Devils breeze past New York Rangers 4-0

New Jersey Devils won 4-0 over the New York Rangers on Monday night in an entertaining first-round playoff series. Akira Schmid was unexpected hero as he rebounded from his only bad game and made 31 saves in Game 7 to lead his team to victory.

Michael McLeod and Tomas Tatar scored second-period goals in the series decider and Erik Haula and Jesper Bratt added insurance goals in the third.

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