{"id":186723,"date":"2026-04-06T02:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:57:06","slug":"devils-jacob-markstrom-cool-off-red-hot-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186723\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils, Jacob Markstrom cool off red-hot Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Markstrom made 18 saves for his first shutout of the season and the New Jersey Devils beat Montreal 3-0 on Sunday night, ending the Canadiens&#8217; eight-game winning streak hours after they clinched a second straight playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens got the playoff spot when Detroit lost 5-4 to Minnesota. They are the first Canadian team to secure a playoff berth this season.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Glass, Timo Meier and Connor Brown scored for New Jersey as it fights to keep its slim postseason chances alive. Jack Hughes had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils won their 11th consecutive game in Montreal, the longest active run in the NHL against a single opponent. The Canadiens haven&#8217;t beaten New Jersey at the Bell Centre since a 2-1 overtime victory on Dec. 14, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Fowler made 17 saves for Montreal. The Canadiens capped an undefeated five-game trip with a 4-3 shootout win over the Devils in New Jersey on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s Cole Caufield remained a goal short of 50 for the second straight game after scoring his 48th and 49th on Thursday night against the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Meier scored on a tap-in midway through the first period after a shot from Hughes went through Fowler&#8217;s legs and hit the post. Glass burst through the neutral zone and beat Fowler late in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Brown added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Devils: Host Philadelphia on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: Host Florida on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Markstrom made 18 saves for his first shutout of the season and the New Jersey Devils beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72461,48214,9,11,10,539],"class_list":{"0":"post-186723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-montreal-canadiens","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nhl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186723","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=186723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}