Comfortably one of the weakest Devils teams for some time and I include the Regan era in that... why? Because with Regan we knew we didn't have any money, the club was poorly run and the team reflected that but at least we knew that. If we could be vaguely competitive then it was a result but here....we have spent money, big money. For what? Lack of effort, desire and ability. There's some seriously bang average players in this team.
Crawford would have trouble passing water. This guy is supposed to quarter back our powerplay. Awful. He lacks patience and he can't even get us out of our zone. We were pinned several times in our zone by Blaze's forecheck. Crawford does a few cycles with the puck then loses patience and fires one aimlessly for anyone to make something of. He did the same with the 3 on 3 against Flames. Just fired one into the boards half way up the ice for Reid to deal with. Kozun was the best distributor of the puck on the Powerplay tonight.
Crandall - last season he was comfortably the leagues best player. Lets be kind and say he's lacking confidence right now. He's also lacking desire, vision and the ability to create anything. I didn't bother getting out of my seat when he was through on goal.
Waller - loads of potential and speed. No end product. Yes I know he scored tonight but he dipsy doodles his was in to the end zone loses the puck and back the Blaze come. Its costing us. We need more O Zone time and he could really help us here.
Aside from one good shift in the 2nd Batch just looks like he's made of glass. Penny did one check and little else. What a downgrade from Lamon he is. Someone wrote that "Joey Martin could change a game on his own" that was some time ago. He looks laboured. Bags of effort and desire from him but he's not changing any games right now.
Our goals tonight... the first shouldn't have stood as it was after the time had lapsed and the second there was a clear hook/interference by Reid on the Blaze player. Blaze were very hard done by tonight.
To compound matters, the only shinning light we have is the return of Little Brittain. Yay! That'll make us title winning contenders.
Dupont is out of his depth.