Devils deflect Montreal!

The New Jersey Devils used deflected shots in the goal by Zach Parise (22) and David Clarkson (22) to give the Devils all the goals that they needed in a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens in Quebec.
Each goal came late in the first two periods and with Martin Brodeur continuing his hot run of late,was more than enough for the win.
Matt Taormina scored his first goal of the season in the third period to salt the game away.
The Devils passed Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and moved into fourth place in the division standings with the win.
New Jersey visits Toronto tomorrow night at 7:00..

Hell Raisers

1) Another strong game for Martin Brodeur,but besides playing well in his hometown of Montreal,Brodeur had even more incentive as his dad,the former team photographer for the Canadiens,recently underwent brain surgery.
Some players use personal issues as fuel and some let it affect their game negatively,it appears Brodeur is the former....

2) Anton Volchenkov took a puck in the mouth in the first period that removed him from the game after being prone on the ice for a few minutes.
Volchenkov returned for the final two periods,puffed up mouth and all.
Blocking shots is a huge part of Volchenkov's game and I suppose it comes with that territory,but that has to hurt!!!

3) I always like to write about crashing the net and all three goals resulted as part of that duty.
The Parise and Clarkson goals came off deflected shots and Steve Bernier did a great job of getting in Carey Price's vision so that Price could not see the Matt Taormina goal-great work in that area in the win....

4) Kurtis Foster missed the game with illness and Peter Harrold was recalled from Albany and did not play badly.
The Devils are battered on the blue line and  are still getting by,could things be better once the injured players return???

5) The game was called kinda loose with just three penalties called between the two teams.A couple of could have been called,especially a Montreal slewfoot on Ilya Kovalchuk in the second,but I would rather let them play for the entire game than loose for two periods and then tight for one.

I am very tired from working so much and still have to work tonight,so my intentions are to do a two game Cavalier recap later tonight,but if not-it will be tomorrow's lead.
If I get to it tonight,I'll do a feature story tomorrow..

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