The New Jersey Devils clinched a playoff berth last night with a hard fought 4-2 win in Montreal over the Canadiens.
Devils goals to Brian Rolston (19 empty net) Jamie Langenbrunner (18 power play),Patrik Elias (15 power play) and Dainius Zubrus (8).
The Devils will be in Philly tonight against the Flyers before getting a night off.
Hell Raisers
1) Montreal games are always nail biting affairs it seems,but last night the Devils seemed to control the game and then allow le' Habs to slide back into the battle on several occasions.
Maybe its the atmosphere in Montreal,but games there just have tons of charisma...
2) Loved the forechecking by the Devils last night.
The forecheck was very active and hampered Montreal for most of the evening,but especially in the last half of the first period and first half of the second.
3) The empty net goal by Brian Rolston was the 700th point of his career,but the most impressive part to me was the pass to Rolston by Ilya Kovalchuk.
Kovalchuk had the wide open goal,but instead passed to Rolston for the clincher.
Kovalchuk is beginning to end the "selfish" rap placed upon him and I am beginning to think the Devils have a better chance than most think of re-signing him...
4) Yesterday,I was about to write on the missing Vladimir Zharkov and Anssi Salmela,but Zharkov appeared last night and had an assist on the evening.
Zharkov had the proverbial fresh legs,but I thought he played very well for being inactive for so long.
5) Salmela was scratched again and likely will stay that way until injury hits.
Martin Skoula continues to play full time in Salmela's absence.....
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Photo Credit-Graham Hughes-AP Photo
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