-Vintage Canuck- Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionofJudah Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 This surprised me. I dont follow the devils so I guess I wouldn't have had any idea but I had no idea he was a leader. Youngest captain in the nhl right now and only the 3rd Swiss born ever nhl captain. Congrats to him! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_314 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 With that contract, draft pedigree and reputation of being a leader it was only a matter of time (and the pickings weren't all that great anyways, either him or Subban, or maybe Severson or Vatanen). Regardless good on him and he has a bright future ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucker 67 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Weird, I thought he's been a bit of an underachiever for a 1st overall 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 1 hour ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: I thought for a second it was Matt Tennyson in the video, then I realized they just waived him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bell Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Him or Subban for captain you obviously pick the player with character. Good job young man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzle Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 32 minutes ago, NUCKER67 said: Weird, I thought he's been a bit of an underachiever for a 1st overall To be fair, NJ sucks. It's hard to elevate your game with such unexciting pieces. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 This was nicely done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 17 minutes ago, Dazzle said: To be fair, NJ sucks. It's hard to elevate your game with such unexciting pieces. They’ve actually been fun to watch this season. Lots of young players/rookies in the lineup and Ruff is allowing them to make mistakes and playing very fast paced. Everyone is buying in. Too bad Covid stopped their season. In points percentage they are currently 3rd in their division at 0.636 (before today’s game). They are also 2-0-1 vs powerhouse Boston this season. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Surprising, but tbh I don't know that much about him. Maybe he's a Horvat type. He's been a pretty consistent 2nd line forward, though I've always hoped he could become a 1st-line guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Thought they might have given Hughes a few more years to mature before making the decision. Going without a captain or naming an older interim captain in the meantime would have been a good move. big honour nevertheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 34 minutes ago, -AJ- said: Surprising, but tbh I don't know that much about him. Maybe he's a Horvat type. He's been a pretty consistent 2nd line forward, though I've always hoped he could become a 1st-line guy. Fwiw Sportlogiq who is a tracking company had him among their top-16 for the Selke last season. No one on Vancouver made the list. Hischier is their solid two-way C that takes their toughest matchups. Hynes his 1st season said he never sheltered him and immediately started playing him against the other teams top line. The high end offence is expected to be Jack Hughes. Him getting the C was rather expected. Coaching staff, teammates and former GM Ray Shero were already talking about his leadership his first few weeks. Ken Daneko couldn’t seem to stop talking of how impressed he was by how Hischier stood up for his teammates and how accountable he was. NJD talks of how there a lot of teams who have a lot of good players but some of those teams don’t excel because they have not created the right culture. He embodies that brotherhood and accountability culture that they push. In one of his early games Palmieri gets kneed by Erik Johnson and Hischier went straight after him as a rookie. Another game Troy Brouwer bumped Blackwood and Hischier immediately jumped Brouwer. Hynes complained that they were taking too many penalties, he takes one and when coming back to the bench tells Hynes to bench him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck73_3 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 3 hours ago, NUCKER67 said: Weird, I thought he's been a bit of an underachiever for a 1st overall 200 ft player with not a lot to work with. Will get better as they add pieces imo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herberts Vasiljevs Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 People are sleeping on New Jersey. Everyone thought after they drafted Hughes that they were going to be a playoff contender (which was unrealistic imho), and, unsurprisingly, after they had a bad season last year everyone has forgotten about them. Funny how the tables turn.... Building a team takes time and it's a process (Gillis ). Along with Montreal, I think they had the best offseason of all the teams in the league. They had a good free agency period and a stellar draft. Also, Blackwood is a STUD with all capitals letters. He's my third string in fantasy. The Devils are on the rise, and as mentioned above, the team's fully buying into Ruff's system. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Torts Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 that young buck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the grinder Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 5 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said: I thought for a second it was Matt Tennyson in the video, then I realized they just waived him... yep have the Captain sit beside the guy they just put on waivers , # teambuilding 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBackup Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Everything I've seen from Devils fans says that while he might not be an elite point producer, he has future Selke potential, so this makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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