On a blustery spring night, up in a barn loft in the New Jersey Pinelands, Alex Dawson’s deep, raspy voice conjures up the devil ... the supernatural, a monster, and a bit of humor.

In the end, the lead the Devils spotted to the Carolina Hurricanes early in the game was an insurmountable deficit. The Devils’ comeback in Game 4 fell just short after chipping away at the Hurricanes ...