New Jersey Devils (39-34-3, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Montreal Canadiens (45-21-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Montreal, Quebec; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New Jersey Devils visit the Montreal Canadiens after the Canadiens beat the New Jersey Devils 4-3 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
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Montreal is 45-21-10 overall and 22-13-2 in home games. The Canadiens rank sixth in NHL play serving 10 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n
New Jersey has a 39-34-3 record overall and a 19-19-0 record on the road. The Devils have conceded 233 goals while scoring 211 for a -22 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season. The Canadiens won 4-3 in a shootout in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nicholas Suzuki has scored 27 goals with 68 assists for the Canadiens. Cole Caufield has 10 goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Jack Hughes has 25 goals and 45 assists for the Devils. Jesper Bratt has scored six goals with 10 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Canadiens: 9-1-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.7 assists, 4.4 penalties and 10.8 penalty minutes while giving up 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Devils: 6-3-1, averaging 3.9 goals, seven assists, 3.3 penalties and 8.5 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Canadiens: Alexandre Carrier: out (upper body), Alexandre Texier: day to day (lower body), Patrik Laine: out (abdomen), Kirby Dach: out (upper body).<\/p>\n
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Devils: Zack MacEwen: out for season (acl), Arseny Gritsyuk: out for season (upper-body), Brett Pesce: out (lower-body), Stefan Noesen: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils (39-34-3, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Montreal Canadiens (45-21-10, in the Atlantic Division) Montreal, Quebec;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[16551,152917,46786,113887,49,48,10100,12429,44235,13886,53782,2338,743,8832,749,1531,111331,906,89546,94691],"class_list":{"0":"post-583535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-alexandre-carrier","9":"tag-alexandre-texier","10":"tag-atlantic-division","11":"tag-brett-pesce","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-cole-caufield","15":"tag-jack-hughes","16":"tag-jesper-bratt","17":"tag-kirby-dach","18":"tag-metropolitan-division","19":"tag-montreal","20":"tag-montreal-canadiens","21":"tag-new-jersey","22":"tag-new-jersey-devils","23":"tag-patrik-laine","24":"tag-penalty-minutes","25":"tag-quebec","26":"tag-stefan-noesen","27":"tag-zack-macewen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583535","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=583535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}