A Year After Garden Punch-up, Battle Of The Hudson Is Nearly Unrecognizable
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tRY IT NOWThe 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.
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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.
