Gumdrop: Phew!  For a moment there I thought the Devils were due for an epic collapse, but turns out it was just a cruel joke to give Rangers fans false hope.  Three goals in the first ten minutes was exactly what the Devils needed to get inside Henry’s head and take this game by the balls… or so you’d think.  But when Zajac scored on Lundqvist straight-up to notch New Jersey’s third of the night, I started having auditory hallucinations of Stan Fischler’s famous “ 3 is the worst lead in hockey” rant.  Instead of firing them up, the big lead seemed to give the Devils a feeling of complacency while desperation fueled the Rangers’ fire for a comeback. The Blueshits threw everything they had at Marty and clawed their way back into contention thanks to a bullshit call from Toronto and an ugly error out of Brodeur. But the Devils never stopped grinding and never let New York take the lead.  Their resiliency paid dividends late in the third as Ryan Carter broke Broadway hearts with is game winning goal.  Your silence is golden, MSG…

Not to kick you while your down or anything, Rangers fans, but just take a quick look at the stats from last night for King Nothing in net.  Four goals on only sixteen shots against, a .750 save percentage.  That’s fucking pathetic, even by Bryzgalov standards.  Your precious pretty boy let in a quarter of the shots he faced while Marty finished up with a .893 Sv% on 28 shots. Even with the grotesque third period goal Brodeur gifted up, he was still the better goalie in game five and that’s always been the x-factor in this series.  For the first time, the Rangers played well enough at both ends of the ice to pull out a win but their Vezina nominated netminder wasn’t there to back them up.  Whine all you want about a high stick on Stepan or MDZ’s bad positioning or Hagelin’s bad backchecking, but when it comes time to place blame, even Lundqvist would point the finger at himself.  He sucked, and it was beautiful…. @GumdropNJD