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The Official New Jersey Devils Thread v2.0 | Markstrom is a Devil, Pesce next?


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0 goals on 2 five minute major penalties against the rangers is impressive. 

 

This team needs a better offense, defense and goalie. This seems like a bad place to be in

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11 hours ago, Forge said:

We let brunette leave

Would've been nice to have him as our coach but we'll have a whole new staff next year. Team is gonna bottom out under Green. You can just tell that his coaching style doesn't resonate with them. Don't care that he's Fitzy's friend, he's not getting the permanent job. He's got a 20 game audition and it's going horribly so far. 

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57 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

Would've been nice to have him as our coach but we'll have a whole new staff next year. Team is gonna bottom out under Green. You can just tell that his coaching style doesn't resonate with them. Don't care that he's Fitzy's friend, he's not getting the permanent job. He's got a 20 game audition and it's going horribly so far. 

I assume they will hire Sullivan if he's fired by Pitt 

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1 minute ago, beekay414 said:

I'm hoping Brind'Amour's contract negotiations breakdown with the Hurricanes lol

That would be the most amazing outcome ever. I'd love it

If they can't get an ahl franchise, maybe they can't keep their coach. 

 

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A lot has gone wrong for the Devils to be outside a playoff spot. They’ve been blasted by injuries to key players, the goaltending has been a mess, last year’s prized acquisition Timo Meier has been slowed down by injuries and the blue line has been a problem.

Many would attribute New Jersey’s back-end issues to losing Damon Severson and Ryan Graves and the subsequent overreliance on rookies. There’s some truth to that as Severson and Graves were impactful pieces but that’s an overly simplistic view because Luke Hughes and Simon Nemec have arguably been the club’s two best defensemen. The biggest back-end problem, besides Dougie Hamilton’s catastrophic injury, is that Siegenthaler and John Marino, two of New Jersey’s top-four staples, have regressed in 2023-24.

Let’s start with Siegenthaler, New Jersey’s once-emerging shutdown defender. Corey Sznajder’s tracking data reveals that the 26-year-old left-shot defenseman has been a turnover machine — he’s botched a defensive zone retrieval or failed to exit the zone on 36.8 percent of his defensive zone puck touches. That’s the worst mark on the Devils’ blue line and one of the worst in the league.

 

On top of that, Siegenthaler’s numbers defending the rush have slipped too — he’s allowing rush chances against at the highest rate among New Jersey defensemen, according to Sznajder’s tracking. It’s obviously dragged Siegenthaler down to be missing Hamilton, his typical defense partner, but that alone can’t excuse this drop-off.

Marino was a terrific two-way force anchoring the Devils’ second pair last season. He’s been pulverized defensively in 2023-24, owning a 3.57 five-on-five goals against per hour rate that ranks fourth-worst among all NHL blueliners who’ve logged at least 700 minutes this year.

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