Leafs Win Game 1

New Jersey
Devils

"I go to the net hard," Tucker said. "I play the game as hard as I can each and every shift."

Tucker scored the game-winning goal 1:18 into the final period on a pass from Wendel Clark.

"I got a pass for Clarkie, it hit a glove, bounced on the ice," Tucker said. "I got a backhander on net, the puck came right back to me and I shot into a wide-open net."

"It was kind of a broken play," Devils goalie Martin Brodeur said. "Clark made a past real high and one of our players threw it back toward the net. Tucker made a good shot and the rebound just laid there for him and he was able to tap it in. It was kind of a lucky bounce."

The Devils had a lot of chances, but couldn't score on CuJo. New Jersey hit the post three times.

"I thought our guys did a pretty good job," Devils coach Larry Robinson said. "I thought we had enough chances to win the game tonight, but we just didn't put our chances to good use."