If the video gets removed, you can watch it here.

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any idea why? or Just Because? 

Awesome!!!

Good on MacD for going after that piece of puke Rempe

I don't know anything about MacDermid but holy wow he did really, really well against the giant. You can tell he watched tape to prepare because he was ready for Rempe and didn't let him get the hold he usually gets. 

The Rag$ fans at my office were all jazzed up for the game - and boy were they right.  It was a great game - even if the result was sub-optimal.   Rempe had been ejected in two games vs. NJD for illegal hits to the head.   The last time - he refused a fight from McDermid and waved 'bye bye' to the Devils bench and it was the talk of the town here.   There is no love lost between the Rangers, Devils and Islanders locally.   The Devils went down 2-0 and came back only to give it up on a weak penalty call vs. Brendan Smith and the subsequent power play.  Give credit to both sides for an unusually compelling game.  

That is a fight that needed to be fought! Kudos to refs for letting them go.

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post, 

This was a blast from the past of the Battle of the Hudson, but all the standing up the Rangers did for one another in the first two seconds of Wednesdays installment at the Garden wouldnt have been worth more than the veritable bucket of warm, uh, saliva if the Blueshirts had not won the game.

Because the Rangers are hunting for points to nail down first place in the NHL, in the Eastern Conference and in the Metro Division without a need to prove their manhood. Thats apparently what the also-ran Devils thought their night was about in the wake of Matt Rempe having concussed two teammates in two games without having to drop the gloves.

Head coach Peter Laviolette obliged New Jersey by reinserting Rempe into the lineup after three consecutive healthy scratches. Devils interim head coach Travis Green started his fourth line that included avenger Kurtis MacDermid, who lined up across from Rempe. The two exchanged words at the circle, referee Gord Dwyer skated to chat with the gentlemen and then dropped the puck.

While Rempe and MacDermid dropped their gloves and began to circle, New Jerseys Curtis Lazar jumped Jimmy Vesey, and a line brawl was on at 0:02, just the way there was a line brawl between these teams at the Garden at the drop of the puck at the Garden on March 19, 2012.

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I just watched the video again - it's pretty funny and I love the puck drop on this.  The ref throws the puck down and gets the hell out of the way.  

Both coaches started the game with 4th lines, so this was all prearranged I suppose

MacDermid tuned him up pretty good.