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Two Wins Tucked Away: Mercer Powers Devils to Victory Ahead of Home Opener

  Photo: Andrew MacLean The New Jersey Devils survived a chaotic, late-game flurry in Columbus to secure their second straight victory on Monday night, defeating the Blue Jackets 3-2 to cap off their opening road trip. The star of the dramatic finish was forward Dawson Mercer, who netted a pair of goals—including the decisive empty-net marker—that momentarily gave the Devils a two-goal cushion before the Blue Jackets scored with 20 seconds left to keep the tension high until the final horn. Having collected four points out of a possible six on the road, New Jersey now turns its focus to the familiar roar of the Prudential Center crowd. The team finally heads home to Newark, where they will open their home slate on Thursday night with a pivotal early-season clash against the formidable Florida Panthers. New Jersey Devils Lineup: Palat - Hughes - Bratt Meier - Hischier - Mercer Gritsyuk - Glass - Brown Cotter - Glendening - Halonen Hughes - Pesce Siegenthaler - Hamilton Dillon - Neme...
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Devils Fall To The Canucks In New Jersey 6-4, 1/6/24

 






   The Devils and Canucks had their Hughes Bowl 2.0 on Saturday, January 6th. Unfortunately, Jack Hughes wasn't out tonight - So, so it wasn't a complete Hughes Bowl 2.0 .. However, this was a great game! The Vancouver Canucks won with a 6-4 score.


Devils lineup against the Canucks:

Toffoli - Mercer - Bratt

Haula - Hischier - Bastian

Lazar - McLeod - Holtz

Smith - Tierney - Clarke


Siegenthaler - Nemec

Hughes - Marino

Bahl - Miller


Daws

Vanecek


Canucks lineup against the Devils:

Pettersson - Miller - Boeser

Mikheyev - Suter -  Kuzmenko

Joshua - Blueger - Garland

Hoglander - Aman - Lafferty


Hughes - Hronek

Soucy - Myers

Cole - Juulsen


Demko

DeSmith


   Brock Boeser scored - It was challenged by New Jersey and ended up being no goal due to goaltender interference. The score after the first period was 0-0.


   Elias Pettersson gets the Canucks started early in the second, scoring his 16th of the season. J. T. Miller scores the second for Vancouver at the 16:27 mark - Miller nets another soon after! Colin Miller scores the first goal for the Devils, this also being his first as a Devil! Erik Haula nets one with only seconds left in second - Connor Garland answers back with only 10 seconds left. The final score of the second period was 4-2.


   Elias Pettersson scores his second of the night early in the third! Colin Miller scores his second of the night and his second goal as a Devil - Brendan Smith scores soon after getting the Devils to 4 goals. Dakota Joshua scores the last goal of the night late in the third, the final score being 6-4.




"I thought that there's some good and bad," Erik Haula said. "They had such a good start, and we didn't match that."



- Timo Meier is on injured reserve

- Jack Hughes wasn't out tonight, upper-body injury

- Graeme Clarke made his NHL debut tonight!

- Erik Haula and Jesper Bratt both wore A's for the Devils due to Jack Hughes and Ondrej Palat not being in the lineup.

- Quinn Hughes now holds the franchise record for most multi-point games by a Canucks defenseman with 69.

- Erik Haula hit 300 Career NHL points

- 100th Career Win for Thatcher Demko - Also in the top 5 in Canucks history with the most franchise wins!



"It feels good to win a game on a big road trip," J. T. Miller said. "I liked a lot of our game today."







POST-RAW: Graeme Clarke
POST-RAW : Colin Miller
POST-RAW : Lindy Ruff

Injury Update On Jack Hughes - Lindy Ruff

POST-GAME : Brock Boeser
POST-GAME : Rick Tocchet

*All photos used by the New Jersey Devils used with permission*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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