The New Jersey Devils allowed the first goal of the game in Pittsburgh,but would not allow another one as the Devils earned a 3-1 win in Pittsburgh behind Martin Brodeur's 41 saves.Adam Henrique tied the game in the second period with a shorthanded goal (12 shorthanded) and Ilya Kovachuk's bullet a few minutes later (15) was the game winner.
Dainus Zubrus would complete the scoring in the third period (12 power play).
New Jersey will be in Calgary on Tuesday night in the first of their three games in Western Canada.
Hell Raisers
1) Tremendous game by Martin Brodeur in bouncing back from a down effort against Boston in his last start.
Brodeur's play basically won this game for the Devils,especially with his first period play.
2) Brodeur made 12 first period saves with what seemed to be a high number of difficult saves to keep New Jersey from being blown out early.
The Devils only put three shots on Marc-Andre Fleury in the first and the game could have been over early if not for Brodeur.
3) Adam Henrique's shorthanded goal was the ninth shorthanded goal of the season by the Devils,which leads the league.
Now,if the team could just quit allowing shorthanded goals....
4) Fire and Ice adds this note on Martin Brodeur's win in the new Pittsburgh arena.
Brodeur has now won games in 49 different arenas in his career.
Staggering stuff.
5) The Devils placed Anton Volchenkov on the IR and called up Nick Palmeiri from Albany.
Somewhat surprised that the team waited so long to move Volchenkov to the IR,but I suppose the injury just lingered longer than expected..
6) The Devils also are close to sending Jacob Josefson to Albany for some rehab time.
Josefson is recovered from a broken clavicle suffered earlier in the season...
7) Palmeiri played in the win and replaced a scratched Cam Janssen.
As I stand by from yesterday's post,the Devils cannot afford to dress both Janssen and Eric Boulton...
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