Know THE Enemy – Devils vs New York Ra*g**s
A few notes and stats to get you caught up on today’s opponent –
Devils (23-30-4 / 13-13-3 at home) vs Rangers (31-24-4 / 17-12-1 on the road):
- Game info: 7:00 p.m. start time at Prudential Center. TV: MSG+ (HD) RADIO: WFAN 660 AM
- For tickets and ticket price data for this game, click here.
- Johan Hedberg will get the start in goal. He’s 11-5-2 with a 2.17 GAA and .928 Sv% in 18 career games against the Rangers.
- The Devils have 17 points in their last 10 games.
- Ilya Kovalchuk has 18 points (10g-8a) in his last 16 games. The Devils are 13-1-2 in those 16 games.
- Kovalchuk is on an eight game points streak. He has 10 points (6g-4a) in those eight games. He also has goals in three consecutive games and has three game-winning goals during the streak.
- Brian Rolston has 16 points (7g-9a) in the Devils’ last 16 games. He has three game-winning goals during that stretch.
- This is the fifth of six meetings between the teams this season. The Devils are 1-3 in the previous four meetings.
- Rangers are in 3rd place in the Atlantic, 7th place in the Eastern conference, and in 16th place in NHL overall.
| Rags | Stats | Devils |
| 59 | GP | 57 |
| 31 | W | 23 |
| 24 | L | 30 |
| 4 | OT | 4 |
| 66 | P | 50 |
| 0.559 | P% | 0.439 |
| 2.71 | G/G | 2.12 |
| 2.46 | GA/G | 2.79 |
| 16.3 | PP% | 14.0 |
| 83.8 | PK% | 83.2 |
| 29.7 | S/G | 29.0 |
| 29.7 | SA/G | 27.3 |
| 46.6 | FO% | 51.6 |
2010-2011 Rangers
| # | Pos | Player | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% |
| 17 | C | Brandon Dubinsky | 54 | 19 | 24 | 43 | 2 | 72 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 140 | 13.6 |
| 10 | R | Marian Gaborik | 45 | 17 | 21 | 38 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 140 | 12.1 |
| 21 | C | Derek Stepan | 59 | 15 | 18 | 33 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 120 | 12.5 |
| 42 | C | Artem Anisimov | 59 | 13 | 18 | 31 | -2 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 138 | 9.4 |
| 24 | R | Ryan Callahan | 39 | 15 | 15 | 30 | -1 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 114 | 13.2 |
| 22 | C | Brian Boyle | 59 | 19 | 10 | 29 | 5 | 42 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 159 | 11.9 |
| 86 | L | Wojtek Wolski | 52 | 9 | 17 | 26 | -1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 94 | 9.6 |
| 5 | D | Dan Girardi | 57 | 3 | 21 | 24 | 6 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 3.5 |
| 18 | D | Marc Staal | 59 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 40 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 89 | 7.9 |
| 16 | L | Sean Avery | 59 | 2 | 19 | 21 | -1 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 114 | 1.8 |
| 8 | L | Brandon Prust | 59 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 1 | 126 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 66 | 12.1 |
| 19 | L | Ruslan Fedotenko | 48 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 10.0 |
| 31 | L | Alex Frolov | 43 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 78 | 9.0 |
| 26 | C | Erik Christensen | 42 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 10.5 |
| 36 | L | Mats Zuccarello | 24 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 7.0 |
| 4 | D | Michael Del Zotto | 43 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -5 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 3.5 |
| 97 | D | Matt Gilroy | 43 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 67 | 4.5 |
| 38 | D | Michael Sauer | 53 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 3.0 |
| 23 | C | Chris Drury | 23 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0.0 |
| 44 | D | Steve Eminger | 50 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.3 |
| 20 | C | Vinny Prospal | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 11.1 |
| 12 | C | Todd White | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 |
| 94 | L | Derek Boogaard | 22 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25.0 |
| 27 | D | Ryan McDonagh | 18 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 |
| 45 | C | Kris Newbury | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 |
| 25 | C | Chad Kolarik | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 |
| R | Jeremy Williams | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 39 | C | Brodie Dupont | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 |
| 91 | C | Evgeny Grachev | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 |
| 32 | R | Dale Weise | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 |
| # | Goalie | GPI | GS | Min | GAA | W | L | OT | SO | SA | GA | Sv% | G | A | PIM |
| 30 | Henrik Lundqvist | 45 | 44 | 2637 | 2.39 | 23 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 1319 | 105 | .920 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 43 | Martin Biron | 17 | 15 | 928 | 2.13 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 426 | 33 | .923 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NEW JERSEY Devils vs. NEW YORK Rangers
All-Time regular season record vs Rangers:
(W – L – T – OT L – SO L)
77 – 69 – 21 – 2 – 5
Goals for: 532 Goals against: 554
All-Time post season record vs Rangers:
12 – 16
Goals for: 75 Goals against: 79
Home games vs Rangers: 55 – 39 – 4 – 0 – 3
Road games vs Rangers: 34 – 46 – 17 – 2 – 2
Last season: 3 – 3
Oct 5, 2009 @ NJ – NY Rangers 3 – 2 New Jersey
Oct 22, 2009 @ NYR – New Jersey 4 – 2 NY Rangers
Jan 12, 2010 @ NYR – New Jersey 1 – 0 NY Rangers (SO)
Feb 6, 2010 @ NYR – NY Rangers 3 – 1 New Jersey
Mar 10, 2010 @ NJ – New Jersey 6 – 3 NY Rangers
Mar 25, 2010 @ NJ – NY Rangers 4 – 3 New Jersey 3 (SO)
This season: 1 – 3
Sunday October 24th, 2010 – NJ 1 – 3 Rangers
Friday November 5th, 2010 – Rangers 3 – 0 NJ
Wednesday December 29th, 2010 – Rangers 3 – 1 NJ
Thursday February 3rd, 2011 – NJ 3 – 2 Rangers
Friday February 18th, 2011 – Rangers at NJ
Saturday April 9th, 2011 – NJ at Rangers
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