Devils in the Details- 1/22/12: Special Special Teams Edition

by Kevin Sellathamby on Jan 22, 2012 9:29 AM EST in Devils in the Details

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Recaps of last afternoon's game [Fire and Ice][NJ.com][Devils][Devils Army Blog][RWTD]

Flyers Center Danny Briere was concussed during last night's game [The Backhand Shelf]

David Clarkson is still wondering what he did to deserve a 10 minute misconduct [Fire and Ice]

Alexei Ponikarovsky is excited to join the Devils. Maybe it's a bit different after last night [Fire and Ice]

Zach Parise does not care about the Devils financial problems [PHT]

The Ottawa Senators don't exactly suck. Which means that there may be one less playoff spot for the Devils to fight for. [Backhand Shelf]

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Flyers Center Danny Briere was concussed during last night’s game

I don’t root for injuries, even to clowns like Briere, but it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

by elesias on Jan 22, 2012 11:00 AM EST reply actions

Jagr was also injured during the game. We may have lost the game, but are winning the battle of attrition!

by elesias on Jan 22, 2012 11:06 AM EST up reply actions

Even with all their injured players not counting, the Flyers are a deeper and more talented team than the Devils right now. Which makes one shudder to imagine how much better our Second Rate Rivals would be if they were fully healthy.

Personally, I think they’re the team that comes closest to the Boston Bruins if they have everyone relevant in the lineup.

by acasser on Jan 22, 2012 12:05 PM EST up reply actions

To be fair the devils aren’t fully healthy either. we could have used Greene, Zajac, and even Tallinder yesterday. Our defense is Salvador, Volchenkov, and the rest all rookies. (I’m still counting Fayne as a rookie.) So of course at times the D is going to be picked apart.

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by Rory B. Bellows on Jan 22, 2012 1:03 PM EST up reply actions

Why say “even Tallinder”? Tallinder is one of our better if not best defenseman and I don’t know everyone seems to hate him. He plays a lot of minutes, he plays against the other team’s top forwards, and he does a good job playing defense. He isn’t a great offensive player, but he manages to get an assist every once in a while and he is capable of moving the puck out of his end. Plus, I always was under the impression that defenders should be able to defend, and Tallinder is good at doing that.

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by slackdog_rm on Jan 22, 2012 4:57 PM EST up reply actions

tough love for Henrik. The guy’s facing teams best lines night in and night out.

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by Elektrostal_Kid on Jan 22, 2012 6:18 PM EST up reply actions

Everyone underestimates Tallinder’s importance to this team. I think if the team struggles w/o #7 everyone will stop complaining about him.

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Jan 22, 2012 8:21 PM EST up reply actions

Agreed. I don’t know how he’s now the new Colin White.

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by John Fischer on Jan 23, 2012 6:18 PM EST up reply actions

Hey, don’t rain on my schadenfreude parade, buddy…

by elesias on Jan 22, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions

I think jagr was a late scratch before the game. But Briere was punching Elias in the back repeatedly before Elias got back up and smacked him one. Although it wasn’t related to the injury, Elias was justified in doing that.

"Its the letter D"

by Rory B. Bellows on Jan 22, 2012 1:00 PM EST up reply actions