Game two featured the debut of quite a few new faces for New Jersey. The Islanders jumped out to a 4-1 lead after one period, but the Devils hung tough in the 5-3 loss.
Some notes and observations from the game:
Game two featured the debut of quite a few new faces for New Jersey. The Islanders jumped out to a 4-1 lead after one period, but the Devils hung tough in the 5-3 loss.
Some notes and observations from the game:
The Devils did not.
New Jersey ended its disappointing campaign with a flat, uninspired effort in a 4-0 loss to New York at Madison Square Garden.
"We didn?t deserve to win. Wer didn?t play well enough to win," coach Pete DeBoer said after the game. " ... You get what you deserve in this game. We had some opportunities to win, but we didn?t play well enough to earn two points."
The Devils know they made too many mistakes to deserve two points Thursday.
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Parise (3)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Bernier (2)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- None
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Weiss (1)
First Period- Gilroy (3) and Kovalchuk (36)
Second Period- O'Brien (3) and Sykora (21)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Elias (26) and Moulson (35)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Sykora (18)
First Period- Kunitz (23) and Parise (30) and Staal (23)
Second Period- Dupuis (23)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- None
First Period- Dubinsky (8)
Second Period- Girardi (5) and Elias (25) and Zuccarello (2) and Sykora (17)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- None
Scoring Summary:
First Period- None
First Period- None
Second Period- None
Scoring Summary:
First Period- None
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Parise (25) and Parise (26) and Zubrus (16)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Hagelin (11)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Ponikarovsky (12)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Sykora (14) and Clarkson (23) and Connolly (9)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Parise (22)
First Period- None
Second Period- Henrique (15) and Ponikarovsky (10) and Perry (29)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Kovalchuk (23)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Bernier (1) and Bergenheim (11)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Parise (21) and Stewart (11)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Clarkson (21)
First Period- Kovalchuk (22) and Volchenkov (1)
Second Period- Zubrus (15) and Niskanen (3) and Parise (20)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Foster (3) and Kovalchuk (21) and Zubrus (14)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Desharnais (10) and Kostitsyn (12) and Parise (17)
First Period- Stralman (2)
Second Period- Parise (16)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Leopold (8)
First Period- None
Second Period- Read (15) and Hartnell (21) and Ponikarovsky (8)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Sykora (12)
First Period- Kovalchuk (18)
Second Period- Sykora (11) and Clarkson (16) and Kovalchuk (19)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- Ladd ?(15)
Scoring Summary:
First Period- None
First Period- Bouwmeester (2) and Sarich (1) and Glencross (18) and Brodie (2)
Second Period- Kovalchuk (16) and Glencross (19) and Henrique (13)
First Period- Malkin (16)
Second Period- Henrique (12) and Kovalchuk (15)
First Period- Henrique (11) and Samuelsson (2)
Second Period- Elias (14) and Barch (1)
First Period- None
Second Period- Zubrus (11) and Clarkson (14)
First Period- Kovalchuk (12) and Clarkson (13)
Second Period- None
First Period- Sykora (9)
Second Period- Sykora (10) and Parise (12) and Vanek (18)
First Period- Sutter (7)
Second Period- Ruutu (13) and Stewart (5)
First Period- None
Second Period- Kovalchuk (11) and Urbom (1) and Henrique (9)
First Period- Zajac (1)
Second Period- Anisimov (7)
Before tonight's match against the Dallas Stars the Devils honored one of the few players to have played on all three Devils Stanley Cup champion teams. Scott Niedermayer's number 27 joins Scott Stevens and Ken Daneyko in the rafters of the Prudential Center. It was a very classy ceremony for a classy player. Out of all the players that played in the NHL, Scott Niedermayer is the only player to ever win all 6 major hockey championships. The guy is a winner and congratulations Scott Niedermayer.
The 1st period started off very physical for captain Zach Parise.??I personally put myself in a vulnerable position when Ott hit me. So, I take that responsibility. That was my fault,? Parise said. But the physical Stars still could not stop the top line of Parise-Henrique-Kovalchuk. Everyone on that line would contribute at least a goal.
Scoring Summary:First Period- Versteeg (14)
Second Period- ?Versteeg (15) and Elias (10)
Scoring Summary:First Period- Sykora (6) and Zubrus (9) and Downie (4) and Jones (1)
Second Period- ?Parise (9) and Kovalchuk (9) and Henrique (7)