The defenses were sharp last night in Madison Square Garden as the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers hooked up for Game 2 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference finals. But the Devils were the sharper of the two and they got the big goal when then they needed it to tie up the series at a game apiece with a 3-2 win last night.
It took two periods for the action to start, but the New York Rangers broke through first in the third period of Game 1 in the NHL’s Eastern Conference Finals, scoring early in the third to break a scoreless tie, in the middle of the period to give themselves a strong cushion and at the […]
The New York Rangers and Washington Capitals were each tempting fate on Saturday night on Madison Square Garden, with each team playing its second Game 7 in as many rounds. The game was a proto-typical seventh game, with defense and goaltending paramount, but the Rangers won enough little battles to produce a 2-1 win that sends them to the Eastern Conference finals starting Monday against New Jersey.
The New Jersey Devils became the third team to punch their ticket to the conference finals in the NHL playoffs and the first one to move forward in the East. In Tuesday’s lone playoff game, the Devils beat Philadelphia on the road 3-1 to clinch the series in five games. Philadelphia played without center Claude […]