Third period bites Devils in loss to Rangers

The New Jersey Devils played a solid two periods before defensive breakdowns in the third period allowed the New York Rangers to score two goals that were followed by an empty net tally in a 4-1 Rangers triumph.
Travis Zajac scored the first goal of the game (1) in the first period for the only Devils goal.
New Jersey returns to the ice on Friday against Washington...

Hell Raisers

1) The Devils had their chances against Henrik Lundqvist,but except for Zajac were unable to slam the door.
Adam Henrique was stopped with the pads on one 2 on 1 chance and David Clarkson fired high on another...

2) Patrik Elias missed the game with the flu and I am sure that played a part in the loss.
Elias had been playing well recently and his loss was a shot to the lineup offensively...

3) Defensive breakdowns on two Rangers goals.
Kurtis Foster barely moved against Artem Anisimov's goal,who was barely impeded by Zach Parise on the backcheck and Karl Hagelin on yet another shorthanded goal was the result of another Ilya Kovalchuk puckhandling miscue on the power play.

4) Martin Brodeur might have had an excuse on the Anisimov goals,but was badly beaten on goals by Marian Gaborik and Karl Hagelin.
Both of those two were stoppable shots....

5) Ten shorthanded goals allowed this season.
Awful....

6) Adam Larsson will miss the next two games to return to Sweden for the funeral of his grandmother.
The Devils have not announced a replacement on the roster,but it could be Nick Palmieri continuing his up and down season between New Jersey and Albany...

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