Rangers 3, Devils 2 (Shootout 4-3)

Dang.

The Devils, as I have said time and time again (but this will be the first time on my new blog!), are not a shootout team. I like shootouts for the most part, they're kinda cool. But the Devils are built to grind out an overtime victory. Brodeur, who can stop pretty much any breakaway you throw at him, isn't all that great handling shootouts. His stats aren't bad, but something about it, I don't think the stats reflect his uncomfortability. Anyways, all Jamie Langenbrunner, or Scott Gomez, or Travis Zajac needs to do is score a shootout goal. They all don't, however. Oh well. Like I say, the Devils at least get a point and maintain the division lead, you just hate to give the Rangers two points, especially in your own building. To be honest, though, the Devils were on their way to get 0 points and they probably deserved that point value, but they squeaked out a point and live to fight another day. Speaking of which, this was the first game in a while that Hollweg & Janssen were healthy but they didn't tangle. I'm sure they will, they have many more opportunities.

P.S. Listening to all the games on WFAN New York, as I do, I listen to Matt Loughlin and Tom Chorske. They're both in their first years, and for the most part they do a good job. Sometimes it seems that Loughlin gets more excited for goals scored by the other team. Anyway, tonight I had some beef with them. They called the game well and the overtime well, but the shootout was all jumbled up. They were talking about shots going off of people or hitting the post or whatnot, but failed to mention if the skater scored a goal or not. That is the most basic information, whether the puck went in the net or not, and they did not cover that very simple base and made it hard to listen to and hard to figure out what was going on.