Game 7 up next after Hurricanes rout Devils 4-0

This one probably would have been even more one-sided had the Devils not had Brodeur. Coming off his record-tying 23rd career playoff shutout, a 1-0 victory three nights earlier in Newark, he was under siege all night and finished with 33 saves.

"The way we played, we didn't give ourselves a good chance to win this hockey game," Brodeur said.

Not even the return of captain Jamie Langenbrunner, who missed three games with a lower body injury, could save New Jersey from its worst performance of an otherwise evenly matched series. The previous four games were decided by one goal, with two going to overtime and another 0.2 of a second shy from making it three straight before Jokinen's buzzer-beating deflection ended Game 4.

"We knew it wasn't going to be easy," Langenbrunner said.

Capitals 5, Rangers 3

At New York, Tom Poti had a goal and two assists and Washington forced a Game 7 against the Rangers, who played without suspended coach John Tortorella.

Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist didn't make it to the third period for the second straight game, and Poti torched his former team as the Capitals tied the first-round playoff series and set up a decisive Game 7 on Tuesday night in Washington.

The Capitals had trailed the series 3-1 before a pair of routs.

Tortorella served a one-game suspension following a confrontation with a fan Friday during New York's 4-0 loss in Game 5 that sent the series back to Madison Square Garden. Tortorella squirted water into the crowd and threw a water bottle over the glass and into the stands.