Martin Brodeur is no stranger to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
With his team up 3-0 just ten minutes into the game, the Canadian-born goaltender had to be feeling good about his team's chances. But that confidence slowly vanished as the Rangers managed a goal in the first, and a goal very early in the second and third periods to tie the game 3-3.
With the crowd chanting his name in jest, Brodeur did his best to maintain composure. Composure that is hard to come by when you can barely hear yourself think inside Madison Square Garden.
That's when the players in front of Brodeur took over for him.
The scoring came early and often in the opening period. Gionta, Elias, and Zajac all had goals on the formerly-solid Henrik Lundqvist in the first ten minutes of the game. That scoring would take a long hiatus that most likely scared the "Devil" out of New Jersey coach Peter DeBoer. Late in the third period though, all the offensive action finally came back to the stick of Carter with only 4 minutes and change left in the game.
Carter had the game-winning goal back in Game 2 for the Devils, and was a bit of an unlikely hero in Game 5. Although not the biggest name on the roster, Carter stepped up for the team when called upon and sent the Devils back to the Prudential Center in Jersey with a 3-2 series lead.
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