New York Rangers (24-29-8, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (31-29-2, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Newark, New Jersey; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New Jersey Devils host the New York Rangers as winners of three straight games.<\/p>\n
New Jersey is 31-29-2 overall with a 4-12-2 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Devils have a 14-6-2 record in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
New York is 24-29-8 overall and 7-10-3 against the Metropolitan Division. The Rangers have an 11-14-4 record in games they serve more penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nico Hischier has 20 goals and 24 assists for the Devils. Timo Meier has four goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad has 25 goals and 31 assists for the Rangers. Alexis Lafreniere has scored four goals with five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Devils: 4-6-0, averaging 2.1 goals, 3.5 assists, three penalties and 6.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 3-5-2, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.7 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Devils: None listed.<\/p>\n
Rangers: None listed.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers (24-29-8, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (31-29-2, in the Metropolitan Division) Newark,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64211,597,9,11,10,7622,319],"class_list":["post-155150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-64211","tag-article","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}