The New Jersey Devils needed a big win after a flat outing in Edmonton and they got it with a 6-3 home win over their rivals from New York.
The teams exchanged the first six goals of the game before the Devils scored the finals three goals of the contest.
Devils goals to Zach Parise (31 Power play), Travis Zajac (21),Brian Rolston (18),Jamie Langenbrunner (16),Rob Niedermayer (8) and Bryce Salvaodr (4).
The Devils will host Pittsburgh tomorrow night.
Hell Raisers
1) Fun game to watch,especially when you consider that each teams came into the game suffering offensive problems.
The game was not always end to end hockey,but certainly aggressive offensive hockey.
2) The Rangers yanked Henrik Lunquist after the Devils 5th goal.I am not arguing that,but two of his five were redirected by the Ranger defender and none were especially bad goals.
That said,his tantrum on the bench didn't win him many fans.
3) Save of the game was Marty's Brodeur's diving stick hinge of save of Olli Jokinen.
Tremendous!
4) Four players with both a goal and an assist is always a good thing,but even without a goal,I thought Ilya Kovalchuk played well.
Maybe,it is just me,but Kovalchuk seems to be adjusting each time that I see him play.
5) The downside?
Two goals that were a fault of the defense and not Marty Brodeur.
The worst was the second period goal that saw Mark Fraser just throw the puck in front of the net and watched the Rangers score.
Bad play and Fraser sat the rest of the evening.
It would not surprise me to Anssi Salmela back for the Penguin game and Fraser scratched.
6) And finally,Pierre Luc LeBlond dropping the mitts against veteran tough guy Jody Shelley showed that LeBlond wants the enforcer role of Andrew Peters.
I thought LeBlond acquitted himself quite well against Shelley.
Will try to be back later with something else,everytime I think I will have time to do some fun posts,the football gets pulled away by Lucy!
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