a sudden you
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have to adjust. Oh, Darson, Dawson, Brcer, where are they
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nicely done? Selecta Brook? Y'all don't know what is fitci
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waiting for? Wait, your tongue hurts. I'm I'm you know what.
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I'm not even gonna go there, Brook. I'm not sure
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what's going on there unless you were biting it because
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you were so nervous. Nick Adams says, get Timo, Hamilton,
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Palaw and Mercer off this team. Twenty eight million in
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cap space for four guys who are doing nothing. Dino
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has a good one. You're coaching staff. This is the
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third head coach now with the same issue. Hmm, that's
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a valid point as well. Mike Rosenwig, good evening to you, sir.
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Not well done performance tonight, No it wasn't. And yeah
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it is a red flag. Brook is throwing the hair
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flip out there. Yeah those capitals, man, they really just
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what They're so old they can't handle it. Oh wait,
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they just put up eight goals today. Yes, Pollock, I
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think I think selected was going with the sarcasm. I
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don't think we could do the sarcasm font in the
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YouTube comments unfortunately. Yes, Steven Engel, you're right. The first
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like we said, the first four minutes, they look good.
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Then they went to sleep until about ten minutes to
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go in the game. Like Casey to Smith is a
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journeyman goaltender, and he looked like a five time Vesna
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winner out there tonight. And this is not the first
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time we've said that, and we've used now I'm gonna say,
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we've used the excuse as the Devils are a benchmark
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team that other teams get up to play their best
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against them, and blah blah blah, that's what we were saying.
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And all those shutouts that have happened so far in
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this season and other games where it's just like, how
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is this backup goaltender, you know, looking like Marty Brodor
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out there against this team? What did that killer instinct?
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It's not there, Isaac said Robert Isaacson. I thought it
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was interesting throwing all the big guys out there at
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the same time. I mean they had to. They had to.
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Was the only thing that was producing anything. I will
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say Pallot had a night. Well that was in the
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first four minutes of the game. Polot had a nice
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tip off of someone long range shot. I don't know
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if it was Dougie or Dylan or whomever. Pallotte had
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a nice tip downward. But de Smith, you know, gobbled
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it on up and say Dawson looks stuck. Yeah, he does,
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stuck at his creek. They gotta bring back the bee politics.
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That's right. Select to listen to Sam Wu He's a
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man who loves his bee Poltics. Don't we all bring
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him back? Because guess what this next run is gonna be.
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It's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be another man,
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it's a road trip. Let's just look at it real quick,
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because I forgot exactly I know they're going tomorrow they're
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probably heading out onto the plane pretty soon to go
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down to Nashville. Another six pm Eastern start time, correct, right,
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that's three for me. Yep. Oh, it's on the NHL
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network tomorrow. I gonna remember to hit the old DVR
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in case I missed the first ten minutes of the game.
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Then they go to Colorado on Wednesday, then Utah, Okay,
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then Vegas and we all know about the girl scouts
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in Vegas and Jake Allen. It's gonna be a difficult game.
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Just ask Sam Wu about that. You got Dallas and
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then and you get Vegas, and then you get Dallas again,
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and then Winnipeg. You come home in the first game
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he plays against freaking Winnipeg. Then you get Philly, the
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Blue Jackets, the Lers, who the Devils do not have
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an easy road ahead of them. They have to figure
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this out and they gotta start playing a full sixty
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minute game and bring back the damn beef. You're playing
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a bigger team. Put McDermott in there. I don't know.
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That's all I got. That's all I got. I don't
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want to be too doom and gloom. Yes, yeah, first
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game is against the Preds tomorrow, selected. Yes, you are correct,
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and then the first game back at home when the
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trip ends is against the Jets. So they come off
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the road after like a five game or six game
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road trip, and then your first day back you get
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freaking Jets coming in and hella, buck, it's not gonna
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be easy. This team performed so well in the beginning
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of the season. They need to get back to that.
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How do they do that? Coaching staff fits he maybe
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with a shake up or I don't know, if you
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need like a player's only meeting at this point to say, hey, boys,
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what the hell is going on? Why can't we play
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sixty minutes? Have we seen Nemas Nemetz sorry not being
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responsible in the D zone? Yeah? I mean I was
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the first goal today. He needs he needs developing. He's
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a young kid, I get it. I mean he doesn't
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feel like he needs it, but in reality he does us.
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So I don't know. Something needs to change up tomorrow though,
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because they're gonna be right back at it. And oh boy,
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is beer bearing gonna be p o'd on here tomorrow
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night when we do the Big Show. If the Devil's
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play the same way again, does FITZI get fired? If
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they miss the playoffs. Oh, you're all good, selected, You're
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all good. How many things do I screw up on? Here?
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I screw up everyone's name all the time. I get
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things wrong all the time. Don't even worry about it.
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But I don't know that's gonna be uh NJ Devil's
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four twenty. That's gonna be a good question. What if
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the Devils fully collapse and miss the playoffs this year?
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What goes? What? There's gonna have to be a change somewhere?
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Is that GM, is that coach? Or is that some
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of these core players. Some's gotta give somewhere in that
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or they gotta figure the figure their shit out and
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get it back on track like it was in the
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first part of the season. But if teams have got
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the game plan, they know how to shut you down,
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and it's really you're only getting production from your top
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two lines. You gotta come up with something else to
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shake things up. Right now, I those are my two
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two biggest things, no sixty minutes worth of play, and
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it seems like they're just doing the same thing over
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and over again out there. Now. I've never coached hockey.
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I'm just a fan, So maybe I'm wrong, but it
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was after the first four minutes of this game, it
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just seemed kind of There was a couple flashes here
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and there, but the majority of the time it almost
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felt like, oh that was because you know, maybe the
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stars made a mistake, but the devils didn't cash in
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on it. They made Casey de Smith look like an
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all star. Namach is not toply oh Man, good old
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hot shots, great movie. Lloyd Bridges my cap blew off?
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How can I be an admiral without my cap? Maybe
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that's what happened with Sheldon Keef. He needs his cap.
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Put rabitt of wits in a lifeboat row circles until
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we come back around. That could be days, admiral, So
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put some food in the lifeboat. Lifeboat man? Do I
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have to think of everything? We will see? Let's right now.
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Let us hope. Let us hope, and Brooke, we may
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all be calling you pretty soon for some therapy sessions,
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but let us hope. This was the first game back rustiness,
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even though I don't think it was. I'm gonna hope
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that's what it is. And tomorrow they're gonna get in
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the honky talk mood. Maybe they'll do a honkey talk
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man or Jeff Jared Guitar over the head to the
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Nashville Predators and get themselves on a winning streak, maybe
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even longer than two games. Can we get can we
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get it? I know, I know, the four game streak
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seems impossible. Can we maybe get back to like two
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or three game winning streak? We shall find out, but
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we be back tomorrow here on the list go Devil's
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Podcast Network doing another Devil's After Dark and of course
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Game Day Live beforehand with our man Vindy Perezi and
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Short Skuy taking you through all of the pregame action.
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I want to thank every single one of you for
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tuning in postgame here and letting some of the frustrations out.
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It's okay, we got a vent. We were on this high,
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this four Nations high. The Devils came and kind of
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crashed it back down. But tomorrow is another day and
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another opportunity to switch it up coaching staff and play
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a full sixty minutes players. Let's go, Captain Nico. I
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know you've done everything this year, but you got one
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more job. Get these boys out of this rut. We'll
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be back again tomorrow to talk about it. Until next time,
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let's go Devils.
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Hi, this is Chico Rsh.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devil's podcast on
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the primetime radio network. Well, hello there, welcome to another
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ripwarm edition of Devils after Dark here on the Let's
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Go Devil's Podcast Network.
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I am Scottie out here in Beverly Hills at the
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Michael J. Fox Studios. As Sam Wood likes to say,
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he is an assignment today. So it's just me here
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on the Saturday sludge as we return from the Four
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Nations face off and the Devil's pick up right where
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they left off, and that's not a good thing. So
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hello to everyone on YouTube and Facebook, on x give
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us a like, fall, give us a subscribe so you
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can come here and you know, feed the misery of
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this Devil's train right now, which hasn't been going very
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well since the start of twenty twenty five, which is
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odd because we know Sam Wu's been telling us for
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years now, twenty twenty five is gonna be the year.
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But they are currently under five hundred. And if they
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keep in this in this new year, in this new year, okay,
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and if they keep playing this way, they are going
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to keep tumbling down the standings. And I don't know
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what else to do over here. Let's talk about it.
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Saturday game back. Got some good news at the top.
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Nicohesha returning to the lineup. That is good. Jacob Markstrom
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returning to practice, that is good news. Seagin Thaler is
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still out. He's gonna be out for a little bit.
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So Shimone Nemets was back in the lineup and kind
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of played like a rookie, which is to be expected,
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but according to him, he's ready to go. So I
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don't know this game was. It was basically the same thing.
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I don't really have a lot of notes on here.
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Devils had a couple, you know, good moments here or there.
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You know, they started off the game really well, you know, uh,
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Covid Savage had a great read on a loose puck
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in the zone and he fed Nate Bastian with a
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great outlet pass right up to the blue line, which
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led Bastion in there for a partial break on net,
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catching the Dallas Stars in a change. And of course,
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the Devils made another journeyman goaltender, this time Casey de
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Smith looked like Marty Brodor in net for about fifty
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minutes of this game. He had stopped everything everything. Or
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was it that the Devils weren't getting as good quality chances.
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I don't know. It does seem like some players, I'm
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not gonna say, oh, but some players seem to just
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shoot it right into the goaltender's chest a lot of times,
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or they just shoot it over the net. So your
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guest is as good as mine right now. But then
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the Stars get on the board there in the first period,
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it was dead and Off.
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I gotta go back to my game summary over here
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on the NHL app There we go, Dad and Off
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got the first goal, and come on, bring that up.
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There we go? What time was that? Three point fifty
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eight into the first period? Shimo namitch at a position
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way too high, going up around the blue line. There,
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Shimon defense, play back, stay back, leaves standing off wide
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open there. Uh, no one's covering him. It's a long
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range shot from dumbbuck and the rebounders kind of sitting
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there on the side, and no one's un dead enough
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and he just puts it in the back of the net.
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Bad play, bad play. Those were the first two shots
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on goal in the game for the Dallas Stars, and
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the second one went in, and then the Devil's got
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a terrible penalty called on that by Brendan Dilon uh
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who's the Big Stars defenseman. There was just freight train
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and some dudes hit Hamilton, knocked over Dawston, Mercer Brett
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and when he hit Dougie Dylan came in there, and
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you know, it was just a little like, hey, how
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you doing and the referee gives him an unsportsmanlike conduct
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complete bs on that call right there. I didn't I
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didn't see anything that was out of the ordinary, you
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know for a little post NHL scrum action post whistle
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NHL scrum. It's not like any punches were thrown or
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really any like massive shoves or anything like that. It
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was just a he, hey, hello, you can't be doing that.
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Brendan Dellen gets in and sportsman like penalty and who
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was it was Harley, who had himself a nice four
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Nations tore him in. Harley gets the power play goal
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right after that, gets a pass, he walks, he walks in,
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gets across the blue line and then just walks right in.
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It's got a nice laser of a snapper there. And
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someone was parked directly in front of Jake Allen, so
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he did not see that at all, and yeah to
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nothing Stars, and it's just like it's the same it's
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the same thing that we were seeing since the beginning
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of the year. They just I don't know. To me,
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it just looks like they are not I don't know.
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The beginning of the year, they were all fire and
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they were out there and they were just battling for
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loose pucks all the time. You couldn't beat them, you know,
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they were just using that speed, and it just looks
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like now they're at times just going through the motions.
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I don't I don't get it. And you can't say
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this team is tired. They just had a two week
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layoff and you're gonna say, okay, well they're rusty. Well,
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the Stars had the same thing and they didn't look
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anywhere near as bad as the Devils did. So I
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don't know. Dells get a power play at the end,
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a nice chance thereby What was it? I think it
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was Jack was skating around the perimeter right and then
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he had a shot and it was sitting right at
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the side of the net there where Stephan Nason was
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and it kind of just trickled past his stick and
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the Stars defender, unlike the Devils on Dad and Off.
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You know, they were tying up Stephan Aason so they
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couldn't get that rebound home. And again, like I said,
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Casey de Smith looking like a world beater over there,
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stopping everything.
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You know, we moving.
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In the second period, Devils get pinned in the zone
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for like two and a half minutes. They can't even
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get the puck out. They did have a nice penalty
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killed Nico Heisher got a four minute double minor there
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for high sticking, drew blood on whoever it was on Dallas,
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and the Devils killed it off with some really nice
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defensive plays. Jake the Snake made a great save right
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at the end, going post a post with a nice
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Lake save, and you're like, okay, maybe this will give
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him a little something, you know, all alone momentum. Then
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you get Timo Meyer, you know who played really well tonight.
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lot of hustle in Timo's game. He's lit the defense
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and worked himself out of partial break. He got hauled
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down and drew a penalty. You know, thought that would
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do something, but it did not. It did not to nothing,
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going into the third and finally, like I said, at
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the fifty minute mark, exactly ten minutes, Jumping Jack Flash
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finally gets a goal power play goal PPG coming from
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Dougie and Bratt, his twenty fifth of the year. Okay, great,
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maybe they get a little life. Oh they give up
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a goal thirty five seconds later, back to the Dallas
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Stars Matthew Sheene. Then Jack Hughes gets another one about
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about a minute after that at eleven forty slapshot coming
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from Bratt and Hamilton. Again, I wish this was a win,
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so we would have had we would have two football
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calls from the King of the football calls himself Sam
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by God woo. But we got an l because that's
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it for the Devils. They get one back and then
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they immediately give it away. They get another one back,
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but then they don't do They can't get anything going
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for the rest of the game. And like the last
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I would say, like the last ten minutes of the game,
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Sheldon Keef finally has changed up his lines a little
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bit and put Nico, Jack, Jasper, Douggie and Luke out
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there on the ice. That's the only way the Devils
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were like generating sustained offense. It felt like, I don't
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know what's going on. They give up an empty netter
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there at the end, shorthanded empty netter. Whatever. I don't
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know what's going on with this team. But the team
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that played in twenty twenty four and the team's playing
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in twenty twenty five looks like two for in teams.
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And I don't know if they tuned out Keith. Sometimes
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it kind of feels like that. I don't know. I'm
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not in the locker room, so I can't tell you,
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But I don't know. When I'm watching these games, I'm like,
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what the hell is going on here? They literally just
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kind of the first three minutes of the game they
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played really well, and then the last ten minutes that's
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not gonna that's not gonna give you ws in the NHL.
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It's just not So the Deviles lose again. Can we
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play every game in Montreal against the Canadians, because that
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seems to be the only way the Devils can get
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the w's lately is that they're playing up in Montreal.
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But I don't know. I don't know. You guys told
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me this team needs a shakeup, they need something. These
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are went back to the same line combinations that weren't producing,
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and we had the same sort of game again. I
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don't know. Maybe I'm being too doom and gloom. I'm
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not sure, but I was so excited for this game today,
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to get the Devil's back out of the four Nations
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face off, which was a lot of fun. Great, but
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we want to win a Stanley Cup. And I thought
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this team was gonna be turbo charged, ready to go
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getting this break. And I thought they were going to
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come out, you know, like a bat out of hell.
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And they really, I mean they did for the first
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three or four minutes, and then it just I w
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I will say Timo had himself a good game, though
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he was deaf noticeable out there on the ice. Nico
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he sure again, it's good to have the captain back,
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so a lot of face off wins, which is nice.
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We know they disappeared there while Nico was injured. I
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think Jake the Snake played a good game. Nem It's
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definitely need some more developing to be expected, but I'm
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not sure what this team they need. I think they
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need some sort of shakeup. I know a lot of
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people disagree with me, but I thought the Stars were
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running them today, and in the beginning of the year,
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you could not run this team. The Devils were one
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of the leaders in the league and fights and that
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is just And it seems now like you can take
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shots on them and nothing really happens. I know a
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lot of people don't like Big Mac put him in
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the lineup, especially when you're playing a bigger team like
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the Dallas Stars. What are you losing on your fourth
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line between Bastion, Tatar and Lazar? Are you really losing
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that much? Hell's bells. I've said up before, put put
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mcderbot in a lineup and put him up top with
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Jack and Jessper and let him just clean house and
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let Jack and Jessper go wild out there. But to me,
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it seems like teams are they've they've figured out a
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game plan. They know they can just shut down the
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first two lines. The other three don't really produce regularly.
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The fourth line is like, you know, nothing's there. Paul
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Cotter is streaky, he's a third he's a bottom six player.
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That's gonna happen. Eric Halla, what's he got like two
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three goals on the year. I know he's been hurt,
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but he hasn't really made any impact. Dawston Mercer. He
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plays every game cool, but he can't. He doesn't he
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doesn't have finish. How many times have we seen him
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just shoot like right in front of the net and
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he'll just shoot it like right into the goalies pads.
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I don't know, Like I think this team needs a
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shake up. I know Sam Wu has mentioned it before,
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a player like Brandon Sheen, Brandon Sheen from Saint Louis.
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I know I mentioned Rock Nelson, There's Jake Evans out there.
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There's a lot of guys out there that can p
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but they need someone with that spark plug that's also
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gonna go and start some stuff. And like I said,
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you could disagree with me about McDermott, and that's totally fine.
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I get it, But I don't the protection he provides
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for these guys, Like, I don't know if I think
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it went a long way in the beginning of the
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season when he was playing more often. That's just me,
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but it seems like teams have figured out how to
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play us, and they have figured out that you just
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need to shut down those first two lines, and then
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the Devils aren't getting much production. And we know we've
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been saying that for a good portion of the season.
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I don't know. I was just really disappointed with the
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way they came out and played today. I was expecting
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a lot more. I was really really pumped for NHL
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Hockey to be back. I'm glad we survived the Four
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Nations face off. Don't pull a Matthew could chuck and
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get hurt in there. Shane Theodor, you know, got hurt.
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There was there was a few guys that got dinged
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up in that. I'm glad that Jack and Jasper, you know,
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made it through unscathed. And I thought Jack looked a
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lot better. He looked lost at times in the Four Nations.
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He looked like, oh I need my PB and J again,
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and so he had his moment. They had their moments,
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but it was nothing sustained, and just felt like they
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lost a lot of battles that again, they used to
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win earlier in the season. So I don't know. I
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think there's gonna be a shakeup at some point somewhere
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because they are just continuing on this downward slide. And
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if we if we do make the playoffs, you're gonna
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have to play a team with the talent level of
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a Dallas Stars. And if you, for some reason happened
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to play someone who's on the lower seed, you know
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they're gonna be battling to get in there. One of
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the wild cards. They're gonna be battling to get in
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there because the race is so tight. They're gonna be
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in playoff mode two or three weeks before the playoffs
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even start, you know what. I'm like the round or two,
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you know, so they gotta figure this out. I don't
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know if it's just me. Maybe I'm being too critical.
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That's possible. I don't have Sam Wu here to balance
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me out. Usually I'm I'm picking him up. For the
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past couple of weeks, it's been Sam Wu tearing me
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up about the devils. So let's hear what you have
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to say. Uh, let's check it out here on the
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old YouTube in Saint Pox is hate being teased, but
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like the fight. Okay, take it into tomorrow's game in Nashville,
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Steven Engels says, relocated the teas Anthony la Pettia. Yeah,
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here you go, another good push, way too late. Maybe
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they have that third period effort in oh, the first
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and second periods as well. Yes, exactly I don't. Yeah,
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I'm not blaming. I don't think Jake Allen played bad.
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The first one, uh Dandanoff was left uncovered. The second
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the power play goal by Harley was a woof. That
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was a nasty shot top shelf, over the shoulder. And
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whoever it was from the stars, I can't remember, but
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I mean there was a big dude parked right in
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front of Jake Allen, like, there's no way he saw
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that puck Eddie. Eddie's cracking himself. Open an hand, crew
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brew time the drink fair enough. I'm right there with you,
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a j Fisco finished finish finish? Where is it? Where
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is the killer instinct? Where is that finish? We used
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to have it and now it seems to poof disappear.
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They gotta get that back. I don't know. You know,
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that's that's on the coaching staff. They gotta figure out
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a way to get these players motivated. Maybe just switch
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something up, Like I said, FITZI, maybe you do need
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to make a trade and bring someone else in, someone
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that's gonna provide a little bit more of that bulldog
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mentality and spark playoffs. I know Anthony selected. At least
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they didn't get shut out, But I wish they would
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play a full sixty minutes. Man, I feel like we've
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been saying that about this team for like the last
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four or five years, and actually forgot to mention someone
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who does go out there and hustle for a full
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sixty minutes. The captain, Nicohesher. He's back in the lineup.
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The other day was actually the four year anniversary of
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him being named captain of the New Jersey Devil. So
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congratulations to Nico Pollock. First goal was Neva's fault. Oh yeah,
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I know, NJ Devil's for twenty I'm not even sure
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what to say. Yeah, I'm right there with you. Joseph
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Lannham bat start again cost him. Tom doesn't like tea
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most I thought, oh, who was that? Joe mom Leon Bischel, Right,
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he's a rookie. Okay, he's a big boy, and he
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was throwing his body around, and I know Dylan went
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to him, but then he got that unsportsman like. I
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don't know, just for me personally. If McDermott is in
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the lineup, I know he doesn't play a lot, but
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teams are thinking something else when he's in the lineup
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because he's gonna get some time out there on the ice. Uh, Tom,
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I will, I will disagree, and you're you're you're fine
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to your opinion. I thought Timo had a strong game again.
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That one shot he had at the side of the net,
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it was reminiscent of one he had before the Four
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Nations break where he just couldn't get it up over
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the I think it was the leg of the goaltender.
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I can't remember what game it was. It might have
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been the Vegas game. But again, here Casey desmithed de
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Smith is going to the post. He's got his leg
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down on the ice, and Timo it only gets it
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a few inches off the ice and leg save over there.
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Val the Rangers got crushed by the Sabers. Well, that
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makes me feel a lot better. I didn't see that.
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I didn't see that score, so that makes me feel better.
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Hurricanes are getting beat by the Maple Leaves. Okay, thank
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you selecta. I like that one too. They're looking looks
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like they might be looking to make a trade too,
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hm hmm, with someone they just acquired. And Saint Pollock
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totally agreed there should have been an interference call on Hesher.
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It wasn't. I don't know how we get that unsportsman like.
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Is justin Kia out there or was that Kelly Sutherland?
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I don't know. I couldn't tell. I can't see too well. Dad.
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Is that Bill Shakespeare over there across across the way.
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Maybe that's what they need. They need a motivational speaker.
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His name is Matt Foley. He's been down to the
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basement for the last four hours drinking coffee. I'm gonna
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call him up and let's see what he has to say.
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Gonna be eating a steady diet, a government cheese, and
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living in a van down by the river. Nobody wants that.
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And NJ Devils four twenty. I thought Tamo played well today.
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I didn't really have a I don't have a I
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don't have a problem. I mean, he needs to put
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the damn puck in the net. But his game overall,
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I don't think has been struggling. I think he's actually
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been very solid defensively. I don't know if you've noticed
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a lot, but Timo Meyer has been getting back and
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covering a lot for our defenseman. So listen, we pay
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Timo to put the puck in the net. Though that
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is a massive part that we need him to really
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really pick up. But I think his overall game has
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been pretty good, and he did I mean, he bulldogged
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his way through that defense to draw that penalty as
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well today. So I don't really have much of a
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problem with Timo. But I understand you got your own opinions,
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and that's what this show is all about. We want
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to hear from everyone, Brooke, Amanda, Hughes, and Bratt. Yet
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they looked good again, but again it was like the
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last ten minutes of the game where they really kind
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of took off. I don't know if Jack when was
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a little jet lagged or whatever. It didn't seem like
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Jack was in full gear there. It seemed like he
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was like stuck in third for a good portion of
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the game. Jack usually has that extra you know, that
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extra charge that he can really go to whenever he wants,
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and it just it didn't seem like it was there
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at first and in the last ten minutes, which is
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becoming an unpopular trend amongst Devil fans. You know, they
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wait till the third period to start playing. Uh hey,
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it's Chris wouldn't lose sleep if the Devil's traded Mercer
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n imich An Tatar. I probably wouldn't. The problem is
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their stock is so down right now. Man Mercer is
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just he's he's a solid, but he just he can't
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put the pucket. It seems like he can't put the
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bucket in net all of a sudden. I don't know,
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he's the He's the one I really think of, like
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it's just like I'm gonna shoot it into the goalie's
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chest or I'm gonna miss the net. And he gets
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he puts himself in good position to get you know,
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pucks and stuff like that, but he just doesn't have
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that finish. That's what we're talking about. His team just
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lacks that killer instinct and they have the guys to
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that can do it, but it's just something that's just missing.
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Joe Mama's gonna take a lot more to get Brady
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could Chuck. Oh yeah, Brooke, Jake Allen was very good
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in games in the game today, Sam Will will not
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be ordering his jersey. But don't worry if you didn't
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hear Brook. Jacob Markstrom is practicing again, so he will
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be back with the team soon. Anthony Namach Mercer and
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a pick for Kachuck and some salary attention. I don't
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know what's gonna happen. I don't know if it's gonna happen.
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There selected there you go, dude. The Devils have to
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start on time every game from here on, otherwise they'll
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have no chance of going deep in the playoffs. Exactly.
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If they play this way in the playoffs, they are
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going to be bounced in the first round. And if
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they keep playing this way, there's a chance they may
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not make the playoffs because that massive point lead that
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they had at the beginning of the season has has
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really dwindled. We got what twenty four games left now
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the Blue Jackets are eight points behind with two games
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in hand. The Rangers and the Flyers are behind them
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as well, But that would be my concern. Is the
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Blue Jackets catching up? And who is It's the Red
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Wings and the Senators. I believe in the Oh no, Boston, Boston.
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I'm sorry, Boston, and the right said the Boston and
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the Sins. I gotta look at the I could have
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swore it, that's what it was. Oh no, I'm sorry,
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it is Detroit and the Sins. In the wild card
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sixty two sixty two, Columbus has got sixty. Boston's also
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got sixty points as well, but yeah, Devils with fifty
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eight games played are thirty one, twenty one and six
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with sixty eight points. Now, luckily Columbus is kind of
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cratering a little bit as well. But that's not how
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you want to go on into the playoffs. Is another
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team loses its way out, you want to win your
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way in. Hey, it's Chris play Seamus Casey Tomorrow it
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might be Steven Angel agrees. Yeah, this fourth line has
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just been abysmal. They really have so. And like I said,
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I get it, everyone has their opinion on you know,
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the big, you know, heavyweight type of player on there,
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but I don't know this team was different. They were
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dropping the gloves, they were hitting people, Teams were looking
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over the shoulder. And it wasn't only because of McDermott either,
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But even see it seems like Dylan and Covid Sevitch,
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even Paul Cotter, you don't even you don't see those
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big hits coming through anymore. Stephen Nason is still there
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in the dirty areas, but I don't even really see
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him like, you know, throwing a lot. I mean, I
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guess he I would have to look at the complete
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box score for it. But I feel like nowadays it's
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more the devil's receiving rather than giving the big hits.
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I don't know, that's just me. Aj says, I honestly
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think Keith has lost the locker room. It does kind
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of feel little lindyesque at this point. They gotta shake
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up something, because it does. I mean to me, it
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feels like they're just like, this is our game plan,
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this is what we're doing. We're gonna do the same thing.
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The same thing ain't working. All of a sudden you
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have to adjust. Oh, Darson, Dawson, Brcer, where are they
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nicely done? Selecta Brook? Y'all don't know what is fitci
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waiting for? Wait, your tongue hurts. I'm I'm you know what.
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I'm not even gonna go there, Brook. I'm not sure
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what's going on there unless you were biting it because
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you were so nervous. Nick Adams says, get Timo, Hamilton,
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Palaw and Mercer off this team. Twenty eight million in
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cap space for four guys who are doing nothing. Dino
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has a good one. You're coaching staff. This is the
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third head coach now with the same issue. Hmm, that's
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a valid point as well. Mike Rosenwig, good evening to you, sir.
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Not well done performance tonight, No it wasn't. And yeah
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it is a red flag. Brook is throwing the hair
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flip out there. Yeah those capitals, man, they really just
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what They're so old they can't handle it. Oh wait,
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they just put up eight goals today. Yes, Pollock, I
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think I think selected was going with the sarcasm. I
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don't think we could do the sarcasm font in the
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YouTube comments unfortunately. Yes, Steven Engel, you're right. The first
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like we said, the first four minutes, they look good.
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Then they went to sleep until about ten minutes to
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go in the game. Like Casey to Smith is a
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journeyman goaltender, and he looked like a five time Vesna
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winner out there tonight. And this is not the first
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time we've said that, and we've used now I'm gonna say,
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we've used the excuse as the Devils are a benchmark
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team that other teams get up to play their best
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against them, and blah blah blah, that's what we were saying.
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And all those shutouts that have happened so far in
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this season and other games where it's just like, how
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is this backup goaltender, you know, looking like Marty Brodor
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out there against this team? What did that killer instinct?
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It's not there, Isaac said Robert Isaacson. I thought it
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was interesting throwing all the big guys out there at
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the same time. I mean they had to. They had to.
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Was the only thing that was producing anything. I will
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say Pallot had a night. Well that was in the
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first four minutes of the game. Polot had a nice
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tip off of someone long range shot. I don't know
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if it was Dougie or Dylan or whomever. Pallotte had
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a nice tip downward. But de Smith, you know, gobbled
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it on up and say Dawson looks stuck. Yeah, he does,
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stuck at his creek. They gotta bring back the bee politics.
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That's right. Select to listen to Sam Wu He's a
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man who loves his bee Poltics. Don't we all bring
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him back? Because guess what this next run is gonna be.
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It's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be another man,
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it's a road trip. Let's just look at it real quick,
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because I forgot exactly I know they're going tomorrow they're
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probably heading out onto the plane pretty soon to go
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down to Nashville. Another six pm Eastern start time, correct, right,
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that's three for me. Yep. Oh, it's on the NHL
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network tomorrow. I gonna remember to hit the old DVR
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in case I missed the first ten minutes of the game.
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Then they go to Colorado on Wednesday, then Utah, Okay,
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then Vegas and we all know about the girl scouts
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in Vegas and Jake Allen. It's gonna be a difficult game.
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Just ask Sam Wu about that. You got Dallas and
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then and you get Vegas, and then you get Dallas again,
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and then Winnipeg. You come home in the first game
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he plays against freaking Winnipeg. Then you get Philly, the
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Blue Jackets, the Lers, who the Devils do not have
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an easy road ahead of them. They have to figure
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this out and they gotta start playing a full sixty
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minute game and bring back the damn beef. You're playing
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a bigger team. Put McDermott in there. I don't know.
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That's all I got. That's all I got. I don't
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want to be too doom and gloom. Yes, yeah, first
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game is against the Preds tomorrow, selected. Yes, you are correct,
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and then the first game back at home when the
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trip ends is against the Jets. So they come off
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the road after like a five game or six game
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road trip, and then your first day back you get
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freaking Jets coming in and hella, buck, it's not gonna
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be easy. This team performed so well in the beginning
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of the season. They need to get back to that.
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How do they do that? Coaching staff fits he maybe
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with a shake up or I don't know, if you
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need like a player's only meeting at this point to say, hey, boys,
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what the hell is going on? Why can't we play
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sixty minutes? Have we seen Nemas Nemetz sorry not being
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responsible in the D zone? Yeah? I mean I was
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the first goal today. He needs he needs developing. He's
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a young kid, I get it. I mean he doesn't
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feel like he needs it, but in reality he does us.
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So I don't know. Something needs to change up tomorrow though,
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because they're gonna be right back at it. And oh boy,
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is beer bearing gonna be p o'd on here tomorrow
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night when we do the Big Show. If the Devil's
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play the same way again, does FITZI get fired? If
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they miss the playoffs. Oh, you're all good, selected, You're
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all good. How many things do I screw up on? Here?
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I screw up everyone's name all the time. I get
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things wrong all the time. Don't even worry about it.
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But I don't know that's gonna be uh NJ Devil's
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four twenty. That's gonna be a good question. What if
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the Devils fully collapse and miss the playoffs this year?
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What goes? What? There's gonna have to be a change somewhere?
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Is that GM, is that coach? Or is that some
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of these core players. Some's gotta give somewhere in that
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or they gotta figure the figure their shit out and
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get it back on track like it was in the
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first part of the season. But if teams have got
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the game plan, they know how to shut you down,
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and it's really you're only getting production from your top
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two lines. You gotta come up with something else to
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shake things up. Right now, I those are my two
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two biggest things, no sixty minutes worth of play, and
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it seems like they're just doing the same thing over
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and over again out there. Now. I've never coached hockey.
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I'm just a fan, So maybe I'm wrong, but it
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was after the first four minutes of this game, it
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just seemed kind of There was a couple flashes here
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and there, but the majority of the time it almost
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felt like, oh that was because you know, maybe the
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stars made a mistake, but the devils didn't cash in
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on it. They made Casey de Smith look like an
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all star. Namach is not toply oh Man, good old
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hot shots, great movie. Lloyd Bridges my cap blew off?
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How can I be an admiral without my cap? Maybe
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that's what happened with Sheldon Keef. He needs his cap.
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Put rabitt of wits in a lifeboat row circles until
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we come back around. That could be days, admiral, So
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put some food in the lifeboat. Lifeboat man? Do I
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have to think of everything? We will see? Let's right now.
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Let us hope. Let us hope, and Brooke, we may
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all be calling you pretty soon for some therapy sessions,
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but let us hope. This was the first game back rustiness,
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even though I don't think it was. I'm gonna hope
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that's what it is. And tomorrow they're gonna get in
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the honky talk mood. Maybe they'll do a honkey talk
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man or Jeff Jared Guitar over the head to the
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Nashville Predators and get themselves on a winning streak, maybe
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even longer than two games. Can we get can we
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get it? I know, I know, the four game streak
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seems impossible. Can we maybe get back to like two
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or three game winning streak? We shall find out, but
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we be back tomorrow here on the list go Devil's
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Podcast Network doing another Devil's After Dark and of course
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Game Day Live beforehand with our man Vindy Perezi and
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Short Skuy taking you through all of the pregame action.
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I want to thank every single one of you for
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tuning in postgame here and letting some of the frustrations out.
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It's okay, we got a vent. We were on this high,
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this four Nations high. The Devils came and kind of
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crashed it back down. But tomorrow is another day and
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another opportunity to switch it up coaching staff and play
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a full sixty minutes players. Let's go, Captain Nico. I
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know you've done everything this year, but you got one
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more job. Get these boys out of this rut. We'll
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be back again tomorrow to talk about it. Until next time,
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let's go Devils.
