{"id":427654,"date":"2026-01-23T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427654\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:21:09","slug":"game-notes-canucks-vs-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427654\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Notes: Canucks vs. Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CANUCKS VS DEVILS<\/p>\n<p>TV: Sportsnet Pacific, MSG Sports Network<\/p>\n<p>Radio: Sportsnet 650<\/p>\n<p>MATCH-UP INFO<\/p>\n<p>Tonight marks the second and final meeting between the Canucks and Devils this season: Dec. 14 (road, 2-1 W) and Jan. 23 (home).<br \/>\nVancouver is 61-43-17-4 all-time against New Jersey, including a 32-16-11-2 record at home<br \/>\nThe Canucks are 4-5-1 in their last 10 games against the Devils (3-2-0 in their last five).<br \/>\nEvander Kane leads all active Canucks skaters in scoring against New Jersey with 20 points (14-6-20) in 36 career games.<br \/>\nIn 26 career games against the Devils, Jake DeBrusk has 14 points (7-7-14).<br \/>\nConor Garland has nine points (3-6-9) in 13 career games against New Jersey.<br \/>\nIn 10 career games against the Devils, Elias Pettersson has eight points (3-5-8).<br \/>\nKevin Lankinen is 1-0-1 with a 4.57 goals-against average and an .862 save percentage in two career games against New Jersey.<br \/>\nJiri Patera has yet to face the Devils in his career.<\/p>\n<p>QUICK NUMBERS<\/p>\n<p>Zeev Buium ranks 3rd amongst rookie defencemen in assists (15) and fourth in points (19).<br \/>\nDrew O\u2019Connor ranks t-7th in the NHL in shorthanded goals this season (2).<br \/>\nZeev Buium recorded his first two points as a Canuck in the team\u2019s previous meeting against New Jersey this season.<\/p>\n<p>LAST MEETING \u2013 DEC. 14\/25: VAN 2 at NJD 1<\/p>\n<p>Jake DeBrusk opened the scoring on the power play 1:01 into the opening frame\u2026Conor Garland and Zeev Buium had the assists\u2026Buium scored his first as a Canuck on the power play 5:47 later\u2026Garland and Thatcher Demko had the helpers\u2026Luke Hughes got New Jersey on the board 4:02 into the second\u2026DeBrusk had four shots\u2026D Elias Pettersson had six hits\u2026Marcus Pettersson, Tyler Myers, and Marco Rossi each blocked three shots\u2026Thatcher Demko made 25 saves.<\/p>\n<p>2025.26 TEAM RANKS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANUCKS VS DEVILS TV: Sportsnet Pacific, MSG Sports Network Radio: Sportsnet 650 MATCH-UP INFO Tonight marks the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-427654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}