Henrik Lundqvist blamed himself for the Dainius Zubrus‘ game-winning deflection in front off Zach Parise’s left wing drive that gave the Devils a 3-2 lead at 7:51 of the third.
“I cheated too much,” The King said. “The guy [Zubrus] that came from behind the net, I don’t know what happened. . . . I expected him to make a different play. . . . I don’t know what, but I should have been more aggressive.”
Dan Girardi was next to Zubrus when he scored. Girardi was beaten on Parise’s game-opening score and on Nicklas Bergfors‘ redirect that made it 2-0 in the first after Marc Staal’s neutral zone turnover.
“The first two goals, we had our people back [but] they just skated by us,” Tortorella said. Parise’s goal, Danny is matched up and just lets him go and lets [Parise] behind. It wasn’t an out-manned type situation. We just misread the play.”
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The Blueshirts were shorthanded just once after facing 42 kills in previous seven games. Rangers were 1-for-3 on the power play and are 12-for-35 since opening 0-for-9 first two matches. . . . The Blueshirts have been outscored 4-1 in last two third periods after having outscored opponents 14-3 over first eight games. . . . the Rangers are in Montreal tomorrow night.