GDT: Devils @ Rangers - 7:00 PM - MSG
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billingtons ghost
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Dillon, Kovacevic, healthy Hamilton, Pesce, mature Luke..
Forwards playing D.
The last ten minutes or so were garbage with icings against a good faceoff team and Markstrom making tougher saves than he should have needed to. Lots of guys getting caught out on the ice. We won't last in the playoffs like that.
But damn. How about this team. Thanks for crushing them.
It was Garden of Dreams night too. Rags normally put their best effort in for the kids.
I don’t think they were sloppy. They got up 2-0 early, put it cruise control 5v5 and put the game away on the PP.
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I think a team would have to win a game 5 to 0 and outshoot the opposition 40 to 15 for them to realistically say "we played a borderline perfect game". The Devils played very well tonight as a team and got big performances from their top players. Hischier and Meier had some good moments as well without getting on the scoresheet. They pretty much cruised to victory tonight after Markstrom robbed Zinbinejad in the 2nd period.
They certainly earned the 3 days of rest after all those shots they blocked tonight.
glenwo2
JESPER BRATWURST
Was he in the lineup?
Wasn't he sent down to the minors (or whatever they're called)?
billingtons ghost
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^this.
I thought the first period was fantastic. Playing playoff level hockey across the board.
As soon as we got up more than two goals, it all loosened up and we had alot of dangerous slop we've seen before with guys not getting the puck out and trying to make perfect fancy passes and ALLLL the penalties.
If Markstrom isn't fantastic, and if Rags weren't bad, game could've been tied going into the third.
Great stuff but it would've been terrific if they had locked it down like St Louis and not given them a sniff.
Best 40 shot game against we've played, but yikes.
Rangers mainly looked dangerous on PP. They had some moments at even strength but Devils largely controlled play when they weren’t taking penalties.
Moneypuck expected goals:
NJ 3.2 NYR 2 - 5 v 5
NJ 1.7 - NYR 2.4 - All other situations
Moneypuck expected goals:
NJ 3.2 NYR 2 - 5 v 5
NJ 1.7 - NYR 2.4 - All other situations
Whaddagoal
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I think thats what we saw, we were in cruise control by 3-0, 4-0 and went into a more defensive game.
Sure Keefe is not as content as the fans on the full product of how we kinda turtled in and let Markstrom get peppered for a third of the game.
Fact though we got the early and big lead and never really looked back
Hard to measure the real outcome because the game was lopsided pretty early on. Will see if the next rivalry game against them is any different.
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I personally think the Rangers team quit on their management due to the antics this off season. I bet Lavi will quit or get fired. The NYR core today put no energy into this rivalry game tonight. No pushback physically and they didn't give a damn they were down so, at least that what it looked like. Very very different from last 2 seasons where the games were a huge energy sink for both sides.
billingtons ghost
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Penalties, icings, failed clears, stupid passes, kovy/Siegs got stranded out there for 2+ minutes a few times. That wasn't clean.
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I was pretty annoyed that Jack tried to pull this one off but not Steve Valiquette annoyed lol
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Bratt has goal, 3 assists, Devils cruise past Rangers | NHL.com
J. Hughes gets 3 points, Markstrom makes 39 saves for New Jersey; New York has lost 6 of 7
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NEW YORK -- Jacob Markstrom made 39 saves, Jack Hughes and Jesper Bratt combined for seven points, and the New Jersey Devils defeated the New York Rangers 5-1 at Madison Square Garden on Monday.
Bratt, playing his 499th NHL game, had a goal and three assists, and Hughes had two goals and an assist. Dougie Hamilton had a goal and an assist, and Luke Hughes had two assists for the Devils (17-9-2), who scored five goals for the third straight game and fourth in five.
Jack Hughes and Bratt each have points in three consecutive games; Hughes with eight points (three goals, five assists) and Bratt with seven (two goals, five assists).
Chris Kreider scored a power-play goal and Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves for the Rangers (13-10-1). New York has lost six of seven games, all in regulation.
Bratt opened the scoring by keeping the puck on a 2-on-1 with Jack Hughes and scoring five-hole on Shesterkin at 1:27 of the first period to give New Jersey a 1-0 lead.
Dawson Mercer made it 2-0 at 7:10, scoring with a far-side shot from the right face-off circle that went in off the inside of Shesterkin's right pad.
The Devils killed a penalty on Hamilton at 9:16 by blocking four shots in a 30-second span after Brett Pesce's stick broke. Pesce had two blocks and Markstrom finished it with a save on Kreider on a redirect from the left post. Bratt had a short-handed breakaway earlier in the kill.
Hamilton extended the lead to 3-0 with a 5-on-3 power-play goal at 9:04 of the second period. He scored with a one-timer from the left circle off a pass from Jack Hughes with two seconds left on the 5-on-3.
Hughes scored at 12:38, making it 4-0 with a spinning shot off a rebound of his brother Luke's shot from the left point.
Kreider's power-play goal at 13:29 made it 4-1, but Jack Hughes scored on a 4-on-3 power play at 18:56 to extend New Jersey's lead to 5-1.
Rangers only looked dangerous during their PP and the few mins after their PP. Thats their bread and butter.
Devils were in control other than that.
But I agree, lots of things to work on. But the commitment shown tonight to do whatever it takes to win is encouraging. Those blocked shots, selling out late in shifts to get the puck put of the zone. Good team building shit.
Better Call Sal
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Other than him not scoring, what is there to be annoyed about? This feels so much like "Old man yells at cloud."
njdevils1982
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but what did tortorella think of it?
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There’s nothing wrong with having a rational evaluation of the team’s performance.
The people who get annoyed about an honest, level headed discourse after a win are the same ones acting like the sky is falling when we lose to the Blues and Sharks.
You can acknowledge and evaluate the good and bad of each performance regardless of the end result. It doesn’t mean anyone is unhappy or negative.
DerekDevils30
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The mentality is what it’s all about. Pesce makes that crazy block and it becomes contagious. The other guys on the ice that PK can’t let him down after that. Bratt gets a block. Haula gets a block. Pesce gets another. All of this with Pesce breaking his stick. While there is still stuff to work on there’s no doubt these guys are bonding and willing to go above and beyond. That’s huge. Keefe will help them work out the kinks
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It’s especially silly because they’ve both publicly praised each other a number of times.
Better Call Sal
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But actually it was never what you’d call a “close game.” They were piling up a lot of shots but it felt like we were controlling it from the drop of the puck.
I would have loved to see us just keep skating them into oblivion as we did in the first and get the knockout earlier than we got it. You shouldn’t try to sit on a 2 goal first period lead, but it’s not a situation we’ve been in all that much. Their piling up the shots on us reflected that.
Hamilton gifting them that 2 man short handed breakaway was a hairy moment. But when they blew that and Dougie scores on the 5 on 3 you knew the game was over.
Stan Fischler saying that the 3 goal lead is the worst lead in hockey notwithstanding.
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