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Stanley Cup Final Game 6 Preview: One Step Away From History – Why Not Us?
Stanley Cup Final – Game 6
Game Time: 8:00 PM
TV: NBCSN, CBC, RDS
Radio: WFAN 660AM
We’re still alive!! That’s right, the Devils have fought their way back and tonight they have the opportunity to tie the series and bring it back to New Jersey for a Game 7. I don’t want to get ahead of ourselves though. The team needs to focus on tonight’s game.
A hero has emerged in the last 2 games, one in Adam Henrique and the other, Captain Clutch, Zach Parise! Parise got the Devils on the board in Game 5 when Jonathan Quick came out to play the puck and Zach was in the right position at the right time and put it past him. After the Kings tied up the game, the Devils continued to play their game and Bryce Salvador got the Devils on the board again when he shot the puck from the point and it went in off of Slava Voynov.
Stanley Cup Final Game 4 Preview: Devils Need to Give Everything They’ve Got
Stanley Cup Final – Game 4
Game Time: 8:00 PM
TV: NBCSN, CBC, RDS
Radio: Bloomberg 1130 AM
Writing this preview for Game 4 is probably the hardest thing I’ve had to do this season. Where to even begin? Well let’s start with the obvious, the Devils are down 3-0 in the series and must win at least one game in order to avoid being swept for the first time in franchise history AND for us to be able to see one more game at The Rock this season. It’s not impossible to do, but it’s definitely one of those moments where the team needs to put everything on the line and play their hearts out.
Last game, the Devils came out like a house on fire, yet still couldn’t get anything past Jonathan Quick. The turning point came on a 5-on-3 power play where Quick stopped shot after shot to keep the Devils off the board. Finally, on one fluky play that lead to the first goal of the game, LA was on the board and never looked back, rolling to a 4-0 victory. The Devils need to throw everything they’ve got at Quick tonight, even if that includes the kitchen sink!
It looks like Coach DeBoer has decided to shake up the line-up a bit, benching Jacob Josefson and putting in veteran Petr Sykora. Will Sykora be able to propel this team to the next level and bring the series back home? We’ll see if he can give the team a little bit of boost when they step out onto the ice tonight.
Someone needs to emerge as the hero tonight; I don’t care who it is. All I’m asking is that the Devils put everything they’ve got into tonight’s game. They went from 4th Overall Draft pick and not making the playoffs, to the Stanley Cup Finals in one season. No matter what happens, this has been a great season and I am proud of what this team has accomplished, but I’m not quite ready for it to end just yet. I still have hope and I’m still believin’!
ONE SHIFT AT A TIME, ONE PERIOD AT A TIME, ONE GAME AT A TIME!!
LET’S GO DEVILS!!
Devils Projected Line-up:
Parise – Zajac – Kovalchuk
Sykora – Elias – Zubrus
Ponikarovsky – Henrique – Clarkson
Carter – Gionta – Bernier
Greene – Fayne
Salvador – Zidlicky
Volchenkov – Tallinder
Brodeur
Hedberg
Kings Projected Line-up:
Brown – Kopitar – Williams
Penner – Richards – Carter
King – Stoll – Lewis
Gagne – Fraser – Nolan
Scuderi – Doughty
Mitchell – Voynov
Martinez – Greene
Quick
Bernier
SCF Game 3 Recap: Devils blanked 4-0, down 3-0 in series
There really isn’t a whole lot to say after last night’s game for Devils fans. They continued to struggle offensively for many reasons, including the brilliant goaltending on Jonathan Quick for the Kings. Martin Brodeur wasn’t able to keep the game scoreless long enough to keep his team in it, and judging by Quick’s performance, Brodeur might have had to keep the game scoreless into an overtime or two if the Devils were going to have a shot at getting back in the series. Instead, Quick shut the Devils out, and the Kings doubled their goal total from the first two games in Game 3, cruising to a 4-0 victory. Read the rest of this entry
