NEWARK, N.J. -- Of course it had to happen here.
For the better part of two decades, anytime the Penguins would perch a little too highly, anytime they'd get too fancy or finesse-happy, this was the place that would root them right back in reality. That's all it would take. One miserable evening in the Meadowlands, and they'd be reminded of how hard hockey is for all the rest.
Well, hello again, New Jersey!
Goals: Devils 3, Penguins 1.
Shots: Devils 38, Penguins 16.
Assessment: Big-time bitter.
"We didn't have it tonight. At all," Justin Schultz was telling me in a locker room where all concerned seemed to be racing for the exits. "We got outworked. They were the better team. That's a good team over there. They were ready, and I don't think we were."
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