The New Jersey might not have the flashiest of skaters on the defense but the devils succeeded in getting the job done in front of a goalie Martine Brodeur. They defend by the committee and DeBoer says, “I think as a team we are being defended by the committee. We were moving up and down the ice and attacking and defending as a five man group.”

The devils allowed 22.7 shots per game in the playoffs. It was the lowest of all the remaining playoff teams. The people who bet on hockey game of devils just lot their game and money. The club yielded 2.46 goals per game. The Green says that we made many of the small games this year, which remained unnoticed during the year. He further included that we do not care about who is getting recognisation as long as we do not win the playoff games.

There were some also major contributions made by the Peter Harrold earlier in the playoffs. DeBoer was asked who he thinks to be a better leader of defensive corps. The Flyer has been completely frustrated from the defensive clinic that the Devils have exhibited in the last three games of their best of seven Eastern Semifinals.

The Devils handled the skillful Philadelphia forwards grabbing a 3-1 series. New Jersey had limited the Flyers only to single digit shots for nine out of the last 10 periods. It takes a whole team effort to put together that type of streak against a team, which averaged five goals in an opening round. Devils need to put the team effort it the game to show better results. Anyway, it was just waste of money for those who bet on hockey game.

The recent match held on Friday at Pittsburgh between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia finished off with Pittsburgh winning the game with a lead of 2-1. The players who gave their best and brought about this victory for the Pittsburgh Penguins are, Jordon Staal, Marc Andre Fleury and Tyler Kennedy.

Fleury exhibited his excellent defending skills by saving 24 hits. Staal scored a goal after having made a hat trick in the previous game. Pittsburgh thus saved their elimination by beating the Pennsylvania Flyers.

After their amazing victory Staal in an interview mentions, “We are still in such position where we need to fight.” Fleury’s performance improved as the matches went by and he was at his best this game.  He defended his team excellently and preserved the dominance of his team the entire match.

Hartnell, the forward player of the Flyers said, “Fleury made an astonishing performance and his presence is sure to make difference in the forthcoming matches.” But the players of Pennsylvania team are very much confident about their abilities to turn round in the series.

Coach of the Flyers team, Peter Laviolette, told in a speech, “our team failed to get past their defense. The upcoming matches need more hard work and confidence.” They lost the previous two matches and yet are boiling with confidence and urge to win. The coach said, “I was pretty confident today that our boy will put up some fight and they did. The result is whatsoever not the one we expected.”

Staal praises his team mate Kennedy and said, “He is a great player and knows his part that he has to play whenever the situation demands. His shots were those of quality players and the goals he made changed the match for us.”

The penguins are trying their best to end up as the fourth best team in the NHL hockey records. They came round in the series even if they lagged behind by 3-0 in the series. Sidney Crosby heartily talked about the game and the player who played the most important role in their victory. He said, “Fleury was in great form in the field. The result of the game is solely due to his incredible defensive skills that saved many goals of the opposition team.”

Dan Bylsma, the Penguin coach sounded satisfied and confident. He said,” we have players performing well and playing hard for their team. I am positive about the game 6 and I am confident that positive results will come up in the upcoming matches.”

In a match on 21st April 2012, Nashville Predators team overthrew the Red Wings of Detroit. The match was immensely exciting and ended with a score of 2-1. The star player of the game was David Legwand who changed the fate of the game at the very last moment. This win made a severe blow on the Detroit team as they got eliminated from the Western Conference Quarterfinal tournament.

Nashville has always performed its best against Detroit ever since it has become the member of NHL Hockey association. The coach of the Nashville team, Barry Trotz, said, “Legwand played unimaginably well with a passion and his performance showed how competitive he is on the field.”

The coach overwhelmed with the player’s performance said in an interview, “I always believed in him and his potential. I was very confident that he would perform well this season and he proved me right.” According to the coach, Legwand was the one player who brought about a difference in the game.

This win also made the Predators win the series. The coach of the Red Wings, Detroit, was straight forward in his answer and said, “Our team did not play well against Nashville and this difference was hugely visible due to the absence of Darren Helm.” “Even if I tried to try out various combinations and experiments none of these clicked and proved to be beneficial for the team.”

Mike Babcock, the Detroit coach, never forgot to give credit to the Nashville team for their win. He said, “Their defense was impenetrable, their team has excellent players and this went against our team.” But the coach was depressed as well as it was the first time in the last 6 years the Detroit got out from the series in the first round.

Due to their win the Nashville players were at high spirits after the match. They celebrated their victory in the dressing room. But the Nashville captain said, “We cannot get too confident due to this tough win. There are many more games to be played against many tougher teams. So this celebration is just to imbue the players. This little encouragement is sure to help us in the coming matches next week.”

The Nashville coach believes their past performances after such victories were not satisfactory at all and so the players will learn from the past and control their excitement on time.

The match was resolved only when some extra periods were granted and Nashville was always in the lead. Babcock, the Detroit team’s coach expressed his disappointment at the loss of his team.

Phoenix Coyotes acquired Mike Smith to be the first ranked Goalie who actually paved the way for his team to get back to play offs of Stanley Cup. However, Erick Karlsson on the north hand plays the role of giving a top flight threat to the team Ottawa Senators just from the blue line. Stamkos was the real hero for the team Tampa bay as he cared for nothing else during league matches, except scoring goals.
All theses players did such good jobs in the month of February that last week they have been honored with the memorable Three Stars of NHL.

Smith, who was the first star, actually own the entire of his players starts for the last month just because of relocating a 1.42 goals against standard and also for stopping 315 of the 331 shots with a save percentage rate of .952.When Ilya Bryzgaloy left the team Philadelphia, this player joined the team at the month of  summer and succeeded to set a charter record for successive wins along with a personal record of shutout stripe that helped the team to get 12th place during the start of the Pacific Division Lead  at its Western Conference. In the final game of the last month the player succeed to stop 39 shots out of 40 to lead the team Coyotes into 2-1 victory when it was playing against the team West Champion Canucks. This charming performance was enough for Smith to achieve a star from the NHL which is good sign of success and the marked the growth of the player.

Karlsson, who was the second star winner was planning to concretize his resume to get selected as the top graded candidate for the Norris Trophy, though it was just the players third season in the NHL league.  This young player succeeded to lead all renowned defense man of the league with his good 66 points and is also holding the second position that is next to Henrick Sedin, with his 51 assists. Though the month started with a slow move for this defender, yet at the last it worked and he got what he wanted to achieve from the NHL league.

It is now easy to guess that Stamkos was the third star who fired the field by scoring goals after goals while playing with Eastern Conference. He actually took the drivers seat and with an outstanding performance moved towards the way of claming the Rocket Richard trophy.