Read: The Devils Want To End The Rangers Season
The Rangers play the second of back to backs against close rivals tonight as they cross the river into New Jersey.
In the New York Post, Mark Everson writes of how the Devils want to put an end to the Rangers playoffs hopes:
“Getting the center of attention for hockey would be nice for us,” Martin Brodeur said. “It goes two ways. One, it would be nice for hockey. We want to grow it and there would be more attention.
“But they’re eating our fan base, and if they’re not there, it’s better for us,” he added. “And I wouldn’t count them out. They have a lot of good players.”
….Puh-leeze Marty. The Rangers are taking the Devils fan base? The Devils have won three Stanley Cups, two during seasons the Rangers didn’t make the playoffs and still haven’t developed enough of a fan base to sell out The Rock. You have had your chances Marty, and it hasn’t gone that way.
“It’s more important that we go into the playoffs playing well,” Dainius Zubrus said. “Along the way, if they [the Rangers] don’t make it, good. I don’t wish bad for others as much as good for ourselves.”
Then he came clean.
“Don’t get me wrong. We don’t like them,” Zubrus said. “I don’t like them.”
…It’s on.
For a report on Devils practice from this morning, check out Fire and Ice
