A year after Garden punch-up, Battle of the Hudson is nearly unrecognizable
NY Post
The one-year anniversary of Fight Night at the Garden precedes a fourth and final regular-season meeting between the Rangers and Devils on Saturday that couldn’t be more different than the thrilling bout of last season.
The teams sit in almost completely opposite positions than last April 3, when a five-on-five line brawl broke out off the opening faceoff at Madison Square Garden before the Rangers emerged with a 4-3 win.
It was a highly anticipated game on the 2023-24 season calendar after Matt Rempe — ejected in the previous two clashes at the time for hits that sidelined Devils players — earned a four-game suspension for elbowing Devils defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler less than a month earlier.
Broadcast cameras were focused solely on the then-rookie, as both teams trotted out their fourth lines.
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Peter Laviolette chuckled as a grin started to spread across his face.
David Peterson bent over behind the mound in Sunday’s fifth inning, giving the appearance of perhaps a back ailment.
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So, another game like this winds up in the void column, with a void of scoring accompanied by a void of emotion, and you can select which is the chicken and which is the egg in this scenario.
Carlos Mendoza thought about it.
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