The Cavaliers had won three of their last four overall, shot just 26.7 percent (16 of 60), had 21 turnovers and have not beaten the Blue Devils since a 61-49 victory on Jan. 30, 2000.
The timing of the suspension could not be worse for the Devils, who have lost eight straight games (0-4-4) and are in danger of missing the playoffs with eight games left in the regular season.
The population has recovered, but the genetic diversity has not recovered so that all the Tasmanian devils that exist are so similar to one another genetically that their immune systems don't seem to be able to tell one from another.
Moreover, an NBA team at the Prudential Center would not get much beyond ticket revenue because the Devils control the building and keep most of the revenue.
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In a knee-jerk reaction there will be a call to ban or curtail the activities of these devils even though the report does not conclude that speculators were the cause for the run up in gasoline prices.
Construction was due to be completed by October, but the Devils were then told the venue would not be ready until 2 December.
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His admission, of course, was of small consolation to Lou Lamoriello, the Devils' president and general manager, who did not negotiate with Parise's agent, Wade Arnott, during the 2011-12 season but was in constant contact with him once the league's free-agency period began at noon on Sunday.
"We're not the first team Lundqvist has done this to, " said Devils coach Peter DeBoer, who watched his team squander five power plays and two breakaways.
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This is not a return to the full public-company status the Red Devils enjoyed between 1991 and 2005, when the club was taken private by the Glazer family of Florida, which also owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an American-football team.
The Devils would have a tough time surviving if they did not have a rich cable deal with MSG (which owns the Rangers) that Jim Dolan is paying in large part to prevent the start of a competing regional sports network.
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It may not have been a blowout against 15th-seeded Albany, but the Blue Devils (28-5) held a comfortable lead throughout and will play seventh-seeded Creighton, which beat Cincinnati 67-63, in the third round Sunday.
This time, though, against the Kings and goaltender Jonathan Quick, the Devils labored to generate scoring chances and shots a problem that had not dogged them earlier in this postseason.
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