Fri 21 Sep 2007
9:35 PM ET: Game over, Devils lose 4-3. Not a big deal, so long as Weekes is okay. Early reports out of NY seem to indicate he should be a-okay though.
JOSH SAYS: Meh. Preseason. We didn’t look that bad once the first period ended.
9:24 PM ET: Holler. Gionta makes Valiquette look like swiss cheese, 4-3.
9:20 PM ET: Brother Parise looks pretty good tonight. This kid’s got talent.
9:17 PM ET: Ugh. The boys are just making Valiquette look terrific tonight, aren’t they? No screen, no deflection. No goal.
9:12 PM ET: Too many penalties.
JOSH SAYS: Nickie Palmieri, you’re assaulting the wrong guy. Avery is #16.
9:08 PM ET: Jordan Parise with a huge save on Artem Anisimov…I think. Training camp roster names are unkind to journalists.
9:05 PM ET: Ryan Hollweg just knocked the poop out of Richard Matvichuk. Boy, these Rangers sure like to hit.
9:03 PM ET: Sigh, another Devils penalty. Parise and Gionta both in the box. What’s wrong with that picture?
8:59 PM ET: Come on miraculous comeback!
[JOE HERE, REPORTING LIVE FROM MSG:] MUCH more aggressive in the 2nd. It’s become obvious that Lou needs to start drafting d-men though. Tee-hee.
8:42 PM ET: And we’re done with two.
8:37 PM ET: I’ll eat my words now. Wow, Parise with a dazzler of a goal on the man advantage. He totally made Kaspar look like a fool. 4-2.
JOSH SAYS: Holy (poo) a power play goal!!
8:36 PM ET: Drats, another Devils PP. Decline penalties?
8:30 PM ET: Ugh. Chemistry folks, chemistry. 4-1 Rangers.
8:26 PM ET: Vishnevski is a mother friggen beast! BEAST I tell you!
8:25 PM ET: Another empty power play. I’m not worried. The boys actually don’t look too bad, rather, they just don’t have the most chemistry in the world right now. It’ll get better.
8:21 PM ET: Darn, spoke too soon. Montoya out, Steve Valiquette in. Devils set for another power play as well.
JOSH SAYS: If someone’s not going to just pull out a pistol and murder Avery on the ice, I’d take just Avery f’ing up really badly resulting in a Devils goal.
8:19 PM ET: Puckhandler Montoya is not. Keep wandering behind the net, Al. At this rate, the Devils might just have a shot.
2MA READER CHRIS SAYS: First true sign of Devils hockey — Elias unable to score on an open net.
8:12 PM ET: The Devils have life.
8:09 PM ET: Mmm, Al Montoya and Darius Kasparaitis have a lovely miscommunication, Zubrus takes advantage and pops the puck in. 3-1 Rangers.
8:07 PM ET: Brilliant camera work, MSG. 3-0 Rangers now, but the viewing audience wouldn’t know it. MSG finds it more important to show meaningless highlights of other crap.
8:03 PM ET: Start of the second. I’d either like to see the Devils make a triumphant yet meaningless comeback or Sean Avery spontaneously combust. Either would be fun.
[JOE HERE, REPORTING LIVE FROM MSG:] Well, here’s my thoughts on the first. Zajac is our best player so far, Zubrus has been excellent in his own end, Vishnevski looking like he’s in another country, and our D has no depth whatsoever. Elias seems to still be the vocal leader.
7:45 PM ET: 2-0 after one. Uh, did the Devils show up tonight?
JOSH SAYS: Well, that sucked.
7:40 PM ET: Attaboy Marshy! Avery is a marked man. Too bad Cam doesn’t have a bionic shoulder, he would have ripped Mr. Avery’s head off by now, I reckon.
7:37 PM ET: These poor, poor Devils. Can’t get anything going. David Clarkson proves he believes he can fly. Wonder if he can touch the sky, too.
7:35 PM ET: Kaspar nearly annihilated poor Johnny O. Another penalty. Devils on the pee-pee.
7:32 PM ET: Hearts for Vishnevski. Yeah, he just took a penalty and put the boys down two men, and yeah, the Rangers just scored again putting the Devils in the hole 2-0, but at least he gave a hearty cross-check to Sean Avery in the process. That’s always fun to watch.
Not that I condone injuring players or anything…but Sean Avery is stupid.
7:30 PM ET: Rupp in the box, Devils shorthanded again. I know this is preseason and all, but if the Devils want to get back into this one, they need to kill this bad boy off.
And kill Sean Avery, too.
7:28 PM ET: It’s starting to get a little feisty. Boys, take note: Sean Avery must be destroyed.
7:27 PM ET: Nothing really going on right now. Borrrrring. Sean Avery is still garbage though.
7:18 PM ET: Looks like we’re going to see a goalie change just minutes into the game. He really got run bad, folks. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a concussion here — he whacked his head bad after getting run by Avery.
7:17 PM ET: Weekes is down after getting creamed by Sean Avery. In a respectable fashion, the crowd is cheering. I love how goalies continue to be run by this butt face. Seriously. This is ridiculous.
JOE SAYS: Avery: Two minutes for a hate crime.
7:14 PM ET: Upon further review, I really hate these new jerseys. They’re butt ugly. The angled bottoms are terrible.
7:11 PM ET: Le sigh. Byers all alone up front and throws the puck past Weekes. Good coverage boys. Really.
7:10 PM ET: Penalty, Devils. It starts already. Corrente in the box. Bastard.
7:08 PM ET: Here we go!
4:29 PM ET: Mr. Bechtel will be attending tonight’s festivities. Look for reports from Joe throughout the game. Oh yeah.
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Tune in to our friends over at MSG Network to see the Devils take on the New York Rangers tonight in preseason action. Game time is at 7 pm.
And yes folks, you read right: I will be live-capping the game tonight.
Hooray!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Is it 7pm yet?????
September 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
i’m going! soooooooooooo exited…i’ve already got my jersey and hat on…only 2 hours and 30 mins. untill we leave!
September 21st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Please somebody tell me how can I listen the game on the internet. Thank you.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:17 pm
NJDalex, this is where I normally listen from, when I have to. Stupid MSG and their preseason blackouts. Stupid Center Ice, not showing preseason games.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pm
MrFrisby, Thank you.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:26 pm
I will be watching tonight WooHoo, can’t wait.Thank You Mr Frisby, for that link. I wish that I could have found that for the other pre season games, I was looking all over for the radio station, I don’t know how I missed it ,this is where I went last night looking. At this injury rate, when the season opens who the Hell will be left on the roster?
September 21st, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Avery=PU$$Y
September 21st, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Un believable! Throwing our own player into Weekes, another one down,Weekes looked like He was in La La Land. Somebody better take care of Avery before the game ends, Now We could really use Mr. Anger Management.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Vitali Vishnevski will turn out to be a huge signing for the Devils this year, mark it.
VV is the man right now, I’m really liking his style.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:40 pm
typically puke that Avery is…
the announcers said the Weekes had trouble moving his legs, but if you watched when the trainer was looking at him, it looked like he was going to throw up. Most likely just a concussion
Someone please hit Avery in the back of his head with their stick, Vishnevski is a good candidate, or even Oduya
September 21st, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Every time a Devil tries to get Avery the Ref’s jump in to save Him, Gio is smaller in size and the Ref’s let Him fight His own battles, Gio is a bigger Man,I didn’t know that Asham is also hurt, WTF. I know that this is only Pre season but I hope this is not what The Dev’s will play like, this is pretty bad, Marshall will not let Avery get away with this crap all night, Hey maybe He will challenge Kasper and do the chicken dance again.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Do We even have any D on the ice? Martin the # 1? did He even dress tonight?
September 21st, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Eh I’d rather it be someone like Corrente if he’s going to take a suspension going after Avery since he won’t make the team anyway.
Little fecker’s probably loving this too, he’s like the kid in the second Mighty Ducks movie that laughs ‘Two minutes, well worth it!’
I wonder how his teammates feel about him taking out Weekes in a preseason game when he was one of them for two years?
September 21st, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Weekes thinks he’s playin for Florida.
Totally knocked silly. Another player with another injury. Let’s hope it’s not a serious concussion. Maybe a grade 1. Keepin my fingers crossed.
Period 2 starts… let’s see if they got the rest of the rust off their skates.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Vitali is here to lighten things up…
September 21st, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Oduya is really getting on my nerves, as is avery.
I’m not likin’ this game too much.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:43 pm
dammit why does MSG or Direct TV whoever’s to blame show me half the friggin game and then black it out? that’s some huge BS. i’d rather they had showed me none of it as opposed to the tease i was dealt. Direct tv is horrible.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Seems like that’s happened to quite a few people, I’ll count myself lucky that DirecTV hasn’t killed my feed. Are you out of the NY/NJ metro area, J Dunn?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:09 pm
yea im in cali, i mean, i understand the “blackout” wop, but why show me half the game then decide to turn it off? it’s just unproffesional. i called thenm too and they had no answers. but whatever.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Comcast may be pricey, but thank goodness they don’t do that, Hey do any of You direct tv people have a Passions update for Me?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Did Gionta get a high stick or did He get shot?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:27 pm
The usual Devs bringin some more light to the game. At least it’s within one now. It’s still anyone’s game.
At least there was an update on Weekes. He finally remembered he’s playing for the Devs now.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Do You hear those A holes in the crowd yelling “we’ve got Gomer?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:43 pm
If I was there I would have been shouting “YOU CAN HAVE HIM!” right back at em.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:30 pm
What happened to Asham?
Avery had better not have had anything to do with it, for his sake.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I believe he injured his knee in the Boston pre-season game…I can’t recall WHERE I heard such a thing, so it could be untrue. Either way, he seems to have been added to the list of Devils players not feeling so hot.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Yup, Asham injured his knee. Hopefully it’s not too serious, a la Jason Wiemer — tore his ACL and faded into Devil obscurity.
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:34 am
oh great. Another guy down, Just perfect.