In the 46th episode of ‘Shout At The Devils’ hosts Daniel Amoia (devils.report) and Justin Brady (devilsfanatics) discuss and debate their projections for the Devils’ Opening Night lineup in 2024-25.
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Keep up the good work youngbulls. 👹🤝
Great video! But no disrespect but Palat on the first line is insane. He’s a 3rd / 4th line guy!
I disagree that the team is stacked. When you have to put bums like Palat & Tatar in the top 6. This offseason needed more emphasis on actual talent & less emphasis on size. Just brought in a bunch of slightly above average players because they are tall. I'm expected to believe that this is going to transform everything from the disaster we saw last season into a top contender? I don't think so. I would give Fitz a C grade for his work during the offseason. Lots of old & mediocre talent brought here. I'm not excited about seeing any of the new additions to be honest. Should have gotten a legit top 6 forward. He failed.
love this podcast
Aka new devils fans lol. We need og devils fans making content.
Let's Go Devils 😁
Every season Dougie mails in defense half the year. He shows up defensively in big games and always brings it offensively. I noticed this in prior seasons. He's not bad defensively when he plays harder when it counts more
All talk. Weak 2nd line. Fragile Jack Hughes.
Prove it on the ice. Then talk.
I see a lot of fans complaining that NJ didn't acquire some hotshot superstar in the offseason and believe that the Devils are going to fail because of that. Honestly, that's already flawed thinking considering that having superstar players definitely does not automatically mean you're going to have success on the ice. The biggest thing for this team is how well they adjust to and play in Keefe's system. One of the things that also contributed to the Devils struggling towards the end of the 22/23 season and onwards into the 23/24 season was other teams figuring out Ruff's system and the young players not having the experience to adjust and the coaching itself not making the proper adjustments to counter how teams were playing against them. It's not all a matter of the players on the ice, coaching is going to be a key part of their success. I know that sounds very obvious, but it's often something that gets overlooked when fans are so focused on the makeup of the roster.
I posted that exact lineup, too, Justin. The defense pairings as well, good work!
Love it, I’m going with some bold takes this year. Kovacevic had really good numbers on a terrible Montreal team and I like him a lot. Very tough. Pesce and Hamilton have played together and Pesce is comfortable on either side, Canes were just so stacked, he never needed to do it. Also, Hughes plays well with speedy players, but he needs size with him- in recent years, we haven’t found many that mesh well with him. I’d like to see Siegenthaler, Nemec and Kovacevic rotating in. Bratt and Hughes create some magic, but due to their size, have shown getting beaten down. I’d like to see a fast, net-front presence with him and have more of a 2A and 2B line combo. Bratt-Hischier-Meier is a true number 1 in my opinion that have all of the elements we need to win. I also think we have 7 D we can rotate nightly. I like MacDermid in as well just to help keep lines honest and kind of have an 11 forward even group with a situational MacDermid in there playing sub 10 mins. There’s always injuries and we can also count on our extras playing 50-60 games which I do in Foote abd Bastian.
1 Bratt-Hischier-Meier (maybe a top 5 line in NHL)
2 Cotter-Hughes-Mercer (Cotter bringing speed, physicality and net front allowing others to play their game) i can see cotter get 20 goals with Hughes
Palat-Haula-Tatar (veteran depth scoring line that’s edgy and skilled )
Hughes/Bratt/Hischier (Hischier would move Lazar to wing) -Lazar-Noesen
Can both score and bring physicality. Creates space for our most gifted offensive players.
Pesce-Hamilton
Hughes-Kovacevic
Dillon-Nemec
Siegenthaler (rotates in bottom 2 pairings)
This would make us so balanced and hard to play against.. again to read easily
Bratt-Hischier-Meier
Cotter-Hughes-Mercer
Palat-Haula-Tatar
Hughes/Bratt/Hischier-Lazar-Noesen
Pesce-Hamilton
Hughes-Kovacevic
Dillon-Nemec
siegenthaler
(D pairings can be put in a blender and disperse minutes)
Markstrom
Allen
…i think as unconventional as this looks, would be a nightmare to match up with, as we have size, skill, speed and leadership throughout with no holes
tatar-hesiher-mercer will be 2nd line they were the 2nd best line in the 2022 season they have chemistry
The top 6 got WORSE.
Tatar is a garbage signing and Fitz just replace Toffoli with Tatar for the top 6 🤡
Huge downgrade.
Palat is garbage. Tatar is garbage.
We should've never let Tatar walk last off-season
No matter how fitzy shapes this team they are to injury prone to go anywhere sry maybe a wc team at best