Brylin to play *with* Russia

Sergei Brylin will be playing with Russia's national team, and could play in their semifinal game against Finland. Wouldn't it be kinda funny if team USA had won and he was playing against Parise? Hope he got all of his Hep. A shots too.

Anyway, about that coaching thing. According to several people/sites, John MacLean, Pat Burns and Scott Stevens are on the top of Lou's list. Johnny Mac and Burns have both made their desire to coach the team public, while Stevens is another story. I haven't read anything (yet) stating that he wants to do it (actually, I haven't heard anything about him really since he retired), but I have heard that Lou would like him to consider it. I'd settle for any of the above, but Stevens would be my top choice, followed by Burns, with MacLean in third. Sadly, as awesome as I am, I'm not nearly as amazing as Lou, nor will I ever be, so the decision is not up to me. Good luck to all of the "contestants," and may the best candidate win.

The Beloved Back-up

Maybe not so beloved, since a lot of people want him gone next season, but I <3 him. Scott Clemmensen was lucky enough to be that first non-rookie/Lowell-er who's profile thing I posted. [Side note: I have a little update on the coaching thing, but that'll come a little later.]

Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 205
Position: Goalie
Birthday: July 23, 1977
Catches: Left

2006/07 Season:
Team: Lowell/Devils
Games played: 1/6
Wins: 1/1
Loses: 0/1
OT Loses: 0/2
Points: 0/0
Shutouts: 1/0
Goals Against Average: 0/3.15
Save Percentage: 1.000/.889


2006/07 Playoffs:
Team: Devils
Games Played: 0
Wins: 0
Loses: 0
OT Loses: 0
Points: 0
Shutouts: 0
GAA: 0
SV%: N/A

I may be in the minority, but I hope he resigns with us.

Parise to Play in Russia

The Zach Attack will be playing with team USA for their quarterfinal against Finland. He also played with the team in 2005 and recorded two assists in three games. Good luck, Zach, and beware of Hepatitis A.

Momento Numero..Trois.

I don't know any Spanish, so forgive me for putting "three" in French. Moving on, Lowell's third awesome moment was my favorite-est back up goalie ever, Scott Clemmensen, shutting out the Worcester Sharks back in February. Clemmy stopped 14 shots in the first period, 13 in the second and 8 in the 3rd, and Aaron Voros scored two goals and Ryan Murphy put in the empty netter for a 3-0 victory for Lowell. Clemmer then lead the big guys to a 3-2 win over the Washington Capitals several days after. He was first star in that (Lowell) game, because he's the best.


As for my Devil of the week thing, I decided I'll do two a week: a rookie or a Lowell-er on Mondays, to go with the Lowell moments, and a bug guy on Friday. This week, I'm giving Andy Greene the honors of being my first rookie. He was by far the Devils best D man in the play offs.

Height: 5' 11"
Wight: 195
Position: Defense (duh)
Birthday: October 30, 1982
Shoots: Left
From: Trenton, Michigan

2006/07 Season:
Team: Lowell/Devils
Games played: 52/23
Goals: 5/1
Assists: 16/5
PIMs: 28/6
PPG: 1/1
SHG: 0/0
GWG: 1/0
+/-: +6/-1

2006/07 Playoffs:
Team: Devils
Games played: 11
Goals: 2
Assists: 1
PIMs: 2
PPG: 0
SHG: 0
GWG: 1
+/-: +6

Andy's amazing. End of story.

So long, Continental.

25 years and 7 months after it started, it's all over. Never again will the Devils play at Continental Airlines Arena. Oh my, I'm ready to cry. I'm not even gonna do the whole recap thing, just a box score type thing.

GOALS:
1st:
Scott Gomez, wrist shot from Patrik Elias and Paul Martin (6:59)
2nd:
No one cares.
3rd:
Gomez, wrist shot from John Madden and Zach Parise
Final: 2-3.

(My)THREE STARS:
#3-Parise
#2- Brodeur
#1- Gomez


So..yeah. Gomez made it pretty clear that he doesn't wanna stay with the Devils next season, and I doubt Clemmensen will stay, if he gets an offer anywhere else. I think Rafalski will stay. He seemed like he wanted to. I don't know about the rest of them, though.

After the post game last night, I hate that ranger worshipping stan fischler more than ever. For those of you that didn't see it, he flat out said Clemmensen sucks. And he wasn't exactly nice about some of the other players. He pretty much dissed Elias right to his face, too. Patrik really didn't have a bad series. Things just didn't go his way. It happened to everyone. As if jagr's a good captain anyway. Someone hits one of his teammates so instead of hitting them back, he goes and lectures their bench. What's wrong with him? If your teammate is incompetent and can't hit back himself, don't (basically) make your team shorthanded. Do what Rupp would do and beat the crap out of them (even though the Devils usually have the sense to hit back themselves).


I still can't believe it. We were one goal away from forcing it into OT. And with the exception of a few crap goals, Marty was amazing. It's sad how this came down to which goalie was better, but the better one didn't win. Nothing went our way. The entires series was decided by unlucky bounces garbage calls.

Since I can't bear to not write about hockey until october, I'll be posting recaps of other games and news and all that stuff. And I'll be doing a Devil of the week thing, where I'll post that stats from this season and profile of a Devil once a week (probably Mondays or whenever I post the Lowell moments thing). Till next October, my friends. Actually, until the Sabres/rangers game is over. Then till Monday. So I won't be gone too long.