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Let's give a round of applause for Schmid. What an amazing three games.

Devils can obviously really pull off something amazing and incredible on Saturday. We know the deal...the Rangers made the kinds of moves that scream "We'd better make a SERIOUS fvcking run at this thing, RIGHT NOW! Making the playoffs was a foregone conclusion...no honorable mentions there. Winning a round or even two rounds isn't really enough. A Conference Final appearance is pretty good, but we want to at LEAST GET to the SCF! Anything less than that will not be seen as a win by our fans nor this franchise!" So this is NOT just an encouraging series win for our young upstart Devils, should they pull this off. Is it a beautiful step forward? Of course. But it's more what this does to the Rangers...for them, this is an absolute crusher, the kind of disaster that will stick with them for an entire offseason. Panarin will hear it. Zibane-bad will hear about it. No one will remember Kreider lighting it up on the power play early on. They'll have wasted a year of firmly-in-his-prime Shesterkin, and surely some will start to remember how the Rangers found ways to waste Lundqvist's prime years, when he had a four-year run where he did all that he could to give his team Stanley Cup Championship-level goaltending, and simply deserved better. The Ranger faithful will be getting ornery and plenty restless, and even better, would have to watch the team that killed what was supposed to be a big-time all-in season for them move on to the next round...ON THEIR HOME ICE! Does it get any better? fvck no! And fvck THEM! All of those dumbass "Duuuuuuuh Brawdway Noo Yawk Tradition!" Ranger fans. They deserve nothing but more disappointment and failure and misery, and we root for just the team that can make that happen! So L G M F D! Beat them! Send everyone home that's associated with them unhappy and angry and bewildered! CRUSH! THEIR! DREAMS! DO IT! FINISH THEM!

Just got home. One of the most satisfying home playoff games that I have ever attended. Watching the Ranger fans saunter out of their seats at 4-0…fvck ‘em, every last one of them. Man of course I was hopeful and I never revised my Devils winning in six prediction, but if anyone had told me that this team would flip the narrative THIS convincingly and abruptly, I wouldn’t have believed it. The Rangers had NO answers tonight. None! That being said…still hard work to be done. Ranger fans (and maybe even the team itself) sure seemed to think this was sewn up at 2-0. The Devils don’t have it wrapped up at 3-2. But very much loving their chances. L G M F Deviiiiiiiiiiiiils!!!

Hang it in the Louvre

Omfg.... You love to see it

Dear NJ Devils, You played very well last night and I'm proud of you all. If you keep this up, all of your dreams will come true, whether your dream is a Stanley Cup championship or the one involving the whipped cream and naked supermodels. Kisses, NJCroMag

Can’t find the tweet now but Palat was letting the team know they need to keep doing what they’re doing because the elimination games can be the hardest. His and Haulas experience are going to be even more important in game 6 and hopefully we don’t have to worry about a game 7.

Well damn. It’s true, and he’s now 6 behind Burke for 3rd

When it comes to development, I still think the insane amount of young talent was going to find a way to blossom...but like I said in other posts, I think Ruff definitely has a nurturing side that helped at times for sure. BUT, it's the bolded that is shutting his critics (I've obviously been one of the more vocal) right the fvck up. He's made key personnel decisions AND adjusted quite well to a Ranger gameplan that looked scary effective in those dual 5-1 losses. Not only have the Rangers not been able to do much of ANYTHING over the past three games, the Devils seem to be getting even BETTER at completely stifling everything that the Rangers are trying to do. That third period was as men-against-boys as it gets (though it was technically boys-against-men, heh heh), even if the Devils only managed the one empty-netter in that period. They're playing like they know what the Rangers are going to before the RANGERS do. There was a solid article in the NYP about all of the homework Lindy and his assistants did after those two brutal defeats, and man has that hard work paid off. Lindy deserves a ton of credit for what he's been able to do in helping to turn this series around so drastically. Some other random notes: I've barely noticed Lazar since he came into the lineup for Wood...and that's exactly the fvcking point. Fair to say that he doesn't get much TOI (though Wood wasn't either in this series), but more importantly, he brings NONE of the stupid that Wood did. Wood is definitely the more physically gifted player, but that means nothing when there's no hockey IQ whatsoever to go with it. Best of luck in future endeavors Miles...you brought some fun moments, but you can go be a big dumb animal somewhere else. Bahl is willing himself into being a gritty regular; "from within" solutions are always ideal. Smith as the cheap #7 that he was signed to be is tolerable. A defensive corp of Hamilton, Siegs, Marino, Luke, Nemec, and Bahl?! That's really friggin' good, and as Luke and Nemec settle in (and Bahl continues to develop), just...goddamn does the future look bright as fvck. Schmid...wow. Who knows how his story unfolds, but this is a hell of an introduction. On to Game 6!

Schmid:

2023 planking Champion Igor Shesterkin

4 wins in a row, after giving the Rags and their fanbase hope that this would be an easy series for them, would be one of my top moments as a Devils fan in the past decade. LGD.

17,114. For all the talk about seats available day of game, we posted the highest attendance at the Rock since the seating reconfiguration set capacity at 16,514.

Just heard Gomer make the comparison of Haula to John Madden. Hmm.... Glad to hear you had a great time. THAT is what makes worth every dime I'm sure.

She's def in playoff form tonight.

Bahl is becoming a fvcking player. Ya love to see it.

I can not believe how good Nico has been. His game has translated to the playoffs in an incredible way.

I can’t believe that one shift for Kevin Bahl. He destroyed everything in his path. The Taylor Hall trade looks better every day

Best game I've ever been to

What I do for this superstition stuff. I wanna watch sat night!

Ya’ll got any more of them Swiss hockey players?

Nico is an absolute warrior.

The na na na hey hey goodbye was directed at all the Ranger Fans headed to the exits not the Rangers. At least that was the impression I got of the stream of blue going up the steps.

Man what an absolutely fun game to have been at last night! Although I hated seeing so much blue in the arena, hopefully that’s the last of it for the season. This whole series I’ve felt a bit of anxiety with these games, but last night was worth every dollar. The team has to stay on top of them going back into the garden we don’t want a game 7 and this thing isn’t over yet. Fun fact, I was literally sitting right in front of @Colorado Rockies 1976 and had absolutely no idea until about an hr ago.

It’s a lazy trope, it wasn’t anywhere close to 50-50 in any of the three games, or 2012 for that matter. The only legit 50-50 games I’ve seen at the Rock were Game 5 in 2008 and Fan Depreciation Night at the end of the Lou era when they clowned us and clinched the President’s Cup.

This series in some ways is starting to remind me of the 1995 sweep of the Red Wings...ya gotta throw out the first two games of this series to do it, but there's similarites: Game 1 1995/Game 3 2023: Two very tight 2-1 road wins Game 2 1995/Game 4 2023: Another tight road win...Devils win 3-2 in 1995, and win 3-1 in 1995. Just like the last game, this one is close, and just like the Red Wings, the Rangers look like they're having trouble finding a way to bust through what's been thrown at them Game 3 1995/Game 5 2023: A 5-2 pasting in 1995 that was 5-0 before the Red Wings scored a couple of meaningless cosmetic goals that only served to make the game look closer than it ever truly was. The 2023 Devils win 4-0. Both the Red Wings and Rangers sound baffled and almost defeated despite neither series being done. Game 4 1995: The Red Wings threw everything that they had at the Devils in the first period, and even had a lead at one point (2-1), but the Devils would tie it up before the period ended. You could just see the Red Wings had this collective "We gave it every last bit and we couldn't even win the period?!" feel about them as the period drew to a close. The Devils would go on to win 5-2. For this Game 6, I expect the Rangers to do the same...come out desperate and hope to somehow get a lead and find a way to hang on, no matter how ragged they have to be to get there. If the Devils (and Schmid of course) can find some way to withstand that and either keep the game close or take a lead themselves...I can see the Rangers just crumbling completely as they realize they can't shake the Devils no matter what they do. But they gotta withstand those first 15-20 minutes. Give them nothing on which to build or feel good about.

Don’t take your foot off the gas, just go in there and play like you did the last 3 games. This isn’t over yet and we can not let them back into this series

Priceless!

I am so happy with how things have turned so suddenly in this series. Watching all the laughing, taunting and smiles by Rangers players for the first two games, as if, they had this in the bag. I hope Kreider remembers his stupid face early in game 5 taunting the Devils as crybabies. A win on Saturday will prove that not only skill and talent is needed to win in the playoffs, but character and heart are the intangibles that propel a team to glory! A win on Saturday will prove that physicality is not only making hits, but absorbing those hits. A win on Saturday will be one of the greatest chokes by an organization that believes star power wins championships. You can do it! Now you are in their heads. Play your game, stay cool and disciplined.

Had so much fun that I didn't have my phone out once during the game to browse here, absolutely love the fire in this team. Absolutely fantastic home game that our fans deserved. Wrap this sh!t up on Saturday cause I can only take so much stress. Love you Palat, I know I've been asking for awhile to get one for us, thank you, thank you, thank you! LETS GO DEVILS!!!

You would think something called “The Kid Line” could keep up with our team speed. They suck.

great Pics

ESPN desperate to show ANYTHING positive for the Rangers, resolve to showing the "promise" highlights... Devils score not a minute later. Love it.

This was the game to be at. Holy sh!t are we having fun. Lots of hockey left, but rangers fans are awfullyyyyyyyyyy quiet

Let's go boys - get this thing done. Rangers are reeling, without words after last night. They're down for the count - now step on their throats. LFGD!!!!

Our future is blindingly bright. Throw in a potential stud young goalie on top of that D corps and it’s like…wow. Re Lindy: He has performed a masterclass coaching clinic so far with adjustments and lineups and is making Gallant look like an amateur.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CrkDf6uOgOI/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= That might be my dad, sister and I on that first video lol. Was feeling it, not gonna lie

Erika is as hot as the team right now

Chico Resch is spot on his analysis. He said he doesn't see the Rangers making it to game 7. He said it was the Rangers best game. Based Chico

Bahl stepping up is incredible... think about what this defense looked like just a few years ago and now we're talking about having 3 possible great players ready to step in and having to let guys like Severson and Graves walk because of it. Insane.

This is like an 8-0 ass kicking so far if not for Shesterkin

Seves just commited highway robbery, that was hysterical

What a monster kill.

Timo is an absolute menace and I absolutely love it.