The New Jersey Devils are back in action, taking on the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto.
The NJ Devils are 0-2-1 in their last 3 games.
Can they get a desperately needed win tonight?!?
Get it done for Coach Sheldon Keefe!
*UPDATE: Another disappointing outing for the NJ Devils. A 4-0 shutout loss in Toronto. AWFUL.*
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Owners are out of touch and don't care, GM is clueless and inept (but has the unconditional support of the even more clueless owners), the core players aren't doing it, the goaltending is subpar. But hey, at least Jack & Tate McRae will keep us in the headlines, and we have two out of the three Hughes brothers, which is all ownership cares about. These two billionaire clowns ran the 76ers into the ground and they're doing the same to this team.
The team is handcuffed by shitty contracts to Hamilton and Palat, and it looks like both are holding Fitz hostage. And we're likely to lose a good player or two (i.e. Mercer, Noeson) once Kovacevic comes back.
As someone who witnessed this team win 3 Stanley cups, I can't deal with this organization right now. The situation is hopeless unless these ass clown owners sell or Fitz gets fired. And neither will happen. It's just going to be a slow painful death. What a shitshow.
I hope Nico joins an organization that cares about winning, because this one doesn't.
It’s over for this core. Moves have to be made BUT it needs to be a new GM. The absolute clown running the show now should have been fired at the end of the game
Nico is done with this team. No way he re-signs. Our roster is going to look so different in 2027 and that’s a good thing. I’m so pissed that Fitz didn’t sign Roslovic & Geekie in the summer like I said. We could have spent $9million for over 30 goals combined ALREADY THIS SEASON. Anyone that knows hockeys saw what was coming with Geekie.
F*** FITZ!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so F’ing MAD
I turned the game off after the 1st period.
That’s the CRAZY part that makes Fitz SO BAD. People think that our players have trade value (like Bratt) but there isn’t. Bratt may fetch you a 1st and B tier prospect. Or a 2nd and a medium grade roster player. What a joke. F*** Fitz.
Ride or die Ace. Happy new year
Fitz should be fired now!! The 22-23 season should have been a spring board for this organization. Unfortunately, Fitz drove the franchise off a cliff and the franchise badly regressed. Ownership does not care about winning.
Proud of Nico for taking on Knies. That's my f*cking captain! 🥊
Team is so bad, some of these guys with NTC’s should change their mind & want to waive it in order to leave this shitty lame soft team! Right on, Palat should not be top 6. FIRE FITZ! Fans need to chant “Fire Fitz”
Well well well where do I start?
Between MUFC and this team they are hand in hand the same in the way the team is run.
MUFC nickname "Red Devils" and New Jersey Devils both having an amazing history and both now rock bottom since 2012. This is the part I find jaw dropping that both teams after 2012 have been utter trashcan tier. All these years to build and have done nothing.
The core 4 have to go with DOUG and PALAT. Luke stays FOR NOW since hes young and if plays like ass in the next 2 years you can still offload him for something.Mercer is the only player who gets the pass since he doesn't miss games and leads the team in +/- this year at a fraction of the price and has 24P in 39GP which is a win.
At least LEAF fans would enjoy the REG season on a high only to be crushed 1st round which they could forget about very fast unlike us just sucking ALL SEASON and having to witness each game with a bag over our heads!
The team is healthy now…Everyone said at the start just wait untill they all come back…WELL HERE WE ARE what are the excuses now?
Since 1995 captains who have won the cup and their nationality. Let that sink in fellas…..
21 cups won with Canadian captians.
3 cups won with American
2 cups won Swedish
1 cup won Slovak
1 cup won Russian
WE ARE NOT THE SAME!
Scott Stevens (1995, 2000, 2003) – Canadian
Joe Sakic (1996, 2001) – Canadian
Steve Yzerman (1997, 1998, 2002) – Canadian
Derian Hatcher (1999) – American
Dave Andreychuk (2004) – Canadian
Rod Brind'Amour (2006) – Canadian
Scott Niedermayer (2007) – Canadian
Nicklas Lidström (2008) – Swedish
Sidney Crosby (2009, 2016, 2017) – Canadian
Jonathan Toews (2010, 2013, 2015) – Canadian
Zdeno Chara (2011) – Slovak
Dustin Brown (2012, 2014) – American
Alex Ovechkin (2018) – Russian
Alex Pietrangelo (2019) – Canadian
Steven Stamkos (2020, 2021) – Canadian
Gabriel Landeskog (2022) – Swedish
Mark Stone (2023) – Canadian
Aleksander Barkov (2024, 2025) – Finnish
What is scoring?
Ace a real gm would sit dougie ass in the press box until he waives his fucking no trade and move Bratt asap kyrou would be an even trade
Everyone on this team is snake bitten. MAKE A TRADE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE OR CLEAN HOUSE!
Move the core now
Thank you for defending Keefe. Totally agree with you! Fitz is a disgrace…
I blame Fitz for being a dog shit gm and always coming in second but the no trade clauses are part of the game. No one wanted to come here before dougie had to give out the clauses
They better not trade any first round picks for this season the top of the draft is absolutely loaded numerous franchise chasing players
The devils won 8 in a row, the Sabres won 8 in a row after a GM firing. What's in common is there's a hype and belief between the two scenarios. Once the hype goes away, immaturity kicks in and they fall off the tracks. This is not necessary a GM or coach matter. This is a sports psychological matter and they should (already) have the best minds talking to this group and helping them develop the correct mindset. Otherwise, we're going to be in a rebuild before you know it. My opinion and a quick fix, is to change the C to someone that deserves it followong a serious group meeting where they discuss how this is the team. We can't add or get rid of pieces. Wake the F up boys and get this done!!! Have scotty strvens and the like come in donning their championship rings. Showing what a boss looks like and what it takes to win.
HBSE have been sucking the joy out of the Devils since 2018
Gut feeling:
Jack Hughes will not be a Devil next season.
Very talented player, but it’s clear his priorities are elsewhere
Hope you feel better soon Ace. Watching the Devils play is going to make us all sick. Might as well bring back Crookshank and Parent, they had some life at least.
Limping with the devils
To me the biggest Fitz’s blunder was picking Holtz when Askarov was still available . Generational goalies don’t come along very often and he was already showing the signs of becoming one . Sorry for saying this , Ace , but I hated Marky from the moment he stepped on Jersey soil . Even with full team collapse last night that 3rd goal was ridiculous . I am tired of shouting : stay in the f…ing net !!!
Ace, why why why won't they put Timo on PP1. Dammit I'd like to see he and Noesen out there together for big net traffic. I know it would mean one of the skeeters has got to sit but try it! Having Timo come on the ice with 16 seconds left in the PP is ridiculous and he got off a quality shot.
Hey Ace! I’ve been silently viewing for the past few months – honestly haven’t had many words to say about this team. But, I’ll be at the game tonight. To say I’m stressed would be an understatement. The game last night was just pitiful. However, I am grateful for the tickets and that I’m able to go. Just hoping to see a good game, and a Devs win of course, but that may be me asking for too much. Hope you had a great Christmas, and Happy New Year!
The Devils couldn’t find the back of the net with a road map, gps & a tour guide. It’s inexcusable. Ace, I think it’s time to trade your Devils hat for a brown bag again. Happy New Year 🥳
Jack and luke to Minnesota confirmed smh
Worst I've felt as a Devils fan in quite some time. By the numbers, I know we're not as bad as those painful years of the 2010s but it feels worse now because those years were supposed to be for us to be set up for success now. As you said, unfortunately we have an inept GM who handcuffed himself with a flawed roster. His drafting is suspect, trade success is middling when he eventually does make a move, and his contract signings are for players at market value (UFAs) but also adding in trade protections as well for each one. We're over the cap and losing games constantly. I don't expect a move to be done because I think it was Vancouver's GM who said something to the effect of liking Bill Guerin because he doesn't just call to check in and assess, he's ready to actually make a move, and similar to what Quinn said, that sounds like another knack at our GM.
Fact is we'll be lucky to squeak in a playoff spot. Fitz is too incompetent to make any trades that will have any impact. He's a failed GM. Too many NMC/NTC. When your highest paid players are in the bottom half in terms of a scoring but top in ice time….you have a fundamental problem with management. This season is just about a wash unless trades are made and people are fired. Is what it is. NJ could lose 5 in a row and win 4 in a row after. Still a losing record and thats the story of this team. Too little too late. A trade package with Luke and Jack is unlikely with that fat AAV Luke has but a BIG shake up is needed. Too soft. We all love Bratt. We have way too many dmen to have Dougie and Cholowski on this team. Noesen is a ghost, Palat is doing his usual trash. Jack is very talented but seeing him freight trained was a metaphor for this team. Mercer, Nemec/Casey and a 1st for Brady,Batherson. For as much as I love him on his team. Maybe brat involves somewhere in that trade. We're going to have to give up something that hurts a little bit to get Something that helps a lot that's just it. Also Woll got his first SO of the season against us because of course he did
i didnt even have the energy to watch you live cast Ace… also under the weather … this game was an absolute disgrace … Fitz has to go… Trades need to happen or the organization has to stop pretending they care about winning ! … absolute embarrassment…
Hoping tonights game is not as bad… hearing it will be a brawl CBJ plays dirty… either way Happy New Years sir !
Ever since QUINN didn't come here we look like a bunch of sulking cry babies. There are no building blocks here dude. Jack can't even play 82 games and Luke is not ready. This team doesn't play for each other, ask Nico. Nico will run from this team.
Charmin soft love it !! FACTUALLY ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF THIS GROUP… THIS IS ALL ON FITZ… all those terrible contract clauses with no way out so we can find ways to win games …. nobody besides Nico , Glass , Brown and a few others including the hughes… should not be off of the table for a trade… Fitz should quit or hang himself at this point lol
5 on 5 the team has been bad for a long time. Even with best defensive players playing they look like conceding with goalies bailing us out. Nice guy but Sheldon is not the right coach.