The New Jersey Devils played a less than inspired game from offense to defense and went five players deep in the shootout until Travis Zajac scored the game winner and allowed New Jersey to escape with a not full deserved 2-1 win at the Rock over the Chicago Blackhawks.Petr Sykora scored the only Devils goal (18 power play) in regulation play.
New Jersey will host Tampa Bay on Thursday.
Hell Raisers
1) Martin Brodeur should get extra credit for the victory because it was almost totally due to his play.
Brodeur made 37 saves,many of them terrific and considering the shot margin against the Devils,Brodeur seemed to be constantly making great saves....
2) New Jersey was outshot 38-22 and only put eight shots on goal combined against Corey Crawford in the final two periods.
Those numbers will not be getting the goal done in the playoffs.
3) Adam Larsson was a healthy scratch and Peter Harrold was recalled from Albany to take his place.
Harrold is nothing to be excited about,but I do like the fact that the Devils are not happy with the recent play of Larsson and are attempting to send a message to Larsson that he needs to pick the pace up a bit....
4) I told Rachel after the David Clarkson miss that Travis Zajac might be the next shooter after she asked.
I had no concrete reasoning for so,just thought that after Toronto's shootout success with players with limited shootout time this season,that Peter DeBoer might give the returning Zajac a try.
5) The power play was not sharp in their three tries and only the Sykora goal with seconds remaining in the man advantage made the numbers looks better than they were.
The Devils were generally ineffective with the exception of Sykora's redirection of an Adam Henrique shot....
Back later with the Cavaliers in Philly and maybe a post that I have been working over the last day or so,that I might finish from work tomorrow...
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