YES! - a shut out! After dropping the last 2 games on the road (especially the stinko 8-1 loss in Ottawa!) the Devils come home and post a shut out. Guess they like playing at home.
Martin Brodeur tied Hall of Famer Jacques Plante for fourth place on the NHL shutout list with 82. Go Marty!
Not a lot of fans in attendance as is usual for the Devils early in the season - especially with the World Series going on. (baseball - who needs stinking baseball when you have hockey to watch!) Zack Parise got the sparse crowd going with a power play goal in the first. I didn't think it was going in, but Zack made it happen. Gotta love this guy!
Elias got the second in the second and then the Devs shut them down and out. Good game.
Tom Chorske, new radio color commentator (anyone know what happened to John Hennessy and Randy Velischek?), was interviewing Parise after the game and Parise told him that he had 2 teeth knocked out by a high stick . Panther's Martin Gelinas only got 2 minutes. They should include knocking out teeth in the additional 2 minutes you get for drawing blood. I don't know how you can knock out teeth without drawing blood, but maybe they were both just broken. Either way, teeth should be included.
My husband and I usually come early to the games. We eat and watch the pregame warm-up. We were sitting there and we noticed a couple of the Devils Power Player girls talking to some people down at the end of the row in front of us.
They finished their conversation and headed our way. They said, "hi" and asked if these were our seats - I'm guessing that the other people were "just visiting." We said. "yes," and then they asked if we wanted to do the Sovereign Shuffle game. I wasn't sure I felt like being in the spotlight, but my husband - who is usually shy - said, "Sure, why not!"
So they took his name and town, then told us that they would be back during the 2nd TV timeout during the 1st period. The camera guys showed up soon after the game started. When the girls came back, they asked if we would move to a lower row, because they "couldn't get a good camera angle."
That was just a ploy, we thought because there weren't a lot of people seated around us. Hey, guess they didn't know that we know all the people in the area and we could filled those seats by asking our friends to move.
We went along and moved to a row about 4-5 rows up from the ice. It was kind of fun sitting so close, but I wouldn't want to do it for a whole game - you can't see anything that's not in front of you very well. We were hoping for a goal - didn't happen. We were also hoping we would get hit by a puck - just our luck - but that didn't happen either.
We easily guessed which helmet the puck was under and we won the prize. It was a white Corvette bank with the Sovereign logo on the trunk and license plate. We also got a Devils gift pack which included a puck, a team picture, a pennant, a mini-replica Stanley Cup and a travel mug - all previous give-away items. But it was fun.
Our section mates all complained that this was the first time they would get to ogle the Power Player girls up close and we took them away. We told them, "They took US away," but that didn't cut us any slack.
Posted by Cyberkat at October 29, 2006 10:19 AM | TrackBack