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Can anyone provide a good picture of the exterior (that would be outside shot) of the Meadowlands Arena...aka CAA??? If so will you please post?

Post em...please!!!!

NEVER have I been prouder to call myself a New Jersey Devils fan - NEVER! They went into the fire and came out with the win!!! I was SHOCKED that Stevens even touched the east trophy let alone picked it upi and skated with it. I was also disgusted that ESPN chose to show the Senators anguish much more than anything resembling a tremendous GUTTY Devils victory celebration. Sorry ESPN. The Devils are there...A G A I N!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in. Devils 2-1. Stanley cup game one at home on Tuesday night versus Ducks. Book it.

I have no idea what Devils team has been out on the ice for the last two games - but the Devils team we have been seeing is not the Devils team that plays typical "Devils hockey". Game 7 if there is an upside to this loss this evening, will force the Devils to go back to playing the kind of "tight and right" hockey that makes thi steam so effective and so maddening to play against. My biggest concern is the collective mindset of the team right now...I want to know if they are confident, or if they feel as though they have reached the end of the rope. Do they feel they can truly win in Ottawa on Friday. After game one, sombody in here made an excellent point in regard to a message I left concerning what i felt was a brutal game one loss. Someone said that, "no team responds to a loss like the Devils". If that is true, then the Jersey boys have a chance to make that their signature by pulling it out of the fire on Friday night. Burns and Lamoriello have much "head work" to do before the puck drops later this week. Stevens and Daneyko need impassioned pleas in that locker room. Lastly, will someone please kidnap Gary Thorne on his way out of the building tonight? Ever since this schmuck started doing the games on ESPN the Devils have tumbled downward. Get Steve Levy back now! Thoughts?

Jimmy I hope you are right and you and I and every Devils fan on this board is lighting a victory cigar come Friday evening. I just don't have that feeling. I'll tell ya htis...IF Devils win, they'll do it by a 2-1 score...if not they'll get blown out by four or five goals...I thnink Ottawa is wishing they could play the game right now. They'll look to steamroll on Friday from the word go. Remember Detroit 7-Colorado-0??? This is what I fear.

Jimmy you're nuts my friend. This series was concluded this evening. They're done...and Holik is very happy bout' now.

RD technically it is not...but if you are like me, this third period feels as though it has only 10 minutes on the clock instead of 20. Ottawa is in their locker room right now realizing that the dream is almost complete. They can taste what they are about to do. The Devils are weak...wobbly...they have had zero game tonight. The Senataors know they can win this series now. The Devils are doubting everything that gave them a 3-1 series lead. I am also puzzled as to why Burns has messed with his lines so much in this game. Too much of an overreaction to a game 5 loss in my opinion.

Give the Senators credit. They Devils cannot put them away. They have outplayed the Devs since the opening drop of the puck. Game 7 will be a doozy - and I'm starting to feel like Flyers fans did a few short seasons ago. You can almost feel the collapse being complete.

Dano in or out for game six? Will it make a difference. Personally I wouldn't care if they put Phil Russell back out there on Wednesday...just win the game and get us to the finals!

Brainlock!!!! Make that June 2001!!!! June 2000 was pretty darn sweet.

The Last Time? June 2000...Pepsi Center...Denver, Colorado.

Will game one of the finals be Saturday night at CAA?

I thought the Devils played by far their worst game of the series...I also thought the officiating was horrendous. Devs had a chance obviously to put this one to bed...seemed to me that they expected the Sens to mail it in and just give it to them. Game six is indeed huge...I believe if they lose it they'll also lose the series. Momentum has swung...game six will be interesting. If I am a Sens fan right now I am feeling good...If I am Devils fan (and I am since 82-83) I am somewhat nervous and I am. Bad loss.

The two big papers in NY with both Devils beat writers having the same last name. Are they related? Also, how tough it must be for Mark (N)Єverson to sit through a playoof season that has to be absolute torure on his soul, eh? This guy who dreads anything positive happening to the Devils has to stick around and watch this team go for another cup...something that must keep him up at night with anxiety. Serious question though all saracsm aside: Why does this guy hate the Devils as much as his wrting obviously reflects? I realize he's a Rangers fan but come on man! Get off the beat next year if all this "winning" bothers you Mark.

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 Ottawa building itself a dynasty By Mike ULMER, Ottawa Sun Canadians have long accepted the Edmonton Oilers as our final hockey dynasty. The Leafs and Canadiens rarely have seemed so removed from a Stanley Cup, let alone a series of them. While the strong season turned in by the Canucks is encouraging, Robson St. in Vancouver won't be seeing a parade soon. This, Canadians are reminded, is a U.S.-based league, with players who would rather live in Phoenix or Philadelphia than Calgary or Edmonton. When the Oilers traded Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles in 1988, Canada's fate as a producer but never a harvester of talent seemed assured. I'm starting to wonder about that. They have something going here in Ottawa. First, the disclaimer. It is, of course, ridiculously early to compare the Senators with Gretzky and the Mark Messier-led Oilers clubs that captured five Stanley Cups from 1983-90. The Senators are in their first conference final. They have won nothing. It has been said that teams such as the Oilers appear once a generation. Forget it. They happen, in the new parity-driven NHL, once in a lifetime. Now, the trio of Cups won by Detroit over the past seven years makes it the hands-down Hockeytown. Two makes the Avalanche a power. But the Wings and Avalanche will be increasingly crippled by age. With a nod to Western Conference finalists the Wild and Mighty Ducks and the surprisingly good Stars, there really is no Western team laden with brilliant young players. Same thing in the East except, that is, in Ottawa. The Senators will never be as good as the Oilers were. But neither will anyone else and Ottawa could get closer than virtually any other franchise. The Senators have five defencemen, Zdeno Chara, Wade Redden, Chris Phillips, Anton Volchenkov and Karel Rachunek who are under 27 years old. How good will this group be in two or three more years as they lock step into their most productive years? Ottawa's best player, Marian Hossa, is 24. Martin Havlat, one of the league's most charismatic talents, is 22. Their goalie, 28-year-old Patrick Lalime, is entering his prime. Jason Spezza, a former first overall choice with an absolutely brilliant offensive mind, is 22. The Senators are gaining enormous momentum as an organization. Yes, they lost three consecutive playoffs to the Maple Leafs, but last year's team finished tied for 13th overall. This year the Sens finished first and have dispatched the Islanders and Flyers without really being tested. They will be pushed, of course, by the Devils, but the Senators are a team poised to be among the league's elite. Ottawa's average age of 27.3 is a full three years younger than that of the Devils. And the Sens now have one advantage the Oilers did not possess: A billionaire owner. Peter Pocklington was a car dealer and entrepreneur whose hockey team stood out as his principal holding. When business went bad elsewhere, he sold off assets, his players, beginning of course with Gretzky. MONEY NOT AN ISSUE To Eugene Melnyk, a pharmaceutical maven whose principal residence is the tax-friendly Barbados, the Senators are a hobby. It is, I have been assured, very difficult to blow more than a $1 billion. Melnyk is 43, he will be around for a while. Player salaries, the one factor that could unseat the Senators, now becomes a non-issue. Melnyk doesn't have to bring free agents to Ottawa. He doesn't even necessarily need to keep the ones he has. But he can if he wants to and that radically changes the prospectus for the organization. In a league bleeding red ink, the Senators have a bargain-basement lineup. They possess the foremost collection of ready for prime-time players in the league and they now have the means to keep their core intact for as long as they like. They have a solid draft record and an enviable management group. They have tasted enough playoff failure to make it permanently unpalatable. They are vaulting toward the Stanley Cup final, if not this season, then very soon. That sounds an awful lot like the raw materials for a dynasty to me.

If I may actually be permitted to star a thread on my own without penelty...this was a horrible loss. I guess we should all be used to this given the Devils terrible OT record n the post-season. When you fall behind like the Devils did, and then come back, you HAVE to win the game after tying it up - you have to! BTW can someone give Oleg a ticket out of town...can the Devils please leave him behind in Ottawa? Marty outplays Lalime and then they give it away at the end...right after Nieds leaves the game. A most disturbing trend considering their similar fold job after Stevens went down in the TB series. Win game two...or get ready for next year as far as I'm concerned.

Just to change things up for a second here. Someone a few weeks ago posted an active video link to the "Meadowlands Xanadu Plan", which to me looked to be an outstanding alternative to a Newark Arena - or any arena anywhere else. Was this plan actually presented...was it rejected, embraced...we'll get back to you guys later on this...? What? Anyone know?

Is it me...or are the games broadcast on TV from the CAA, very dark and dreary - and has anyone noticed how the camera gives coverage of play on the ice from what seems as far away as Pluto? Very annoying. At oposing arenas the arena appears well lit -bright- nice...and the camera angles are sooo much closer to the ice surface. Thoughts?

They should lower the roof and take out approximately 2500 seats. The building would be more intimate and would be louder with a lowered ceiling. Thoughts? The heck with Newark. They have so much room to build around the arena, they could have shops, stores, etc. Could be an ideal place the only thing lacking is vision and leadership.

Devils will win the East and meet Vancouver in the finals.