The New Jersey Devils stormed out early to a two goal lead over visiting Detroit,but a funny thing happened on the way to the usual win when the early lead in accomplished-The Red Wings fought back and forced overtime and the shootout before Patrik Elias put the game 4-3 into the win column for NJ.
The Devils goals went to Jamie Langenbrunner (7),Rob Niedermayer (3) and a beautiful goal by the returning Johnny Oduya (1).
The Devils are playing Buffalo tomorrow night in our missed game for the month of December....
Hell Raisers
1) Johnny Oduya and Jay Pandolfo returned to action in the win and Oduya's goal was an end to end beauty that showed the occasional brilliance of Oduya on the offensive end when he so desires to display it....
2) The Devils sent Matt Halischuk to Lowell before the game.
The Devils kept Vladimit Zharkov,which surprised me a little,but the Russian has impressed since his recall and the Devils may have wanted to stay with the hotter hand.
Zharkov picked up an assist on Rob Niedermayer's putback goal off a Zharkov shot.
3) The Devils almost played three games in three periods-a terrific first,a decent to good second and an awful third in which Chris Osgood was rarely challenged in net.
I am hoping the sparse amount of shots thing doesn't become a trend...
4) But the best news of the third period was Marty Brodeur's play.
Brodeur allowed one goal in the period,but without some spectacular saves from Marty,this game could have been a loss of the meltdown variety.....
5) Colin White did play after being shaken up against the Islanders and played reasonably well.
Honestly,I thought all defensemen had decent games in this one.
Back later or tomorrow with some rants on the BCS and why I cannot stand Mack Brown!
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