The Devils-Rangers rivalry that boiled over at the Garden Monday night continued to simmer in John Tortorella on Tuesday. Responding to being called a hypocrite by Peter DeBoer after the Rangers’ 4-2 win on Monday night, Tortorella said the Devils coach should just “just shut up.” PHOTOS: RANGERS DROP THE GLOVES AGAINST DEVILS “I read it. I think Peter needs to jog his memory as far as the starting lineups that I put in over in their building and really basically just shut up,” Tortorella said. “And I need to also.”  Tortorella was livid Monday night when DeBoer started a fistic trio of Cam Janssen, Ryan Carter and Eric Boulton at forward. BRAWL BETWEEN DEVILS AND RANGERS WAS INEVITABLE Tortorella was caught on television cursing DeBoer across the benches before the puck was dropped. The Rangers coach said he was forced to respond and started a pugnacious line of Mike Rupp, Brandon Prust and defenseman Stu Bickel at center.  Three seconds into the game, the aformentioned fighters did their thing. GAME STORY: RANGERS 4, DEVILS 2 After the game, DeBoer said Tortorella was either a “hypocrite” or had “short-term memory loss,” citing the game on Dec. 20 in Newark in which the Rangers started both Rupp and Prust. Sure enough, Rupp tangled with Janssen three seconds into that game as well.  Speaking to reporters before the Devils’ game in Ottawa Tuesday night, DeBoer said he stood by his comments.  “We’ve moved on,” DeBoer said. “I said what I had to say last night. I didn’t need a night to sleep on it to tell you my thoughts.  “I stand by what I said, and we’re moving on to play Ottawa.”  Tortorella, whose team leads the league with 62 fighting majors, is hardly a pacifist.  “Fighting’s part of the game, it’s a big part of the game, but it doesn’t need to be manufactured,” Tortorella said. “In that type of game, (the Devils) and the Rangers, there was going to be fights.  But it’s really gotten old for me, the staged fights.”  Clearly Tortorella read DeBoer’s lineup as an attempt to stir an already boiling cauldron between the rivals.  “That ---- at the beginning of the game, to try to manipulate it , I don’t think it’s right for the game,” Tortorella said. “Let the players decide.”  Despite his anger, Tortorella was pleased with his team’s response.  “It’s a type of camaraderie, backing one another up like that,” Tortorella said. “After everything happened early on, the rest of the team — (those) that don’t have the jobs the combatants had — filled in behind them and went right to work to back them up.  “So I thought that was very important for our club. I thought we played a really good game against a strong team that really grinds.”
John Tortorella has had a night to sleep on it, but the Rangers head coach is still hot under the collar after Monday night’s bloody win over the Devils at Madison Square Garden, saying that the Devils Peter DeBoer needs to "shut up."