The Rangers and Devils are still standing, still playing for a shot at the Stanley Cup.
There must be villains and heroes, gods and devils, an epic story unfolding where we can play an epic part.
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And with the Kings and Devils playing for the Cup starting Wednesday, the NHL will have an underdog champion soon enough.
"He's playing with a different mental deck of cards, and it shows, " said Weekes, a former goaltender with the Rangers and Devils.
Rather than foisting gods and devils on the work of man, we should see it for what it is: the mad scramble of competition and collaboration over the years.
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The Cardiff Blues and Cardiff Devils rugby and ice hockey teams also pledged their support for the offer.
But for too long after their 2003 Stanley Cup run, the Devils were content to play too conservatively, according to NHL analyst and former Devils goaltender Kevin Weekes, and the franchise's recent past bears out the truth of Weekes's contention.
Not long after embarking upon the subject of God and melancholy, for example, Mr. Burton veers into "A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, Bad Angels, or Devils, " which leads into an elaborate taxonomy of evil creatures, including the question of whether some devils "have excrements" or "feel pain if they are hurt, " and whether there can be both good and bad devils.
But after the 2010-11 season, the worst of his career (he finished with a losing record for the first time, and the Devils missed the playoffs), Brodeur acknowledged that the passage of time had dulled his quickness and athleticism.
Brodeur, 40, was back in the net Thursday at home against the Islanders, and the Devils lost in overtime.
The Kings were the No. 8 seed last season, after all, and the Devils were No. 6 in the East.
Elias sat out most of overtime, Clarkson sat out all of it and the Devils couldn't muster a shot on goal over the five minutes.
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Patrik Elias scored twice, David Clarkson had the go-ahead goal and an assist and the Devils rallied from a two-goal deficit for a 6-2 victory Saturday.
Ilya Kovalchuk capped New Jersey's three-goal first period with his NHL-leading fourth short-handed goal, and the Devils beat the mistake-prone Philadelphia Flyers 5-2 on Wednesday night.
There are few saints and few devils in this game.
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Ilya Kovalchuk scored 4:39 into the extra session, and the Devils won their third straight game to start the lockout-shortened season, 3-2 over the winless Washington Capitals on Friday night.
Date it back a little more, and the Spartans and Blue Devils are the only teams to make it to the regional semifinals in at least 10 of the last 15 seasons.
Right wing Dainus Zubrus's 16 goals are the most he's scored in five years, and the Devils' rate of 2.57 goals per game through Saturday was the 17th-best in the league, a precipitous jump from where they had been.
With less than 12 minutes remaining in the third period and the Devils on a power play, Michael Grabner, the Islanders forward who is one of the fastest skaters in the NHL, picked off Ilya Kovalchuk's pass and cruised in alone on Hedberg.
He stopped the shot with his right pad, and the Devils' fans in the crowd sang out "Moose, " which has been Hedberg's nickname since 2001, when he kept wearing his old Manitoba Moose face mask even though he had been called up by Pittsburgh.
The Rangers won their second straight home game, scoring a combined 10 goals in the victories after a pair of shutout losses, and moved into a tie with the New Jersey Devils and New York Islanders with 39 points at the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Matches are played in purpose-built arenas, with the capital cities of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland hosting the Cardiff Devils, Belfast Giants and Edinburgh Capitals before audiences of between 5, 000 to 8, 000 partisan fans.
Plumlee finished with 10 points and the Blue Devils made 21 of 28 free throws.
Miller stopped 28 shots through overtime, and denied both Devils chances in the shootout.
For most of the game, the Devils and the Kings remained in a tight scoreless battle.
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This is also a land peopled with giants, devils and saints, as Mr Causley saw them.
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