Potential GoY Candidate at Prudential Center

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Red Wings Escape By Skin of Teeth

NEWARK, NJ --- Tonight at the Prudential Center, something resembling a hockey team played against the reigning GDL Season 2 champion coach...and to everyone's surprise, a close game broke out!

Detroit headed to New Jersey thinking they were going to get an easy win, but in the shock of shockers, the Devils came to play tonight, and at times looked dominant against EricAnthony76's Red Wings. Unfortunately for the home crowd, their team was not able to get the win as they fell 2-1 to the Red Wings in front of a sold out Prudential Center. Mark Recchi took great passing from Dallas Drake and Ron Hextall en route to the game's first goal with 51 seconds left in the 2nd period. Usually, the Devils coach Tom Delgado would get entirely frustrated and order his team to press harder, but not tonight. He was surprisingly subdued after quickly being calmed down by assistant coach Richard Brodeur.

The Devils fought back with 3:12 left in the 3rd on a one-timer opportunity by Cam Neely, his 14th goal of the season, as he continues to prove to be a valuable asset to this Devils team. New Jersey continued to press the action, but only 32 seconds later, the excitement generated by the crowd was put out by a second Mark Recchi goal. Fans stayed until the end for the first time all season, urging their Devils to get a late equalizer, and they had a chance. Brian Bellows had an excellent pass to Cam Neely, but Neely put the shot wide of the net. Sergei Fedorov picked up the rebound, passed to Neely again, but Neely didn't get all of it and the save was successfully made by Ron Hextall, as the Red Wings hung on for a very tough 2-1 victory. It's the same old story of losing at the Prudential Center, but at least the Devils stood up and fought hard for once.

"This one hurts even more than the 6-4 loss to the Isles" Tom Delgado said after the loss. "We really worked our rears off to at least get a point, but we just couldn't get that equalizer. Hex was up to the task of stopping our attempts, he was like Fort Knox." Delgado added before retiring to his office to study game film for his next game.

Recchi's Pair Denies Devils First Win