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Devils Look to Even Series

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.
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Rangers Win Game 1

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.
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Eastern Conference Finals Set

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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NBA Playoffs

There wasn’t much going on in the sports world last night outside of NBA playoff games. I happened to catch the end of both the Celtics-Hawks and 76ers-Bulls games. They both finished basically the same way where players missed free throws costing their teams games. For the Hawks, Al Horford had a chance to tie the game with less than three seconds left but missed the first one. It was too bad because Horford had a really good 4th quarter.

Omer Osik missed two free throws for the Bulls with 10 seconds remaining and on the rebound Andre Iguodala got fouled. Iguodala made both his free throws and the # 1 seed Chicago Bulls without Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah were upset by the # 8 seed 76ers. The 76ers will now play the Celtics in the next round and the Miami Heat will play the Indiana Pacers


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Devils Advance to Finals

It was a pretty bad night for fans of the Philadelphia teams. The Flyers were eliminated from the NHL playoffs by the Devils, the Phillies blew a lead for the second consecutive day and lost to the Mets and the 76ers lost to the Bulls in game five of their NBA playoff series.

The Devils didn’t play their best game of the series but won 3-1 on goals by Bryce Salvador, David Clarkson and Ilya Kovalchuk. The Flyers like they have all series got the first goal of the game by Max Talbot. The Devils scored two minutes later on Salvador’s goal. The goal by Clarkson could have been the back breaker for the Flyers. Goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov had the puck and tried to send it into the corner but it hit Clarkson’s stick and went into the net. The goal seemed to take all of the energy away from the Flyers


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Finish the Flyers

The Devils can advance to the Eastern Conference Finals with a win tonight over the Flyers in Philadelphia. The Devils haven’t reached the finals since 2003 which was the last time they won the Stanley Cup Finals. The Flyers will be without their best player Claude Giroux who was suspended for one game due to his hit on Dainius Zubrus late in the second period of game four.

The Devils don’t need to do anything differently tonight; all they need to do is play the same way they have every other game. As long as they don’t take penalties they should be fine. The Devils have dominated the Flyers with the forecheck all series and need to stay out of the penalty box


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Devils Dominance

The Devils are one game away from reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2003 after dominating the Flyers last night. The score was only 4-2 but it didn’t feel that close. The Devils and Flyers have now played four games and the Flyers still haven’t managed to figure out the Devils forecheck.

The Flyers took a 2-0 lead last night on a power play goal and a shorthanded goal but the Devils roared right back on a power play goal by Petr Sykora and the first playoff goal for Marek Zidlicky to even up the game in the first period


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Martin Brodeur's Birthday

Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals begins in about 45 minutes with the Devils leading the series 2 game to 1. The Devils will look to put a stranglehold on the series and it’s also Martin Brodeur’s 40th birthday. What better present could he give himself other than a Devils victory?

I’m expecting a Flyer team to play desperate tonight as no team wants to go down 3-1 in a series. Ryan Carter is out of the lineup tonight so Tim Sestito will step in and make his playoff debut. The fourth line has been playing very well in the postseason so let’s hope Sestito continues the good fortune of the line


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Mets Lose Again

The Mets are dreadful again blowing a lead last night to the Arizona Diamondbacks and losing the game 5-4. It’s like groundhog’s day watching this team the last five or six seasons. They have no clutch hitting especially in the middle of the lineup, the bullpen is awful, the defense is brutal and the starters are usually suspect. Dillon Gee actually pitched very well last night but only went six innings.

We need guys that go eight or nine innings which I know is extremely unlikely these days. The bullpen is worn out already from the amount of innings they have to pitch every night. I’ve never seen a team too where every time a mistake occurs in an inning the other team scores. Last night Ike Davis makes an error and everything just falls to pieces. This team is just not good enough to win games where mistakes occur. They have to play perfect baseball to win games which is sad


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Devils Win in OT

Another overtime hockey game led to the Devils taking a 2-1 lead in their series with the Philadelphia Flyers last night. Alexei Ponikarovsky banged home his own rebound past Ilya Bryzgalov last night to give the Devils a 4-3 victory. Game four will be played Sunday night in New Jersey.

The Flyers got on the board first with a goal by Brayden Schenn but that seemed to energize the Devils. Patrik Elias scored a power play goal about six minutes later and Ilya Kovalchuk scored 20 seconds after Elias to give the Devils a 2-1 lead after the first period. The Devils controlled most of the period after the Flyers scored. The Flyers are still having trouble with the Devils forecheck


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