After an emotional win against Anaheim on Friday night, the Devils were unable to get a winning streak going in Los Angeles losing 3-1 to the Kings. The Kings got goals from Justin Williams, Michal Handzus, and Jarret Stoll while Matt Taormina scored for the Devils. The Devils power play, offense and Marty Brodeur continued to struggle this early in the season. Jonathan Quick was the story tonight turning away 39 out of 40 Devils shots. So, the story of this early season is that the Devils have been making goaltenders look amazing like Craig Anderson, Tim Thomas and Henrik Lundqvist.
The Power play went 0-2 tonight and the Devils have only 18 goals as a team this year, which is worst in the NHL. A very unacceptable start for a first class organization. They are now 3-8-1, and what sums everything up is injuries, ineffective play and salary cap problem and tonight's injury to Zach Parise sums the whole early season up for the Devils. Parise did not play in the third period after falling awkwardly late in the second appearing to favor his groin or knee. However, team officials are saying its a lower body injury. Parise will fly back to New Jersey to be evaluated by team doctors to determine extent of injury. He will not play in Vancouver and will likely miss Wednesday's game in Chicago. Based on what I saw, it seems that it could be a tweak in the knee and the Devils are erring on the side of caution since it is still early on in the season. Now the question is, who do the Devils call up? It is possible that it could be Mattias Tedenby this time, but Vladimir Zharkov is the likely favorite.
The Parise injury kind of gave me a thought, if the Devils are having so much problems scoring with Parise and Kovalchuk on the same team, it cannot possibly get any worse. Maybe they can find each other and feed off everyone and find a way to overcome this disastrous start so that when Parise does come back, everyone will have already bonded. Enough of this losing.
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