[Morreale]_Inexperience comes in different forms — I think Ruff touched on one part of it in the postgame presser last night in that the club has struggled in games after gaining some level of success. Devils fans probably hate to hear it, but it is a lesson being learned.
Inexperience comes in different forms — I think Ruff touched on one part of it in the postgame pressure last night in that the club has struggled in games after gaining some level of success. Devils fans probably hate to hear it, but it is a lesson being learned
— Mike Morreale (@mikemorrealeNHL) May 10, 2023
by Devil_Dane
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As demoralizing as this might be, it’s just the beginning of our journey, and Lindy is right, losing is part of building experience. Next time they’re in this situation they’ll recall their feelings and experiences from these playoffs and not want to repeat them.
I’m not terribly devastated, hurricanes were a favorite to win the cup coming into the season and devils were projected to not even make playoffs, or barely make it.
The summer of 2023 is almost upon us and we can see the makings of a contender. Luke just got into the mix, Nemec is on the horizon, and we got some roster turnover coming.
The boys will take the lickings they’ve gotten this second season and use that to motivate and build into the playoff machine we are becoming.
This is what learning looks like. It’s not pretty and it doesn’t feel good. It also is no guarantee of future success, but you don’t experience success without it.
Correct. When you go up a goal you don’t play looser and deviate from the system, you stick with what got you there. Easy for us to say watching but it’s gotta be learned and consciously done every shift when you’re on the ice.
I’m beginning to think there’s something else going on with this team besides just a simple lack of experience. Every game they’ve lost in the playoffs has been a blow out. They haven’t lost any close games. It’s not like they’re playing well in close losses where maybe if the puck breaks their way once or twice they win or force overtime. It definitely says something about this team. I have no idea what but definitely something weird going on.
I’m getting a little tired of the new Devils fans shitting all over the team because they (might) lose a playoff series.
They’re making it very obvious that they’ve been here for all of 3 weeks and have no clue what it’s been like.
To go from where we’ve been the last 10 years….to this? In one year? Fucking tremendous. A bigger step than anyone could’ve rationally asked for.
The beginning of the rags series the devils tried to imitate what they thought “play off” hockey was and failed miserably at it. Then they reminded themselves they just had to play to their strengths. Lucky us the rags weren’t any good at playoff hockey. Now we are playing a team that can do that while we are still playing regular season hcokey.
Watching the Leafs this postseason almost as closely as I’ve been watching the Devils has been a really great for perspective. This Leafs core has taken SO LONG to even win a round and now they seem so disengaged and almost ready to fold entirely. Compare that to these Devils who are beating expectations and already made it over that first round hump and I’m feeling pretty good about the future (though I’m always a half-full kinda person with regards to the Devils).
They just have to start from zero and win a hockey game.