From scoring the first goal to connecting on the power play to Patrik Elias deciding to rip a shot instead of pass again, there were signs of life coming from the Madison Square. Despite having to play come from behind, and watching a lead evaporate on the Rangers power play (after a roughing [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2008
Building A Team
I only got to watch the last ten minutes of the Devils-Rangers playoff game last night. Parise was already sporting a toothless grin, the Devils had fumbled a double minor power play, and things were desperate. Until the last two minutes of the game, I was struck by a new [...]
@ The Generation Gap
We’re hosting two Israeli teenagers this week as part of the Diller Teen Fellow program between our North Jersey federation and our sister program in Rish L’Zion, Israel. They are articulate, funny, techno-savvy and they don’t laugh at my pidgin Hebrew. My command of food-oriented Hebrew and the morning operatives (coffee, [...]
Rock Your Dread
Perhaps this is what the Devils needed, a serious whooping at home to start the post-season. It’s happened before and the results have been fair. And the score doesn’t indicate the real balance in the game, but it does show a few breakdowns: Marty’s mishandling of the puck that led to the [...]
Playoff Predictions
Game One of the Hudson Hate-Fest starts in 15 minutes. Tom Guilitti’s Fire and Ice blog has some great commentary, including a stream of reader comments. Tom wants predictions, and I can’t resist being an armchair broadcaster, coach and screaming fan:
Brodeur is on top of his game. Between the spin-o-rama saves [...]
Beginnings and Endings in (Elias) Style
Bubba and I went to the Devils-Rangers game on Sunday, our first game together since January. Aside from the obvious – Devils beat the Rangers for the first and only time this season, Devils snap a 7-game losing streak against the Blue Meanies, Elias wins the game in fine style – there [...]
One Shining Moment, Every Season
My friend Claire always wonders what makes us love sports so much. By “us”, of course, she means guys who have severe Claire-attention deficit problems when a game of even minor interest is broadcast over television, radio, internet, or via grunts and hand signals nearby. I’ve thought about her question for close [...]
No Breaks, Just Ugly
I’m kind of baffled as to how the Devils can fail to get a single judgement call out of Toronto. First there was the goal in the Rangers game, which clearly went in off of a an arm. That’s a hand pass: the puck was advanced (intentionally or not), and it [...]
