When your a young team full of rookies and lose the last 5 games in the regular season going into a playoff senerio and then lose the MVP of your team in the first game its gotta be hard to get focused. If NY gets healthy and keeps up their stride into the playoffs this year they will have another veteran like shanahan and solid play from Avery and Luvndquivst (who happens to have about the same save percentage of Marty) I agree it will be way more interesting this year. Ny entered the playoffs last year in bad shape for sure. This year will hopefuly be different. Devils are a great playoff team though, can not take that from them. But thats why I would rather see Ny play the Devils than Atlanta,
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heres a cool link to get in the playoff mood, enjoy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pab978XyR3E