Monday, May 7, 2012

Frustrating the Flyers in Game 4!

The New Jersey Devils fell behind two goals in the first period,yet rebounded by totally shutting down the Philadelphia offense and controlled the game thereafter in winning game four 4-2.
The Devils move to within one win of the Eastern Conference finals as they currently hold a three games to one lead in the series.
The series continues ( and with some luck ends) tomorrow night in Philadelphia for the fifth game of the series.
New Jersey received two goals from Dainius Zubrus and one each from Petr Sykora and Marek Zidlicky.

Hell Raisers

1) Give this one to the Devils defense as they shut the Flyers down and kept them whining all game long.
Marek Zidlicky had his best game of the playoffs with one exception and Bryce Salvador along with Mark Fayne were excellent inside the Devils zone...

2) The series is not over yet,the final win is often the hardest to get,but the Flyers look to be a frustrated team right now.
Claude Giroux and Scott Hartnell are crying every other minute about something or another and the team looks to be out of energy.
Could it be that the Flyers either A) took the Devils lightly after their impressive dispatching of the Penguins or B) the win over Pittsburgh took a ton out of them and they are not the same team???

3) The enigma that is Dainius Zubrus returned with the final two goals of the game.
I was most impressed with his work on the game winner as he stole a hopping puck from Daniel Briere and shoveled it down the ice while being taken down.
What a career that Zubrus could have had with consistency...

4) Martin Brodeur turned 40 yesterday,which was overdone,but here is a stat that should last a while.
Brodeur has now won a playoff game in his teens and his forties.
Match that one any time soon!

5) Liked the soccer style header by Ilya Kovalchuk to try to keep the puck in the Philly zone.
It failed,but showed moxie...

6) Finally,pre-game for one of those chummy Pierre McGuire interviews where he wraps up with something along the lines of " have some fun out there" with Petr Sykora.
Sykora listens to this and skates away with a "Thanks Bob" leaving McGuire in a rare state of not knowing what to say!

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