It was in the Boston series that Daneyko sat for the first time in the playoffs. But the leadership at the time of Stevens, Niedermayer, Rafalski, and Daneyko had these players focused every night. He later became the captain of the Devils. Jamie Langennbruner established himself as a leader on the Devils that season. With the late Pat Burns behind the bench, the Devils were clicking on all cylinders that season. Thus Lamoriello felt changes needed to happen.
The Devils lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in the first round of the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs. It was a deal that general manager Lou Lamoriello thought needed to be done. It was a different team than in previous years as changes started at the 2002 NHL Draft when the Devils traded for Jeff Friesen and Oleg Tverdovsky in exchange for Petr Sykora. Along the way to the Stanley Cup, the Devils defeated the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Senators, and Anaheim Mighty Ducks. New Jersey won the Atlantic Division with a record of 42-20-10-6. The 2003 New Jersey Devils finished second in the Eastern Conference behind the Senators with 108 points. Friesen had several big goals for the Devils including the game-winning goal against the Ottawa Senators in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final. Unfortunately, several members of the team including general manager Lou Lamoriello, Jeff Friesen, John Madden, and Jay Pandolfo could not make the event. There were 18 members on hand from the 2003 Stanley Cup Championship team including Tommy Albelin, Jiri Bicek, Martin Brodeur, Sergei Brylin, Line Burns (wife of late head coach Pat Burns), Bob Carpenter (assistant coach), Ken Daneyko, Patrik Elias, Brian Gionta, Scott Gomez, Jamie Langenbrunner, Grant Marshall, Scott Niedermayer, Joe Nieuwendyk, Brian Rafalski, Mike Rupp, Scott Stevens, Turner Stevenson and Colin White. But you can check this for the original link: Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Doc Z and JT Pepper bring you select Wildcat boys and girls home basketball radio broadcasts on 107.Jim and Chris recap a wild first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and Tucker Bright paced Alpena, scoring a team high 11 points and was the lone Wildcat in double figures on the night.Īlpena’s next chance to snap the lengthy losing streak will be when the Wildcats return to the court on Tuesday and welcome Sault Ste.
0-4 BNC) only managed to score two points in the opening quarter, falling behind and were unable to muster enough offense as the shots wouldn’t fall and the Blue Devil defense clamped down, making life difficult for the Wildcats on their home court.Ī 21 point second half was not nearly enough for Alpena as the Wildcats continue to struggle on both ends of the court and nothing has been going right during their recent skid. The Alpena High boys basketball team has been unable to shake their current losing streak and Friday night, things didn’t get any better for the Wildcats as a slow start proved to be costly as Alpena dropped its seventh straight game, falling to Gaylord (6-4, 1-4) in the teams’ annual ‘Pink Game’ by a final of 56-38 in a battle between a pair of teams searching for their first Big North Conference victory of the year.
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