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[Morreale]_I don’t view it as a ‘wasted opportunity.’ Wasted might have been if they were swept by the Rangers. NJ isn’t and will not be the 1st team to experience heartache on the way to gaining a better appreciation to where they actually need to be to win this thing. It’s not easy.

  • May 10, 2023


[Morreale]_I don’t view it as a ‘wasted opportunity.’ Wasted might have been if they were swept by the Rangers. NJ isn’t and will not be the 1st team to experience heartache on the way to gaining a better appreciation to where they actually need to be to win this thing. It’s not easy.

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  1. Follow-up tweet from Mike on the same issue:

    [Again. All the things you mention there are things that need to be learned in a best-of-7 series. You need to go through it, need to experience it. In the reg. season, you’re not playing the same team 4x in a row (minimum), so knowing how to deal w/ momentum swings is real.](https://twitter.com/mikemorrealeNHL/status/1656275195122839559)

  2. Wasted opportunity would not be being swept by the NYR, it would have been being overconfident as a result of youth & inexperience from winning Games 3,4,5, blowing a 3-2 series lead and losing a game 7 at home. THAT would have been a wasted opportunity.

  3. I agree with the sentiment. If we lose, it will sting less had we not had such awful games. It’s a miracle we made it out of the first round with the amount of lopsided beatings we took. Went into the second round just to do it all over again with less success.

  4. I don’t love how we’re losing these games but I love the fact that we’re in the second round. Im pretty confident in our front office and excited for our window.

  5. Also we have learned that a goalie is still needed and that bratt should be like 6 million

  6. This is believable but also really convenient to say when losing. Is giving up after the first 15 minutes last night progress?

  7. this is wasted opportunity, i highly doubt they will get another team in the 2nd round that is missing their top 3 scorers on the IR

  8. I count 13 RFA/UFA contracts on CapFriendly. Thanks to the 11 postseason games already played, we have a clearer understanding of who will contribute to the playoffs and who fell flat. Between Haula, McLeod, and Severson showing up while Tatar and Graves didn’t, we have a clear understanding of what we need to do to go harder, better, faster, and stronger next year.

  9. I don’t think they can afford Severson. I think it will be crucial to find someone who can play responsible top 4-ish minutes with Luke. Unless it’s Siegs and Bahl plays with Hamilton next year.

  10. I agree in general but getting laughed out of every game we lose is frustrating to watch

  11. It’s a young team. I know they’ve underperformed this series but just like 2019 Tampa didn’t panic after being swept in the first round then neither should we.

  12. It’s one thing to lose. It’s an entirely different thing to be manhandled in every single one of those losses. That goes beyond just an “experience” thing.

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