the hapless Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>.<\/p>\nAfter that win in their season opener, the Devils got rocked 6-0 by the New York Islanders, then fell 5-3 to the Utah Mammoth.<\/p>\n
The Devils have had plenty of time to lick their wounds, with three days off after losing to the Mammoth. They\u2019re still likely to be hungry to prove themselves, as this was supposed to be a bounce-back season after missing the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Led by Jack and Luke Hughes, the Devils were supposed to be the next big thing in the NHL. At this rate, would Quinn Hughes even want to join his brothers in New Jersey? Maybe the Minnesota Wild have nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n
Vancouver Canucks projected lines<\/p>\n
The Canucks didn\u2019t practice on Friday and, with an early game \u2014 3:30 p.m. local time in New Jersey \u2014 the Canucks won\u2019t be holding a morning skate on Saturday. So, the lineup for the Canucks requires some educated guessing.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, here are the Canucks\u2019 projected lines:<\/p>\n
Jake DeBrusk \u2013 Elias Pettersson \u2013 Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki
Paul Cotter \u2013 Marco Rossi \u2013 Brock Boeser
Liam \u00d6hgren \u2013 Max Sasson \u2013 Linus Karlsson
Arshdeep Bains \u2013 Drew O\u2019Connor \u2013 Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n
Zeev Buium \u2013 Filip Hronek
Jamie Oleksiak \u2013 Tom Willander
Elias Pettersson \u2013 Luke Schenn<\/p>\n
Leevi Meril\u00e4inen
Kevin Lankinen<\/p>\n
After Aatu R\u00e4ty and Victor Mancini struggled more than most against the Carolina Hurricanes, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see veterans Brendan Gallagher and Luke Schenn draw back into the lineup.<\/p>\n
Paul Cotter is set to play his first game against the Devils since they let him go to free agency. Cotter had 25 goals and 37 points across two seasons with the Devils; he\u2019s on pace for 66 goals and 98 points with the Canucks this season.<\/p>\n
The Canucks\u2019 starting goaltender has not been confirmed, but with back-to-back games on Saturday and Sunday, whoever doesn\u2019t get the start against the Devils will presumably play against the New York Rangers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
After Leevi Meril\u00e4inen had to come into Thursday\u2019s game in relief of Kevin Lankinen, who gave up six goals on 18 shots, it would make sense for Meril\u00e4inen to start on Saturday.<\/p>\n
New Jersey Devils projected lines<\/p>\n
The Devils had some injury issues, with Jonas Siegenthaler suffering an injury on Tuesday and Jack Hughes missing practice on Thursday for what the Devils called a maintenance day. Both are expected to be in the lineup on Saturday, however.<\/p>\n
Here are the Devils\u2019 projected lines:<\/p>\n
Timo Meier \u2013 Nico Hischier \u2013 Luke Evangelista
Anthony Mantha \u2013 Jack Hughes \u2013 Jesper Bratt
Arseny Gritsyuk \u2013 Evan Rodrigues \u2013 Dawson Mercer
Amadeus Lombardi \u2013 Cody Glass \u2013 Jesper Boqvist<\/p>\n
Luke Hughes \u2013 Brett Pesce
Jonas Siegenthaler \u2013 Dougie Hamilton
Brenden Dillon \u2013 Declan Chisholm<\/p>\n
Jake Allen
Nico Daws<\/p>\n
The Devils\u2019 starting goaltender is expected to be Jake Allen, who has an .875 save percentage in his two starts this season. Backup Nico Daws gave up six goals to the Islanders in his one start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elias Pettersson is on a roll. The Vancouver Canucks\u2019 top centre is off to one of the best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-927898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927898","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=927898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}