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After the New Jersey Devils were eliminated in the first round- again-, for some reason, it didn't seem as if it was as deflating as in years past. I looked at some of the past results, and there's good reason for that. Some of the postseason eliminations have been much more excruciating and painful than the one experienced this year. Read on at your own peril, as ...

The Devils' fate was officially sealed Thursday night.  It was unofficially sealed when Olli Jokinen's ill-fated backhand shot on Brian Boucher in the shootout was stopped, combined with Jamie Langenbrunner burying an empty-net shot with two seconds left in the Devils' season finale. That created a Flyers-Devils first-round matchup.  Normally a Devils win and a Rangers loss is a fantastic thing, but it really came back to bite the Devils this time. If ...

The Devils were facing a must-win situation tonight in Philadelphia. Down 2-1 in the best-of-seven series, New Jersey was looking to even up the series and head back to the Rock with home-ice advantage regained. Unfortunately, the Devils came out flat, and got embarrassed on Philadelphia ice by the Flyers—the same team that made it into the playoffs on the final day of the regular season by the hair on ...

If you believe everything you read, you'd be under the assumption that there is no real threat to take down Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller in this year's Vezina Trophy running.  Then again, if you had believed everything you've ever read, you'd also believe that Marilyn Monroe's death was an inside job or that Taylor Swift is some kind of untameable sex maniac (God, I wish). Often in order to get to ...

While everyone is busy making series projections and breaking down each playoff match-up, we at Bleacher Report wanted to look beyond the rosters and rank the men behind the bench who make these teams go. The coach above (Bruce Boudreau) led his Washington Capitals to the President's Trophy, but you might be surprised at where he's ranked on this list. Where does your favorite team's coach rank? ...

Friday night's game featuring the Colorado Avalanche hosting the Calgary Flames is a classic matchup of the ultimate underachievers against the ultimate overachievers—with an insanely large amount of importance surrounding it. The Colorado Avalanche had been one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2010 NHL campaign. By Feb. 6, they had already eclipsed their entire point total from last season.  They were getting steady goaltending from goalkeeper Craig Anderson, who ...

Doesn't seem too long ago that we were in the 'dog days' of January, with the ambiance of the beginning of the regular season far gone and the playoffs seemingly never to arrive. But now, there are exactly two weeks until the end of the regular season, and the picture is becoming clearer as to who will be playing past April 11 and who will not be. Sidney ...

Sixteen-and-a-half seconds. That's how close the Rangers were to losing a 3-2 decision to the rivals across the Hudson River, the New Jersey Devils, on Thursday night. But more than just the game was on the line that night.  They were losing any realistic shot of making an extremely late playoff push, with the eighth-seeded Boston Bruins five points ahead of them, plus an extra game in hand for Boston.   But then one ...