Niclas Bergfors, Patrik Elias and Jamie Langenbrunner scored goals, and Martin Brodeur made 24 saves to help the New Jersey Devils beat the Ottawa Senators 3-1 on Wednesday night.
PREGAME Greetings from mild and dark Pittsburgh. It's in the mid-50s but dark. Stupid Daylight Savings Time. Stupid farmers. Anyway, the darkness is really going to cut back on our walks up from town for the next few months outside of the occasional daytime, weekend game. Here are a few shots however. From this morning, the Stanley Cup Champion banners on Centre Avenue have been replaced with these...
A preview of the Devils. When and where: 7:30 p.m., Mellon Arena. TV: FSN Pittsburgh, MSG Plus 2, NHL Network (United States). Record: 12-4-0, 24 points. The Devils are in second place in the Eastern Conference and first place in the Atlantic Division. Leading Scorer: Zach Parise, 19 points (8 goals, 11 assists). Last Game: 3-1 home win against the Ducks, last night . Parise and captain Jamie Langenbrunner...
Penguins -Sergei Gonchar and Evgeni Malkin ( above ) are kind of key to the Penguins' power play . -Is Mike Yeo the key to the Penguins' power play troubles ? -Bob Errey's epic piece on stick management from Thursday's game: ( Kudos to EN reader Kim Griffin for the heads up. ) -Ryan Bayda scored the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins' only goal in a 2-1 home loss to the Norfolk Admirals . John Curry made...
Things are falling into place for the New Jersey Devils. The team is winning despite injuries, the power play is warming up, Patrik Elias is back in the lineup and backup goalie Yann Danis is showing he can give Martin Brodeur a day off without causing problems.
NEWARK, N.J. | Everything is falling into place for the New Jersey Devils. The team is winning despite injuries, the power play is warming up, Patrik Elias is back in the lineup and backup goalie Yann Danis is showing he can give Martin Brodeur a day off without causing problems.
The big news today is that Alex Ovechkin is feeling 'a lot better'. But not well enough to suit up later, which means the must do without their best offensive player when they face the notoriously stingy Devils. Semyon Varlamov came off the ice before Jose Theodore at the morning skate and is expected to start in net at Prudential Center. Martin Brodeur will start for the Devils, who are also banged...
More photos » by David Zalubowski - ASSOCIATED PRESS Browse more photos » Here's someone finally doing the legwork on a stat once proposed by Tom Benjamin and something I'd been meaning to get around to eventually: quantifying the impact of players' injuries based on their salaries and time missed. LW3H from Springing Malik explains the stat as he calculated it last season: The concept...
Penguins -Dave Molinari's recap from last night's game . Remember how Chris Kunitz couldn't play with Sidney Crosby ( above )? -The Montreal Gazette's recap . The Canadiens' four-game winning streak was snapped. -The Associated Press' recap . Crosby has 36 goals in his past 55 games (including the postseason). - NHL.com's recap . Crosby must like Oct. 28. -Highlights courtesy of EN cotributor GhostWalker...
A preview of the Devils. When and where: 7:30 p.m., Mellon Arena. TV: FSN Pittsburgh, MSG Plus 2. Record: 5-3-0, 10 points. The Devils are in sixth place in the Eastern Conference and third place in the Atlantic Division. Leading Scorer: Zach Parise ( right ), 10 points (5 goals, 5 assists). Last Game: 4-2 road win against the Rangers, Thursday . Parise had two goals and an assist. Last Game against...
from Tom Gulitti of Fire & Ice, Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello said that Patrik Elias’ visit with Dr. William Meyers today in Philadelphia went well and he’s continuing to progess as expected after Elias’ Sept. 15 arthroscopic groin surgery. “Everything is fine,” Lamoriello said. “Everything is on target. It’s is normal progress as it has been.”...
By now, you know that The Sporting News magazine has named Pittsburgh as the Best Sports City of the year. I scanned the cover and the photo that accompanies the article for you. Apologies for the quality of the scans - both the magazine and the book (discussed below) are oversized, so the cover of the scanner didn't close completely, so there is some "interference" in the images as a result....
Penguins -How many games is Brent Johnson ( above, with Phoenix's Petr Prucha ) expected to play in ? -Jay McKee, who leads the league in blocked shots, has fit in quite well with the Penguins . -Consol Energy Center is expected to be finished by Aug. 1 . -Forward Andrew Lord has turned into a leader for the Wheeling Nailers . -Happy 60th birthday to former Penguins enforcer Dave "The Hammer"...
David Clarkson of the Devils and Brendan Witt of the Islanders are in mid-season form in a preseason game earlier this week. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) The 2009-2010 NHL season started last night, but our three local squads begin play tonight and tomorrow. How will the teams fare this season? Each team — the Devils, Rangers and Islanders — have very different expectations as the season starts....