Let’s get serious now.

By Josh Burnett
for 2ManAdvantage.com

Published: March 22, 2008

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Poor penguin...

Put on your game faces, boys and girls. It’s time to get serious.

…Or at least as serious as a post starting off with a cartoon Devil having his way with a cartoon penguin can get, anyway.

The Devils tonight look to erase the painful memories of recent failures in the Metro Ice Challenge by taking on the Penguins, co-holders of the lead for the Atlantic Division and owners of an identical record. The good news is that the boys in red and black have already taken four of six from Pittsburgh, giving the Devs the tiebreaker should the two teams end the season with identical top-of-the-Atlantic records.

Also good news? Sidney Crosby remains sidelined for both tonight’s tilt and Tuesday’s rematch at the Rock. You may recall Sidney went down with a high ankle sprain earlier this year, and it seems the Kid is still feeling the effects. It might not be classy, but I’ll take a Crosby-less Pens any day.

In roster-related news on the New Jersey side of things, Arron Asham’s one-punch takedown of the Isles’ Matthew Spiller aggravated a hand injury, so he’s out, per the extremely awesome Tom Gulitti. In his place is Barry Tallackson, recently recalled from Lowell. Also in are Andy Greene and Karel Rachunek, who thankfully are taking the spots of Vitaly Vishnevski and Sheldon Brookbank. Greene and Rachunek may not be perfect, but anyone’s better than Brookbank after last night’s game.

Patrik Elias and Bryce Salvador both remained sidelined for the Devils as well.

This is going to be a big game kiddies, so kick back, have a beer (root beer if you’re not of age, of course…), and let’s put the memories of offensively challenged games against the Rangers and Islanders to bed, yes?

Check back with us for a post-game wrap-up and other crazy shenanigans!

5 Comments on "Let’s get serious now."

Hasan on Sat, 22nd Mar 2008 9:19 pm

Oh they got serious alright…oy. Can’t wait to see the Sutter press conference – that’s about the only thing to look forward to tonight.

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Sergeich on Sat, 22nd Mar 2008 9:37 pm

This game was totally awesome… if it wasn’t for my buddy next to me suffering through 4-5 loss to Toronto after leading 4-2 I’d be devastated… but as is I’d take a lesson. Mr Weeks got his glorious chance to boost Zhenya’s numbers – awesome job. Hey, out of Datsyuk, Ovechkin, Malkin and Kovalchuk I certainly favor Malikin and Datsyuk the most… so, in a way it was a good night, wake up call. On Tuesday I expect:
1) Parise: to play like his dad in 72
2) Gionta: not to make your relatives scream Asshole
3) Langerbruner: just play isntead of drawing penalties and showing off shining facial expresions…
4) Brodeur: you’re cool actually.
5) Madden (I’m a huge fan of): please, capitalize on all those intercepts…
6) Zubrus – davay, nazhimay.
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7) Asham, Brylin, Clarkson, Pandolfo – guys, step up… it’s that time of the season.
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Elias – I know, we screwed up big time with that hepatitis, but seriously – I haven’t had flue in 22 years and I’m 31….