The Devils will try to even up their series with the Rangers tonight at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers blanked them in game one on Monday night. The game tonight will be played at 8:00 pm ET.
The biggest key to a potential Devils victory tonight will be the ability to get pucks pass the Rangers defense and into Henrik Lundqvist as the team blocked 26 shots the other night. It seems as though Peter DeBoer is switching up the lines for tonight.
As per the Star Ledger, Zach Parise was back on a line with Travis Zajac and Ilya Kovalchuk. The second line now features Petr Sykora, Patrik Elias and Dainius Zubrus. Rookie defenseman Adam Larsson will not be in the lineup tonight as Peter Harrold takes his place.
The Rangers topped the Devils last night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals by a score of 3-0. The Rangers were unbelievable in blocking shots as they posted 26 in front of Henrik Lundqvist who stopped all 21 shots that got through his defense. Game 2 is tomorrow night at MSG.
The story of the game was the Rangers defense that showed no signs of being fatigued after their seven game series ended Saturday night. This was the type of game where you felt whoever scored first might win. The Devils won all four games last round against the Flyers when they gave up the first goal.
The Rangers got the first goal of the game 53 seconds into the third period on a blast out by the blue line by Dan Girardi. The Rangers would put the game away on a power play goal by rookie Chris Kreider with eight minutes left to go. Artem Anisimov scored an empty net goal with around one minute thirty seconds left to finish the scoring.
The Devils are going to need to find a way to navigate around the aggressive shot blocking of the Rangers defense to get back into the series.
The Eastern Conference Finals are now set after the New York Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals 2-1 in Game 7 last night. The Rangers will host the New Jersey Devils in Game 1 on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. The teams split the regular season series with each team winning three games.
The Devils dismantled the Flyers in the last round winning in five games, the last being last Wednesday. The Rangers have played 14 games so far in the postseason going 8-6. If you watch any of the Rangers games you know the games will be tight and low scoring as they put everything they have into every shift.
Local fans will really enjoy this series as the Rangers are one of the Devils biggest rivals especially when it comes to the fan base. The teams played one of the best postseason series of all time back in 1994 when the Rangers defeated the Devils in seven games leading to their Stanley Cup. The Rangers will probably be the favorites as they are the highest ranked seed still left in the playoffs.
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