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New Jersey Devils at Detroit Red Wings - Game 2 (1995 Stanley Cup Final) [COMPLETE COVERAGE]

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Jim Dowd scores the game-winner with less than two minutes to go, helping the Devils to a 4-2 victory and a 2-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup Final.

Scott Niedermayer scores a beautiful goal in the third period and adds two assists for New Jersey, while Sergei Fedorov tallies a goal and an assist for the Red Wings. Martin Brodeur (NJ) out-duels Mike Vernon (DET) to get the win in net.

Complete coverage of the game includes:
ESPN's "Quest for the Cup" pre-game show, which includes Darren Pang interviewing Detroit's Mike Vernon and a segment highlighting the play of New Jersey's Claude Lemieux
Complete commercial-free Game 2 (opening faceoff at 31:22)
First intermission including highlights and analysis from Mike Milbury, Barry Melrose and Darren Pang, plus a segment covering Mario Lemieux returning to the NHL after taking a year off.
Second intermission including highlights and analysis
ESPN's postgame coverage, which features highlights and analysis plus an interview with Jim Dowd and a discussion about the rule regarding the referee's discretion to blow a play dead when a player is injured and his team doesn't control the puck.

Game originally played on June 20, 1995 and broadcast nationally on ESPN, featuring commentary by Gary Thorne and Bill Clement.

20 Comments

@timburr4453 2 years ago

ESPN used to do such a great job with hockey. Top notch video quality for the time and great analysts...and of course Gary Thorne's powerful voice and Clement providing commentary.

@TaxmanTV 2 years ago (edited)

31:48 may have actually been the pivotal point in this entire series that will never get discussed on TV. Stevens gets banged and roughed up, helmet taken off, out of frustration hits Ciccarelli and takes a penalty. You can tell how angry Stevens was after that play & his vengeance was brewing hard. Later in the game he gives one of the hardest hits in NHL history on Kozlov.. knocks a key scorer out of the game (and was a non-factor in games 3 & 4 due to the hit aftermath) and his NJ teammates rallied from that.

@crawford371 5 years ago

RIP John Saunders

@fantasticvoyage262 4 years ago

I remember watching this at a relative's house. It was the first Stanley Cup Finals game I ever watched. And it was a big talking point after the game if the refs should have stopped play after Coffey got hurt on the game winning goal.

@1161byron 8 months ago

The whole series was one of the best

@BurnellBrownIII 5 years ago

1:42:22.....Favorite team vs favorite hitter :(

@davidbehman212 6 years ago

Great upload!

@StFidjnr 4 years ago

1:43:33 while they are focusing on the hittee the hit in question is clean

@gyulatakacs1824 2 years ago

Bowman cleaned house that summer after the final. Goodbye Dino, Burr, Coffey, Shepard etc, Hello Russian 5, Shanahan and Stanley Cups. Sometimes you have to lose bitterly to find a better way to have a sweet win.

@bretztheman 2 weeks ago

After the game 1 defeat @ home, i thought to myself….
“This series isn’t gonna be as easy as i thought it would be for the Wings…”

After the game 2 loss… i said:
“WE’RE IN BIG TROUBLE!”

@toptenguy1 5 months ago

2:35:33 : I am glad they mentionned Van Hellemond, as I was a HUGE Quebec fan! lol

@devinbrines 2 years ago

Retire 91

@toptenguy1 10 months ago

lol, I remember how me and my friends did a playoff pool where we each picked 1 team from each conference. I picked the Flyers and the Red Wings.. And late in the Conference finals, there were 3 teams remaining.. The Flyers.. The Red Wings.. AND THE DEVILS.. Sigh LOL

@BigTimeEmpire 6 years ago

Do you have Game 4 of the series?

@JC-qf1hc 2 years ago

2:39:29

@905JimRaynor 1 year ago

i bet a guy the Devils would 4-0 Detroit in this series and he gave me 20:1 odds. $5 for $100.

@crawford371 5 years ago (edited)

1:47:39 storyline music 🔥

@vaultsuit 3 years ago (edited)

2:03:05 - makes me sick to my stomach...

@miskwaad 5 years ago (edited)

This is useful if you wish to coach interference, holding, hooking...clutching...Knocking nets off. The Devils didn't play hockey...it was just cheating until they got enough goals then they tackled you the rest of the game. It's interesting to watch it now and see how bad it was.