Devils 4, Penguins 3 (SO)

Goals:
First Period: Evgeni Malkin, Penguins (PPG) (Recchi, Crosby) Second Period: Andy Greene, Devils (PPG) (Elias, Rafalski) (FIRST CAREER GOAL)
Sergei Brylin, Devils (Oduya, Gomez)
Third Period: Sergei Gonchar, Penguins (Short) (Staal)
Travis Zajac, Devils (Langenbrunner, Parise)
Michel Ouellet, Penguins (Malkin)

Shots on Goal: 39-24 Devils

Penalties: Devils - 8 minutes, Penguins - 10 minutes

Hate to give the Penguins a point, but better to take 2 of them yourself and add an extra point between the teams in the standings.

Scrappy, hard-fought game. Emotion was running high in the closing moments of the thid period and overtime. Nice to see these two developing some hatred for each other.

Patrik Elias scores the only goal of the shootout as Brodeur shuts out the high-flying Penguins. Currently from Pittsburgh, but that's about to change it seems.

As much as this game pissed me off at times, it was pretty dang exciting. Devils should have won it in regulation, but a costly error allowed the Pens to tie it up. It's easy to get upset about allowing a shorthanded goal, but Pittsburgh is one of the best at scoring them. Lots of flashy talent.

But like I said, although it got erased and I had to start typing all over again, if you throw enough pucks at Fleury, he is susceptible to let some of those in. For all their offensive superpower, they have no reliable goaltending and it was nice to see the Devils destroy the Pens on shots on goal, shooting a lot and allowing single digits in every period. Well done. Not that the Devils were without their flaws, because they had some, but they were playing with Gionta (get well soon, little guy!) and Colin White (surprise!) but still played a pretty decent game.

Nice to see Martin Brodeur get to 40 wins this year. What a workhorse. Now that the winning is back in order, it's time to win and not let the other team get a point.