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Patrick Roy's gaffe opens door for Devils' Game 4 win.
Byline: Jennifer Floyd
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ The cocky swagger that makes Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy great also makes him an accident waiting to happen.
Folks were reminded again of Roy's Icarus-like quality in New Jersey's 3-2 victory against Colorado in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Saturday night.
The Avs were 20 minutes away from returning to Denver with a chance to win the Cup with a victory in Game 5 on Monday. The game plan was simple. Don't do anything stupid. If the Devils were going to come back from down 2-1, they were going to do so on a great play, not an Avs mistake.
Except Roy didn't see going behind his net to play the puck in the face of a tenacious forecheck as a potential problem. He's Patrick Roy. Hadn't he stopped almost everything New Jersey had thrown at him so far?
"These are the plays that I have to make," Roy said. "It was kind of a soft dump. I went outside. I was going to throw it on my forehand, but nobody was there. I tried to bring it back and throw it to Rob Blake, but I thought I had more time and they put pressure on me."
Then something went wrong, way wrong. Roy hesitated. Devils forward Jay Pandolfo swiped the puck. It squirted to the front of the net. Scott Gomez scored into the empty net. The game was tied.
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