{"id":160557,"date":"2025-09-22T07:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:39:41","slug":"arseny-gritsyuk-proved-he-is-an-nhl-player-in-his-first-preseason-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160557\/","title":{"rendered":"Arseny Gritsyuk proved he is an NHL player in his first preseason game"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was not much to take away from the Devils’ 5-3 loss to the New York Rangers in Sunday\u2019s preseason opener. Nico Daws had a rough performance<\/a>, but most of the rest of the lineup is on the fringes of the roster. The Devils put out one NHL-caliber forward line: Arseny Gritsyuk-Cody Glass-Paul Cotter.<\/p>\n

Head coach Sheldon Keefe leaned on this line all game. Cotter played 22 minutes, which is insane for a preseason opener. Both Gritsyuk and Glass played 18 minutes. Keefe played this like a typical top line in a Rangers\u2019 matchup. Those are the type of numbers we see from Jack Hughes in the biggest games of the season.<\/p>\n

This line wasn\u2019t just on the ice for a while; they played really well. There were some shaky moments in the defensive zone, but they were incredible in the opponent\u2019s end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gritsyuk showed offensive instincts that come from NHL veterans. He had a pretty pass up close to get a primary assist on Cotter\u2019s second-period goal. He also scored a power-play goal off a one-timer. Both plays showed Devils fans what they wanted to see from the Russian rookie.<\/p>\n

He had five individual chances created at even strength and threw three hits according to Natural Stat Trick<\/a>. We want a player who can do a little bit of everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was just the first game of the preseason, and Gritsyuk did have a low point in the first period when he was in no-man\u2019s land on the first goal of the game, but his overall game was largely positive. There\u2019s not much to complain about in the aggregate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the first period, Gritsyuk really settled in. It got fans excited for something in what quickly became a game that was out of hand. He scored his goal near the end of the game on a 5-on-3 power play, showing he could earn himself a position on the PP going into the season. All of this is what we should be taking away from Sunday\u2019s game. We love a positive takeaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was not much to take away from the Devils’ 5-3 loss to the New York Rangers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-160557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}