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Lundqvist struggles as Devils run over Rangers
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May 25, 2012, Friday
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THE New York Rangers played their best game of the postseason against the New Jersey Devils but unfortunately, it was a night that goalie Henrik Lundqvist played his worst.
Call it bad timing. Bad bounces. Bad luck. Whatever. The bottom line is the regular season's best team in the Eastern Conference is on the brink of elimination in the conference finals.
Lundqvist gave up a postseason-high four goals on only 16 shots and the Devils won 5-3 to move within a game of reaching the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 2003. Lundqvist felt he didn't play a bad game. Luck, though, clearly wasn't on the Swede's side.
And that hurt, especially after his teammates rallied from a 0-3 deficit and tied the game early in the third.
"You want to come up with the saves when the team needs you," said Lundqvist, who has given up seven goals in the past two games. "We did so many good things, and as a goalie, you appreciate how hard the guys worked to get back in the game. You just wish it didn't end the way it did. We did so many good things. I thought we had this one.
"Again, we came up a little short."
When asked if he was questioning himself about the goals, Lundqvist said no.
"My luck maybe," he said. "I was right there for the first shot, especially on the second one, but I was little slow to react to it, even though I was in good position. After that, it was a just all of us. We did so many good things. It's a tough-and-frustrating end to the game.
"I didn't expect that to happen."
Call it bad timing. Bad bounces. Bad luck. Whatever. The bottom line is the regular season's best team in the Eastern Conference is on the brink of elimination in the conference finals.
Lundqvist gave up a postseason-high four goals on only 16 shots and the Devils won 5-3 to move within a game of reaching the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 2003. Lundqvist felt he didn't play a bad game. Luck, though, clearly wasn't on the Swede's side.
And that hurt, especially after his teammates rallied from a 0-3 deficit and tied the game early in the third.
"You want to come up with the saves when the team needs you," said Lundqvist, who has given up seven goals in the past two games. "We did so many good things, and as a goalie, you appreciate how hard the guys worked to get back in the game. You just wish it didn't end the way it did. We did so many good things. I thought we had this one.
"Again, we came up a little short."
When asked if he was questioning himself about the goals, Lundqvist said no.
"My luck maybe," he said. "I was right there for the first shot, especially on the second one, but I was little slow to react to it, even though I was in good position. After that, it was a just all of us. We did so many good things. It's a tough-and-frustrating end to the game.
"I didn't expect that to happen."
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