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The Devils Grid is complete, thank you for participating

  • September 14, 2024


Now for fun, here are the runner-ups from each post.

Runner-ups
Most Underrated: Patrik Elias
Most Overrated: Mattias Tedenby
Best: Patrik Elias
Worst: Jordin Tootoo
Most Potential: Jack Hughes/Luke Hughes (Jack wasn’t eligible, Luke was the most upvoted eligible player)
Most Wasted Potential: Mackenzie Blackwood
Best Defenseman: Scott Neidermayer
Best Handles: Jesper Bratt
Fastest: Miles Wood
Slowest: Richard Matvichuk
Best Forward: Ilya Kovalchuk
Best Two-Way Player: Nico Hischier
Best Shot: Stephane Richer
Worst Shot: Cam Janssen
Worst Goalie: Andrew Hammond
Best Coach: Pat Burns

7 comments

  2. McLeod as “wasted potential” is like getting Capone on tax evasion. Sure, but, uuuuhhh

  4. Great job on this, thank you for all the hard work in putting it together. This was a great exercise, and great result! Thank you!!!

  6. Definitely a few in the “bad” categories on this list that can be attributed to recency bias. Jon Gillies was terrible, but he wasn’t even on the team for a full season. I wasn’t even born yet when the 80’s Devils played so I can’t visually say how bad they were, but going by stats alone, the goalie horror that the 80’s Devils had to put up with would make even Gillies look passable. Granted, NHL goalies in the 80’s let in A LOT more goals than what what they average today, but even then, Ron Low had a -17.5 Goals Saved Above Average in 1983-84 and Chico Resch (as much I hate to say it) had a -23.4 GSAA in 1984-85. Most of the bad categories is more visual confirmation based rather than stat based, but I can definitely bet that if most of us were around to see those 80’s teams, a lot of those players would definitely fit in most of the bad categories.

  7. missed the goalie vote but boy was gillies the correct choice. in a disastrous season where you go through SEVEN goalies and are probably rooting for the tank, you’re not getting angry at whatever 5th/6th string that’s out there just trying his best; nope. didn’t matter. he was so bad he still managed to piss me off on a nightly basis . even when he wasn’t getting scored on just watching him made me mad . hamburglar wasn’t much better at all and even then i’m glad fitzgerald shipped schnarr away so i wouldn’t have to watch that oversized fuck on my tv for one more game

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