Le directeur général des Devils du New Jersey, Tom Fitzgerald, s’est entretenu avec Bryce Salvador et Erika Wachter avant le dernier match de la saison, le 15/04/24 contre les Islanders de New York. Tom a parlé d’une variété de sujets sur cette saison décevante et a attendu avec impatience la saison prochaine. Quelle triste saison ce fut pour les Devils du NJ 2023-2024. Je discute et critique ce que Tom Fitzgerald a dit dans cette vidéo. Vous pouvez regarder l’interview de Tom Fitzgerald ci-dessous : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJXLu-JQ044&t=9s Faites-moi part de vos réflexions dans les commentaires. Voir nos autres vidéos pour Devils Coverage! Abonnez-vous pour plus de contenu Devils à venir ! : https://www.youtube.com/@runninwiththedevils?sub_confirmation=1 Suivez-nous sur Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/7BYmvZzdWiRfnEZzZA8RJd Suivez-nous sur Instagram : https : //www.instagram.com/runninwiththenjdevils/ Suivez-nous sur X : https://www.instagram.com/runninwiththenjdevils/ #njdevils #newjerseydevils #tomfitzgerald #erikawachter #devils #nhl #hockey #njdevilspodcast #newjerseydevilspodcast
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"Playoffs or Bust!" Playoff or bust my ass, if that was the case then why didn't he make any moves to fix the issue, mid season? Why did he wait to the deadline to do anything at all? That is all on HIM! He screwed the pooch on that. Teams are built from the Goalie out. The goalie is not a second thought position. I want Ullmark.
"I'm the leader of the pack and I have to do a better job…" Thank you Captain Obvious"
I love fighters and what they do for a team. I even love MacDermid but I think they can do better. BRANDON DUHAIME is a UFA and can actually play hockey whereas MacDermid is a one trick pony. I’m fine with signing MacDermid but I would also sign DUHAIME as the 4LW. He’s only 26 making 1.1 mil this year. I think a 3 yr 4.5 mil contract should get that deal done. Acquire Tkachuk, sign DUHAIME and find a two way center for the 3rd line.
Timo Nico Bratt
Brady Jack Mercer
Palat ? Lazar
DUHAIME Haula Bastian
MacDermid Tierney
Remember: Patience, is the key. Sorry, but how can anyone not look at Fitzgerald, as a complete clown, who has zero business in the GM position? The “everyone is being evaluated” line, is getting old, and I’m sick of hearing him say it. All the signs were there, MONTHS ago with goaltending, was plainly obvious. These moves should have been made in December, maybe January.
As for Holtz. You dont spend 7th pick on a player only to turn him into a two-way player. Holtz lacks a little bit of size for that. As for MacDermid. He is the player who needs to be signed last. If at all. He doesn't provide anything to this team. He didn't boost the results. You sign bigger players and MacDermid is the least of your worries. However, if after all signings you've got some money left , sign Dermid. No problem
How is Holtz supposed to be used as a trade chip when our GM has made him so appealing to the league? Why would anyone want Holtz after he said the quiet part out loud in a press conference? He should have been doing the exact opposite if his intent is to move him. Fitz is special, and I don't mean in that Cracker Jack prize sort of way. All of his goodwill has been eroded in 1 season. What a Goof.
Just my opinion but I think you place way to much blame on V and schmido. Defense this year was atrocious. Marino was a ghost. Bahl plays like the tooth fairy. Losing severson and graves were huge in combination with douggie. I’ll give Luke and nemec a rookie pass.
Even the forwards are soft. Not expecting much from Jack but the only forward who even showed any fight was bratter. Nico can whine all he wants but for 6’2 buddy had a soft season
Easy to blame goalies when the team has infrastructural issues.
Tom "Patient to a Fault" Fitzgerald.
On the 16th day, of the 4th month, in the 24th year of our 2nd millennium – I hereby chirsten thee, from this day forth, "Faultzgerald".
They got good goaltending from Allen and Khakonen and still sucked. They fired the coach and still sucked. This year was more on the players than anything else. Fitz fumbled this year no question but I'm tired of the fans putting most the blame on the GM and coaching staff. Talent alone they should've made the playoffs. There was no heart or hustle that we saw from last year.
my most worries in the off season.
-New signed coaches will realize the team is ran by the new jersey analytics team and they will not want any part of signing with the team
-because of that were stuck with Travis green
-the devils organization don't have the balls to get a coach like john Tortorella they want a soft coach.
-Fits signing markstrom in NHL standards needs to be in a retirement home. and he will not sign anybody on the blue line.
Hey pal….from a true Ranger fan I just wanted to compliment you on great job you do….Got me coming back all year even though we had some fun with each other. I tell you brother…I may have to thank you and Your Devils for beating us last year…we were not ready and remembering the stories coming from the Ranger locker room after that loss and making sure something like this was never felt again..I really feel with this team…30 yr anniversary…. Thanks again pal !!
My friend, I think you're doing a great job and this has become my go-to channel for a lot of Devils stuff. However, this is a lot simpler than you're making it. To say Fitzgerald didn't really mean it when he said "playoffs or bust" is silly. He meant it. He just didn't get it done. There's a difference.
To question his decisions is fine, and warranted. But "reading between the lines" as to his unspoken intentions or motives or some kind of deeper nefarious reason as to WHY he didn't get it done … I don't get it. If you're not going to take him at his word, why listen to anything he says at all?
Picks are not useless. If you want to trade for a goalie, or trade with Ottawa for Tkachuk … teams might want those picks. You said yourself we weren't winning with Toffoli.
I'm guessing he didn't trade for Jake Allen mid-season possibly because he was trying to get Markstrom, and that fell through. Jake Allen was hardly at the top of my list on goalies to trade for. And he can't be the number one guy next year. No way. There's a reason he was a third-stringer in Montreal.
Sorry to be critical and for the novel-length post. I am very curious to see who the coach will be and I agree it won't be Green.
What a depressing end to the season, we really should have been at the complete opposite end of this not everything goes our way. This CANNOT happen again
Im not the biggest fan of fitz i do think we could have made the playoffs for sure.. i wasnt the. Biggest fan of toffoli so i guess its better to get something than lose him for nothing. Also making a run with jack injured would have been super tough
Jake allen hasnt looked that good as of late
I remember how angry and butthurt he sounded. When he was talking about letting go of Linda ruff. He blamed the players completely. Now I guarantee you he's not going to want to buy what we really need in the off-season. He's probably going to try to tiptoe around spending money because he's an idiot when it comes to spending the right money on the right player. The fact we only got a second and third for Tyler is a joke. They treated it like a salary dump
I picked up on Sal hedging his bets right away too. Scary but what GM wants to trade w Trotz? Screw it let's go Devs
With Buffalo just cleaning house, I’m sure as per how the rest of the season has gone; Fitz will wait until the day before next season to hire/replace the coaches. I’m also optimistic that we have seen Green for the last time behind the bench here. I saw on a Wild rumor mill page that they were inquiring about trading for Siegenthaler for Gustavvson which I think you do in a heartbeat. Then use some of the other assets to bring in Chychrun or another real top four defenseman and one more bottom pairing guy. Other goalies who may not be insanely overpriced would be Logan Thompson (or maybe Adin Hill) because of vegas cap space, Binnington who we saw this season is still solid even with his attitude issues; and to some defeee Ullmark because of Bostons cap space. Getting Markstrom would be great if we had a guy in the minors we were convinced would become a great starter in two year. I don’t know that we have that so I’d rather get someone who we could have play for most of our active window
I worry truly about their mental toughness
The thing about the way other teams play when there is a big guy on the team is soo TRUE. Main example the rangers w repme. And if we get another guy like macdermid and with good goal tending I think the core group will become more confident and tough even the younger defensemen will play a stronger more physical game to get the puck out of our zone .Plus hopefully keep holtz even tho his trade value is high he fits so well with the team and would be sad to see him go. 10/10 video waiting for the next
You can’t have consistent playoff appearances when you’re team has inconsistent production from inconsistent players – Jesper Bratt, Ondre Palat
Horrendous defense was never attempted to be addressed, instead it was over expressed – The Enture D Core
Injuries were a huge part of inconsistent play and production. But to be honest, the team is waaaay to soft – Jack Hughes, Timo Meier, Nico Hischier
Goaltending wins championships, and dicking around with the goalie situation was malfeasance and malpractice. Jack Allen really isn’t that great, nor is he that bad, and he’s good for pulling out miraculous saves while letting a softy here and there. Which is exactly what Vanicek was for us. But you can only perform so long like this before it takes it’s mental toll, which left Vanicek looking shell shocked and broken like a little girl who has one of “those” uncles. Schmid only had so much autism in his game, and this year it was no match for a league who figured out the Devil’s game.
Overall – the team experienced adversity, but Fitzgerald was a part of adding to that adversity in a negative way. He let a broken nose turn into 4 stage cancer.
Check out the hockey writers' analysis of the season. Really bolsters up what you say. Good read, though.
🎶All I want for Christmas~ (the off-season) is you~ (a star goalie)🎶
(And defense, and a new coaching staff, and Dougie to recover ☹️, and no injuries, and Tyler Toffoli back I really like him, and a better bottom six tho all hail Curtis Lazar, and NJ Brady Tkachuk I wanna see that toddler in our state)
There's always next season.
please turn the mic closer to you…audio is way low
Tom Fitzgerald failed. Lindy should still be the coach. Period.
One thing that needs to change is get rid of the analytics group. The GM and Coach need to use their own gut hockey sense to get players, play players and having the confidence of the team that they have the players back. I miss the time when coaches coached with their minds and guts.
dude, the mic audio quality is low. I can hardly hear you with it cranked up.
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If it was playoffs or bust, he would have gotten Zadorov soon after Dougie went down instead of playing with 2 rookies on the backend. Playoffs or bust? How about you use the 9 mil in LTIR!
I think we either trade for Markstrom or sign Brossoit as a UFA
As frustrating and disappointing as this season was, I'm amazed by the out-of-proportion anger levels, given any kind of bigger picture.
For example, I remember becoming a Devils fan in 1988 when Sean Burke carried them into the playoffs and through two rounds before they lost to Boston. They missed the playoffs the next year. Sound familiar? Huge disappointment?
It really didn't get much better after 89. Burke was average and never became a big time goalie. After missing the playoffs in 89 they lost in the first round the next 3 years. That's 5 mediocre years if you're counting.
And the GM for all of it was Lou Lamoriello. Same guy who won us three Cups. I wonder how many angry angry fans were calling for his head, starting midway through 1988-89.
Well, no more Devils so I'm watching the Wings. Seider has 200 hits and 200 blocks on the season. And counting!
Any money not spent is money in ownership pockets. Hamiltons salary got covered, so its like money in the bank for them when they didnt spend to upgrade roster after his injury. All they had to do was spend to the cap and it would have been a different story.
This video is playing on my iPad while I was putting away some pizza. You KNOW I DASHED over and am now typing furiously.
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SCHMEED?! You have GOT to be kidding me. I wasn’t watching the game because I was at my best friend’s house and I didn’t really care all that much but SURPRISE SURPRISE, SCHMEED is my biggest pet peeve in all of hockey. I cite YOUR video when I correct people on it because it makes me so mad. I was mad at Fitz before because the masses were (I’m a new fan trying to learn the ins and outs), but OH MY GOD, BYE BYE!!! Go to the REAL pits of hell Fitz. You spend so much time throwing Akira around like a piece of garbage and don’t even have the courtesy to say his name right. Unbelievable. Honestly, I’m glad I didn’t hear it because I would have had an absolute conniption.
Brodeur left in 2014 and this franchise hasn’t recovered at that position since. Fritz has to fix this shit! We can’t waste the talent on this team anymore!
I hope you are right that it’s just GM speak when Fitz said that Travis Green will get the chance to be interviewed. I really hope he doesn’t actually consider making Green the full time head coach next season. Green needs to be shown the door.
Fitzy is a clown
Bro would literally trade the farm and all future picks for 1 goalie. Kakko/Allen is worlds better than Vitek/Akira. Won't matter if Seigs and Marino are still on the team.
hey, not going to bother watching the interview but i've been wanting to vent on this. I'm happy the fanbase is starting to wake up and realize how horrible of a GM fitzgerald is and has been. First just consider the fact that Hughes and Heiscer were acquired by winning the draft lottery, so that means no decision had to be made realistically. Then look at the Meier trade and contract which has set us back generations. I could ramble on an on about this AHL roster but what i really care about is New Jersey and this poor hoodwinked lead astray fan base. Ive been a fan for 20 years and for the first time this season i refused to go to a game in boycott. I mean over the years this team never plays well for the home fans, and the tickets are ridiculously expensive for a horrible product on ice. And the food and concessions at the Prudential Center suck ass. 100$ for a ticket, 20$ for chicken nuggets and 15$ per beer just to lose 1-3 to the Lightning or whoever. Poor Ken Danekyo has had to commentate on this horrible team for 15 years it's shameful. If we don't make major changes we will lose Jack Hughes and rightfully so
Great review of the season! I agree with you 100 %. From Devils fan in Norway !
Everyone who knows hockey knows you build a team goalie out…
Only way to show the owners how fed up we are is hit them in their pockets . Us fans need to stop going to games !
Sorry to correct this, but in one thing Fitz is right.
as swiss i can confirm that the last name of Akira is Schmid with a soft i > spelling like a long "ee" and a soft "d".
how you spell it, it would be written in german like "Schmidt" or "Schmitt" and it is the more "Germany"-german version of it 🙂