#1 - Lundqvist
#2 - Stepan
#3 - Nash
HM: Girardi, McDonagh, Staal
Jagr was a force on the ice tonight. You have to respect his ability. He generated chance after chance, and I thought he was arguably the best forward from either team. He just can't find a way to beat Lundqvist.
I am still shaking my head in disbelief about St. Louis not being able to finish on the empty netter. You HAVE to close out that game in that situation. Instead, Elias deflects it away from the open net, the puck comes back down into our zone, and the Devils come THIS CLOSE to scoring a game tying goal. If they scored there I would have been screaming at my television in disbelief from St. Louis not closing out the game. We still need to get this guy going. He's been a complete dud thus far, despite playing some good games and making some good passes, he isn't producing like the elite forward we need him to be.
On that one PP in the third, Diaz had some outstanding puck movement. It was a breath of fresh air. Our PP didn't finish, but he looked great on it. I would definitely like to see more of him out there.
And that's the end of my analysis.