Flyers Crack Devils Again, Win 3-2

This is not the way you expect a home and home series against the Devils to go.  You can hope for a split, maybe the loss coming in overtime, and be satisfied with that.  Instead, the Flyers overcome a 2-0 deficit to win 3-2, again.  Once again, the Devils had lucky goals go in.  The first one was a weak dribbler that rolled through idiot Leighton’s legs 45 seconds into the game.  Then, on the pwerplay, and attempted pass in front bounced off a Flyer and went in.  That’s all the luck that that New Jersey would have on offense for the rest of the game.  THey spent much more time in the offensive zone, and outshot the Flyers 23-15.  However, a lot of the play was spent along the boards, with very few chances coming from the slot.

This time, the Flyers answered the second Devils goal by scoring 32 seconds later.  Aaron Asham sent a hard wrister past Brodeur on the short side.  In the second, a 3 on 3 rush lead to the Flyers second goal.  Briere fed it to Carter on the left, and he had enough room to fire another hard wrist shot past Brodeur, with about 6 minutes left in the period.  From this point, the Devils had a lot of sustained pressure, but only one scary chance.  Leighton was caught out of position and left a gaping open net, but luckily the Devils shooter (luckily not Kovy) was at a bad angle and shot it across the goalmouth.  Meanwhile, the Flyers did have some great chances, but just couldn’t put it away.

Finally, overtime came.  Kovalchuk was well marked, and as soon as he got possession of the puck, he had to give it up.  This was the case through most of the game.  Finally, about halfway into the period, Simon Gagne woke up.  He was a one m an wrecking crew as soon as he got the puck.  He raced down the left boards, around the net, back up the right boards to the blueline, stepped in between the two Devils pointmen, and sent yet another wrister past Brodeur.  With that goal, he became the leading individual scorer against Marty.  And with te win, the Flyers beat the Devils 4 times in one regular season for the first time in 20 years.

Rants

• Shortly after cutting the lead in half, the Flyers got a powerplay. Briere took a shot, and Hartnell was robbed by Brodeur on the rebound. Or was he? The overhead replay shows Marty’s glove completely in the net, just a little behind the line.  We see the puck on the line, and in process of crossing it, before it disappears in the glove. Through the mesh of the glove, we see a dark object, which obviously is the puck. After official review: NO GOAL!  And why is there no goal? Because the rule is stupid.  Since the replay officials cannot actually see the puck in the net, and are not allowed to use common sense, they cannot allow the goal.  This is stupid. Glove in goal, puck in glove = goal! Idiots!

• I hate the New Jersey accent. I hate NJ state troopers. I hate jug handle turns. I hate DRIVE RIGHT, PASS LEFT. I hate Scott Stevens. I hate that a team has only 15,000 people show up for a Stanley Cup parade. I hate the 2000 Eastern Conference Finals.  I hate Ken Daneyko. I hate Claude Lemieux (fake ass Lemieux). I hate Jersey shore parking. I hate tramcars on the boardwalk. I HATE NEW JERSEY AND THEIR STINKING DEVILS!

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