Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Tonight was the first game of four consecutive games between the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers, Our Hated Rivals. The professionals in charge of the broadcast and the team have come to call this Rivalry Week. I have dubbed this run of games with a more accurate term: The Week of Hate. Case in point, the first 90 (or so) seconds of the game was stopped by a rare event in today’s NHL and this Devils season: an actual fight between Damon Severson and Chris Kreider. Furthering the point that the contempt runs that much deeper between these two teams, there was a