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John Tortorella joked Tuesday that he’ll have to “pray” to get his top-six forwards going offensively, but the truth is the Devils have already brought the Rangers to their knees in these Eastern Conference finals.
The series may be tied 2-2, but Game 5 on Wednesday night at the Garden is a must-win for the tired, never-say-die Blueshirts.
It’s not because they aren’t good enough to win two straight playoff games. They are. The Rangers willed their way to victory in Games 6 and 7 of the first round to recover against the eighth-seeded Senators.
It’s because their current opponent, the sixth-seeded Devils, are more physical and more capable of stamping out a last-ditch Rangers effort than upstart Ottawa or...
Pete DeBoer shook up the lines for the Devils, changed their approach to get more shots in on goal in Game 2 and, most importantly, made sure they kept their composure down a goal late in the second period to a team that... more »
He began his description of the moment the Rangers came unglued with the lament of every innocent bystander in the history of mankind: “I was just minding my own business,” Martin Brodeur said — which, in ... more »
Devils-Rangers has a chance to be one of those epic playoff series fans will talk about forever. If only the Rangers didn’t have such an enormous advantage in goaltending. Hey, don’t point the pitchfork at me. This was the... more »
This whole thing, all the rancor and resentment you get now from John Tortorella vs. Peter DeBoer, really has its roots in a 1982 migration, when the Devils moved from Colorado to Jersey and became the fiscally responsible... more »
Zach Parise, the Devils’ forward and captain, is not exactly a model of composure on the ice. He chases after rolling pucks as if they just fell out of his wallet, and he raps at rebounds so hard that he looks as if he... more »
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