Wowzers.

On top of tampa's 31 shots that Marty stopped, the forwards (not just the D) had abotu 20 blocked shots. And let's not forget the goal posts' amazing performance.

And, BTW, Marty was listed as 1st star of the night on the nhl site, and there's something about the win in the news thing. And it's bigger then the 50% off ground shipping. So it must be pretty darn big. But the goal post wasn't mentioned at all. Except for the recap on the Devils site.

It was nice to see the Devils being our shot, and holmqvist being out saved. By a lot.

4/20: Game 5

[8:07] Game time!! Well, I'm a little late, but get over it. About 5 minutes gone in the 2nd, and it's 1-0 Devils with Andy Greene's first playoff goal (congrats, Andy!!) at 12:46 from Mike Rupp and Scott Gomez. Let's see..there's the million awesome saves by Brodeur, a nice block from Richard Matvichuk that would have resulted in a goal had he not been there. A nice hit by Rasmussen right now, and 2 usuless PPs for the Devils. Not to mention that short handed breakaway by Johnny Madden that almost resulted in a goal. A little higher and he could have had it. Oh well. We still killed it off. But this has been a rather exciting game so far. 14 saves from Marty to homqvist's 5. I'm liking this game so far, except for the lack of ice time Zach's getting. And all those playoff beard are just plain awesome. I'll be back when something *good* happens.

[8:17] After Jamie needs to get a new stick during a faceoff and ticks the refs off, just a little, tampa gets a shot in which Marty covers, and Travis starts some crap with a bolt. I love hockey. But I don't like the lack of the Zach attack.
Aaannndddd a deflection off holmquist and THEY SCORE!! Brian Gionta!! From Gomez and Rafakski at 9:59 of the 2nd!! 2-0 Devils. Zach next?

[8:32] Nice crap call on Martin, refs. Now, is it just me, or do their PPs seem to last longer? At least our PK isn't bad. And thank you, refs, for evening it up, and missing that call on Matty. 4 on 4 for 26 seconds, then a PP for 1:34. Let's go guys!! And I can't say this enough: I WANT ZACH!! Come on, Lou.

[9:41] Whoo!! 31 save shutout for Brodeur. Or more like 25 if you count all those saves the goal post had. Either way, good game. Gomer sealed the win at 18:13 with an empty netter from Captain Elias.

9 penalties were called from 18:27 till the end, so I don't know how that played out. We were on the PP for like a minute at the end, though. We killed off 3 penalties, and couldn't score on any of our 4 PPs. So yeah..White missed the game, and Clarkson was called up, but didn't play. Hopefully both will play on Sunday. BTW, the game's on NBC at 1 on Sunday, incase you didn't hear.

3 STARS (from yahoo):
#3- Gio
#2- Greene
#1- Marty

I would have said:
#3- Andy/Gomer (they would both be a good choice, right?)
#2- Marty
#1- The goal post, who I shall nick name the awesome one.

With that, I'll be back Sunday. Unless something big happens, like someone, like, I don't know.

Scratch that.

I lied about my 3 stars. And that occurred to me when I looked on yahoo and the 3 stars were listed as follows:
#3- holmqvist
#2- st loius
#1- Gomer

Yeah, Gomer had the game winner. Yeah, homo, er, homer, had 33 saves or whatever, but come on. Marty deserves something for his improved game. And what about Zach and Travis? Not only did the Zach attack have 2 goals in that games, and now leads the NHL in playoff goals (so far), but Travis had the assists on both of them, and, combined, they had 6 points in the last 2 games. If you ask me, that's better then 1 goal, or a goal and an assist. And since when does losing a game make you star worthy? I can see Gomer getting the #2 or #3 star, but Zach definitely deserved to be #1, and I don't see why Travis wasn't #3. And people wonder why I hate the NHL.

Here we go.

K, so I'm bored. So I'm gonna be here through the whooole game. Except for if I have to pee. Or if when I make my brownines.

Blah blah blah game four just a few moments away blah blah blah. Take it away, Doc-ie boy.

[edit] I rarely start with a rant, but why did they use the Madden line as the starting line? That was kind of dumb. No offense, Madden. And nice hit on lecavs, Matty. And on the lame Marty. Matty, will you marry me? He's like amazing right now *knocks on wood.*

[edit]Thank you Raffy!! A power play. Let's have that work in our favor this time, mmk? And I don't care who has the puck blah blah. I wanna here 'He scores!! !! 1-0 Devils!!' Don't you?

[edit]GIO!! I LOVE you!! If my sister didn't call him, I'd totally say he could be one of my many future husbands. 1-0, Devils, Brian Gionta from Johnny Oduya and Brian Rafalski. Not a PPG, cuz it was over, but the guy still wasn't in the play blah blah..I don't care what it was, as long as we're winning.

[edit] erik perrin, I hope you die. And your obnoxious fans shoudl go die too. BEcause honestly, they're worse then rags and pens fan combined. But on the bright side, the Devils are still awesomer and Matty's like awesome. And what's with Zach right now? Aim, sweetie, aim!!

[edit] Thank you, Zach!! I think he heard me. They must be reading this on the bench. Totally. Anyway, Zach's 5th playoff goal, from Paul Martin and TRAVIS ZAJAC. So that's Travis's 2nd assist/point. That's exciting. And Marty's kind of awesome. Just incase you doubted that.

[edit] 3-1 GO ZACH!! 2nd goal of the game for Mr. Parise, from Andy Greene and Travis Zajac. And I love Marty and whoever just hit lecavs with the puck. I really like this game.

[edit] EWWW. 3-2. At least we're winning. Although I'd like to be winning by more. Either way, I hate tampa.

[edit] 3-3 in the 3rd. Too many 3's for my liking. So let's score Devils *Zach* and I'll be happy. And Jamie's like asleep on the bench.
I WANNA WIN!!

[edit] Here guys:


Can you do that?

[edit] :43 into OT, and Martin's in the box for delay of game. Uh oh. Kill it off guys!!

[edit] NIce PK, guys. Now, uhm, how bout a nice goal to go alone with that?

[edit] I take back everything I ever said about Gomer. 4-3 OT win for us, and we come back home tied 2-2. WHOO! Yeah, that goal was unassisted.

Aannnddd the 3 stars:
#3- Brodeur
#2- Gionta
#1- ZACH PARISE!!

I liked this game.