from Mollie Walker of the New York Post,
he Devils have made this first-round series against the Rangers competitive again.
Dougie Hamilton scored 11:36 into overtime to keep the Devils’ spirits alive and hand the Rangers a 2-1 loss Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, which prevented the home team from strengthening their already strong grip on this series.
“When we’ve been challenged and we’ve been down we have always answered the call this year — always,” Devils head coach Lindy Ruff said after his team’s win, which cut the Rangers’ series lead to 2-1.
The contest simply played more to the Devils’ style than the Rangers. With the score tied at one-all in the third period, the game turned into a track meet and the Devils were able to counter any offense the Rangers generated. That carried into overtime, as well.
And that was just what the Devils needed to alter the trajectory of the series.
Below watch the game highlights.
from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
If it is an axiom that players and teams need to have short memories in the playoffs and it is then the Devils showed up at the Garden on Saturday as if they had gone through an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind treatment.
This was a different Devils team with, literally, a different goaltender in place as contrasted with the one that played the first two games at The Rock and suffered consecutive defeats to the Rangers.
This was a team that reminded everyone it finished the regular season with 112 points, five more than the Rangers.
But this was also a somewhat different Rangers team from the one that dominated in the two games in Newark. This was a Rangers team that never quite got on its horse, never quite got to its game, never quite rose to the moment yearned for by a Garden crowd that was more apprehensive than exuberant as the match evolved.
I think it was probably a combination of them being better and us not being as sharp, Barclay Goodrow said after the Devils won Game 3 on Dougie Hamiltons overtime 2-1 winner as a trailer at 11:36 after Goodrows line had been beaten on the backtrack. We knew they were obviously going to respond after losing two at home.
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Hamilton on Broadway! Go Devils!
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