You want opponents to be intimidated from the moment they step on the ice until the postgame moment they take their skate of shame through the Zamboni entrance.
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Welcome to the end of the 2021 regular season for the East Division. For three teams, their seasons ended on Saturday. However, Coronavirus impacting has forced the league’s hand to re-schedule games and so there are a handful happening in the next few days. As it turned out, most of those games have meaning beyond the regular season. Where in past seasons, I would end the weekly snapshots with the final full week of the season. But as there were potentially real tantalizing stakes in all but one of these extra games, I decided on this one last post and stated so in last week’s snapshot. After a week of playoff teams playing non-playoff teams in the East and a whole lot of news involving the New York Rangers, the potential stakes mostly went up in smoke, but there is something to watch on Monday and Tuesday.
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The New Jersey Devils will be on the road to end their 2021 season. Tonight, they will be at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum for the next-to-last-time. The New York Islanders have turned it into Fort Neverlose 2.0 and have a lot to play for. Especially as they dropped two games in Buffalo of all places. Here goes something.
The Matchup: The New Jersey Devils at the New York Islanders (SBN Blog: Lighthouse Hockey)
The Time: 7:00 PM ET
The Broadcasts: TV - MSG+, MSG+ 2; Digital Audio - The Devils Hockey Network (Radio.com)
The Song for the Evening: This is not just the end of the Devils’ time at Nassau, but tonight and Saturday’s games are the last two regular season home games at the old building for the Islanders. It took an incredible amount of time, energy, frustration, stress, campaigns, and multiple owners (and almost a fake one) for the Islanders to move out of Nassau County for good and remain on the Island proper. I am sure
In the sixteenth weekly East Divison snapshot of the 2020-21 NHL season, the Pittsburgh Penguins took the throne, the New Jersey Devils finally won a game, and the playoff teams all have something to play for in the final full week of the season in the East. All this and more in this week’s snapshot.