And they improve to 7-0 on the road!!! Just three short of the record of 10-0 at the beginning of the season. Salvador came to the bench favoring one leg and Lemaire was having "hot flashes." How could someone else get injured he was saying? But Salvador just twisted it and did not miss a shift in the game on Saturday afternoon. It was a solid game against Tampa on the Devils holiday. The decision to throw Clarkson out there for his first ever shootout attempt proved to be a great idea, personally I was hoping to see Bergfors out there but I was happy to see the deke by Clarkson and the flip over the goalies pad on the backhand shot.

With the Devils plagued with 2 big injuries to Pandolfo and Martin, and Oduya being day-to-day, they got GREAT news this morning. Elias has started practicing with the team as of Monday for the first time in over 5 months since his surgery! This is huge, the Devils have been scoring, but could use the boost of their all time leading scorer back in the lineup. The presence Elias brings to the ice is amazing, he brings leadership and consistency. With him and Langenbrunner in the lineup along with the rest of the veterans and "kids" the Devils will be one of the top 5 teams in the league.

All they got to do now is figure out how to win in front of the home crowd, and then they won't hear any complaints from Lemaire. Hes been happy with the team, except for the fact that they can not seem to produce and win at home. The Devils have been consistently good on the road in the past 10 years, but with the new arena they have to establish the Rock as a hard place to play for opposing teams. With the most state of the art arena in hockey its time to start proving they deserved it (Well Continental Arena was just as bad as the Coliseum) and can win there.

Big game Wednesday night at home, what team better to establish home winning against than the Capitals. And they could be without Ovie???? Week-to-week is his status right now, in my 21 years of life watching hockey I have never heard week-to-week before...You know what this means, it opens the door to Zach Parise to win the scoring title! One last thing, if I read one more Devils pregame or postgame report about how Marty is one shutout away or it got spoiled with like 10 or 15 minutes left in the game I am going to go nuts, just let it happens guys and it will come, when we stop talking about it, he'll string them together like they are nothing...