The wrong individual was fired... as you can see Fitzgerald is the one that should have been fired, is inactivities to add a keeper was the key factor... and look at his comments, they don't even make sense... fire Fitzgerald he is not doing his job, it's quite obvious... wtf man...
The team came out to play looking absolutely defeated for months now. Zero effort, terrible systems. I'm a Devils and a Lindy fan but this was long overdue
Hey glad were on the same page. ppl are defending fitzy when he was part of issues, look at his offseason do nothing. He really thought have little experience on the back end was a good idea like i said Florida stacked up on vet D. Also Hamilton being hurt again for the year, mean we need a safety blanket cuz he is not to be trusted. But those guys and everyone in the hockey world wont blame fitzy cuz there scared which is sad
All you people saying Ruff should have not been fired don’t watch Devil Hockey games. Ruff never had the team ready to play at the drop of the puck. You cannot give up the first goal 25 times and expect to win games. The goaltending is terrible but you can’t play a rookie goalie 10 games in a row. He has questionable line up choices and plays Smith consistently even though he stinks. Ruff should have been fired 2 to 3 months ago but Fitz has a hard time firing coaches.
Making sense?? He was awful!! Last year was all Andrew Burnett!!! It the only real factor that has CHANCED!! This man first year behind the bench we won 19 games!! We fired our coaches who got us 25 awful win and he came in and fixed us good with NINETEEN WINS!!! NO this man was never a winner ask the rangers!!! He was past his prime alone time ago!! NJD need new eyes on these men and new voices all around!!!
The fact that Tom Fitzgerald is so obviously distraught that he had to fire Ruff shows that he doesn't have the stones to do this job. Fitzgerald let his personal emotions come before the good of the team and the good of the hard working fans, who spent good money...often sacrificing in other areas of their lives to pay to see a sub-standard product...because Fitzgerald didn't want to hurt the coaches (or the goaltenders) feelings. DO YOUR JOB! What about OUR feelings....watching this dog and pony show you are putting on the ice. You want to charge me $10 a game to watch this on MSG? F U.
plz talk about the terrible job Fitzy has done this year. Ill start, Did nothing in the off season. Refused to get a goalie like stolarz or Ned, thought Miller was enough experience on the backend, but look what florida did they stacked up on D but Hamilton is no longer trust dude has been out for the season twice now and he really thought oh inexperience Dcore very good, nope he was wrong again. Waited to long to fire Lindy and refused to make a goalie trade early when they were HORRIBLE. Plz talk about Fitzy being clueless in the 23-24 season.
Jersey is just easy to play against, and they let go the guys who were harder to play against in Tatar, Wood, and Graves and replaced those guys with young players who have offensive upside but who aren't strong two way... made the team let in easy goals routinely and a team that lets in routine easy goals is inevitably going to collapse mid season
