Devils-Rangers Playoff Series

Newark police say they'll be increasing security around the Prudential Center and are trying to reassure the public that the area is safe for the upcoming hockey playoffs following a spate of violent assaults that took place after a concert last week.

David Clarkson's deflected goal 2:31 into the third period snapped a tie and lifted the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers that evened the Eastern Conference finals at one game apiece on Wednesday night.

There's more than a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals at stake in the Round 3 series between the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers.

When the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1994 after 54 years, you would have thought the world had stopped.  I remember being at my girl friends apartment , watching the finals on ESPN and before the puck was dropped with little over a second left, going out to my car so that I could hear Marv Albert say the words I’d longed for since childhood. “The Rangers win the Stanley Cup” Who will ever forge

When you're in the Eastern Conference Finals, a bus ride across the river is a welcome change from the extra travel that normally comes with a seven game playoff series.  What isn't welcome, necessarily, is the fact that the rival fans have easy access to both venues. For the New Jersey Devils who have always struggled to fill the seats, this means droves of Rangers fans buying up tickets to the g

Rangers rookie Chris Kreider and defenseman Dan Girardi both had a goal and an assist in the third period, and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 21 shots for his fifth career playoff shutout, as weary New York opened the Eastern Conference finals with a 3-0 victory over the well-rested New Jersey Devils on Monday night.

Knee deep in the hoopla…besides being a line out the song, “We Built This City” and the title of the album from which it came, seems to be what all that’s going on with the start of the Eastern Conference finals between the Rangers and Devils tonight...

Rangers vs Devils is one of the greatest rivalries in the National Hockey League. New York and New Jersey have faced off five times in the playoffs, the Rangers have won four of those matchups, most recently in 2008.

Throw out all of the analysis and expert predictions. This is the NHL. This is the Stanley Cup Playoffs, consistently the most even field of playoff teams out of all four major sports.

It has been 18 years since the two Hudson River rivals met with a trip to play for Lord Stanley's Cup on the line, but the Devils and Rangers add a new chapter, beginning tonight, to a heated feud that really launched in 1994 with same stakes.