Evan Rodrigues chipped the rebound of a Brad Marchand past Jake Allen<\/a>, who got the start despite leaving Monday\u2019s games with cramps.<\/p>\nAnother positive: for the first time this season, New Jersey didn\u2019t lose anyone to injury. Or, it didn\u2019t look that way, anyway.<\/p>\n
Nothing to really complain about tonight, except maybe the officiating. There were some pretty questionable calls including a holding against Luke Hughes and an interference on Jesper Bratt. But the Devils penalty kill was strong, killing off all five Panthers power plays.<\/p>\n
And the officials did get the biggest call of the game right, waiving off Sam Reinhart\u2019s goal with 1:17 to go because Anton Lundell made contact with Allen in the crease. Paul Maurice challenged the call and lost on review.<\/p>\n
This is the kind of game the Devils would have lost in previous years: a home game after a long road trip. The Panthers were missing Sasha Barkov, Matt Tkachuk, and Dmitry Kulikov to injury. Florida had lost Wednesday night in Detroit with Sergei Bobrovsky in net and started their backup.<\/p>\n
The Panthers came out hard and carried play through most of the first, but New Jersey never panicked, let them wear themselves down, and then counterpunched in the second and third and took advantage of fresher legs to hold on late to get the win.<\/p>\n
Please see the full highlights below:<\/p>\n
The Devils are back home Saturday afternoon for a 3:30 pm game with the two-time Stanley Cup runners-up, the Edmonton Oilers. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if Sheldon Keefe sticks with Allen a third straight game. He\u2019s been light\u2019s out so far with a 1.20 goals against average and .957 save percentage in five periods of play.<\/p>\n
What did you make of tonight\u2019s game? Who stood out to you the most? Who are you concerned about? What do you expect against the Oilers this weekend? Hard not to be enjoying these games. Season is off to a promising start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This one had all the makings of a trap game. The New Jersey Devils were coming home for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[108926,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-230902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-devils-game-recaps","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}