2023021164
[NHL.com Boxscore](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023021164)
|Teams|1st|2nd|3rd|Total|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[NJD](/r/devils)|2|0|0|2|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|0|2|3|5|
##Team Stats
|Team|Shots|Hits|Blocks|FOW%|Giveaways|Takeaways|Power Play|PIM|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[NJD](/r/devils)|31|15|12|0.660377%|8|5|0/3|0|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|36|38|15|0.339623%|3|5|0/0|6|
##Goals
|Period|Time|Team|Strength|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|1st|03:00|[NJD](/r/devils)|Even|[Max Willman (3) tip-in shot, assist(s): Luke Hughes (32), Chris Tierney (8)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6349965807112)|
|1st|10:31|[NJD](/r/devils)|Even|[Jesper Bratt (24) wrist shot, assist(s): Nico Hischier (35), Timo Meier (22)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6349966400112)|
|2nd|00:28|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Even|[Tage Thompson (23) wrist shot, assist(s): None](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6349967161112)|
|2nd|17:29|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Even|[Tage Thompson (24) wrist shot, assist(s): Alex Tuch (31)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6349968446112)|
|3rd|15:26|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Even|[Tage Thompson (25) backhand shot, assist(s): Rasmus Dahlin (36), Alex Tuch (32)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6349971028112)|
|3rd|19:23|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Even|[JJ Peterka (26) wrist shot, assist(s): Dylan Cozens (27), Owen Power (23)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6349971222112)|
|3rd|19:54|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Even|Tage Thompson (26) wrist shot, assist(s): Henri Jokiharju (13)|
##Penalties
|Period|Time|Team|Type|Min|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:-:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|1st|15:04|[BUF](/r/sabres)|MIN|2|Bowen Byram slashing against Luke Hughes|
|1st|16:38|[BUF](/r/sabres)|MIN|2|Alex Tuch tripping against Dawson Mercer|
|2nd|14:41|[BUF](/r/sabres)|MIN|2|Dylan Cozens slashing against Jack Hughes|
**Officials**
* Referees: Wes McCauley, Brandon Schrader
* Linesmen: Andrew Smith, Bryan Pancich
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It’s amazing what expectations will do. I’ll see y’all in the fall
just give me Kermit vs. Rempe for the pain and let me die
I think it’s unrealistic to think this D core will grow and get better together , quite frankly , I think it’s a pipe dream. We are banking on a bunch of young guys playing long enough together that they are no longer young but have incredible chemistry? Who are they learning from ? It ain’t each other. We need some veteran D guys here. We are too young to a flaw across the hoard. N the vets we have are wrong god the team. We have enough talent to shop for what we need. Cause this team. Needs to have some new skaters on it n some need to go.
Where can we get the global series jersey for next season? I want to wear one when we play them to open the season.
Let’s not let fitz off the hook. If the goalie situation was addressed early and we picked up a veteran defenseman when Hamilton got hurt(had cap space money) we would be in the playoffs.
Honestly I don’t know how much they genuinely want to make the playoffs this season anyway and the statement is literally just some noise to give an answer to a reporter. Given how poor and injured the team has played and is.
But it’s not a great look.
Can someone do a study on having a kid in the NHL and production dropoff?
I feel like every person who had a kid sucked dick all season.
The core doesn’t seem to like to compete and there’s waaaay too many passengers collecting checks. Roster needs another overhaul 🤦🏼♂️
I think it’s bizarre that more people aren’t putting pressure on fitz. I respect fitz, his patience in addressing long-term issues played a big part in why I thought we were successful last year. He’s given us great long term contracts with our core, but when he had the opportunity to help us get some defensive pieces and a goalie after Dougie’s injury, he has completely floundered on all those fronts.
I understand that he’s got a long term vision for the team, but I think a good gm also needs to be able to make big moves during the season as well, and not wait to address them all until the trade deadline and offseason. I’m afraid that fitz may continue this trend of refusing to make fixes to the team during the season, and this does not bode well for next year, after this team and its core have been exposed for all the world to see.
I know playoffs are a very long shot but dammit the first period had me believing.
Revamp the entire roster outside of the top 6 and Nemec, Hughes, and Dougie on D. Everyone else should be available. I no longer trust Fitz. Took him until the end of Feband TDL to fire Lindy and get a goalie. Even with the goalie the defense is ass.
It seems like Travis Green has done some decent things. But continually playing the fourth line with Brendan Smith? He lost me on that one.
Jake Allen is a cup winning goalie on a good team right now. I feel bad for the guy.
Shouldn’t have fired the coach, this team is super talented just had a lot of injuries with Jack and Dougie out. Just a season of some poor early goaltending and injuries
Jfc I missed this one, but it seems like possibly the worst trajectory: hope followed by a very slow bleed.
Remove the 1st letter from Devils, they don’t deserve it!
There were two bright spots to this game:
1) Being up 2-0 in the first
2) Watching on my DVR meant I didn’t need to devote 2.5 hours to watching them lose to yet another bottom feeder
What a disgusting effort. Too many extra passes, Luke regressed HARD to mid season form after his assist…they couldn’t make anything happen against a team that decided to give them some pushback. Just disgusting
I meant specifically our team 😂
This game sold me on the silver lining of missing the playoffs is that Green cant possibly get the full time gig. The playstyle hasnt changed at all, just a focus on being more conservative. 5 on 5 we are worse than with Lindy. The difference is we are getting league average or better goaltending and its covering up other flaws. This isnt a playoff team.
They badly need a structure and new system, a revamped bottom 6 and a solid 1a 1b goalie situation. Can it be fixed in an offseason? Maybe. But a lot of maybes and possiblys need to end up being home runs.
Hot take but this is probably for the best. We’re not built for the playoffs this year and outside of Boston we’d get our shit kicked in for our first round matchup. As much as I’ve enjoyed our recent wins, I would not like a panthers or rags matchup
I really wanted to come here and just unload on them. Then I heard what Nico said and I couldn’t have said it any better myself. Fitz has a big offseason a head of him. This is to soft and up it’s own ass right now. Changes will have to come.
One pass too many. Cross ice pass that was never going to work. Drop pass the gifts opponents an odd man rush. Failure to get an easy clear and instead turn it over. Don’t even get set up until there are 30 seconds left on the PP. No forecheck whatsoever. Lose most board battles. One and done offensive zone possessions. Trouble getting through center ice. Not challenging opponents at the blue line. Stationary playing catch at the top of the zone in 5v4. Never even getting a shot off but giving up an empty netter in 6v5.
These will be some of the enduring memories of the 23-24 Devils.
Andddd the hope is gone. Dw y’all, bunny did get a second berry last night just for being a good boy. Can’t fault him, and can’t fault our capt’. Not can we fault Jake Allen. Guess there’s some fun no pressure games left for us to watch! I’ll be adopting the same attitude to watching the rest of our season as I’ve been using to watch the Blackhawks lol
Honestly the loss is annoying because the team finally had some momentum and basically all the NHL teams that needed to lose had. Just shows this team does not have the hunger right now for whatever reason.
One thing is certain to me is that Green needs to go and cannot be the permanent coach. I’m sorry but the man is just not good. I liked a little bit of the changes he had made since Ruff left but then he still is doing some of the same stupid shit that Ruff did.
I just can’t get over us giving the coaching job to the guy who literally has created the worst PP in hockey. I mean I think technically we are ranked 30th or 31st in the past few months but still. It’s one of the biggest reason we are losing so many games. On top of that it shows that this team cannot play man advantage well, and yet game after game we pull our goalie. This strategy will not work until this team knows how to play well with a man advantage.
I think all year we’ve scored, what 2 goals when we’ve pulled our goalie? And it lead to basically only 1 game that we’ve won in OT? I can only think of the time when Luke Hughes scored in like 5 seconds skating coast to coast and scored right away. Which basically shows the only time we’ve ever won when we pulled our goalie had nothing to do with us pulling our goalie….
We’ve lost far too many games not due to goaltending. Hard to blame this season on injuries when we basically have the team at almost full capacity and we are looking the worst we ever have. We could have easily won 3rd in the metro if we just showed up against bottom teams in the league.
Luke Hughes/Mercer/Bratt really need to buckle down in the offseason. I haven’t been too impressed with any of them. They’ve had some breakouts here and there for 3-5 games and then it’s nothing for a long time. And Jack needs to really improve his passing/turnovers/skating etc. Mercer and Bratt really need to dial in being more consistent.
The state of the team is what it is. Maybe they needed a good kick in the ass to bring them back to reality? All I know is we need management that can whip this team into shape and bring some life to the team. We need a leader that will actually lead and for the team to show up for all 60 minutes. A new goalie will obviously help, but we will not be an elite team if we just fix our goaltending.
We really are a mickey mouse franchise now.
Blow this shit up and restart, absolute piss weak cunts the lot of them
Team just has absolutely no idea how to clear the d zone. It’s been the main problem the entire year and has never been addressed. And if they do manage to clear they just turn it over in the neutral zone because of a bad pass instead of just getting pucks in deep. I think the coaching change will help a lot but we’ll see
We had a great team last year and blew it up, now we suck. It’s that simple.