{"id":390746,"date":"2026-01-04T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390746\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:38:39","slug":"jesper-bratt-leads-new-jersey-devils-to-4-1-victory-over-utah-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390746\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesper Bratt leads New Jersey Devils to 4-1 victory over Utah Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 4-1 win over the Utah Mammoth on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Timo Meier, Nico Hischier and Dougie Hamilton scored for New Jersey. Brett Pesce finished with two assists and five blocked shots.<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s Jack Hughes assisted on two goals. It was his first two-point game since returning five games ago after being sidelined for 18 contests due to a hand injury.<\/p>\n

Michael Carcone scored in the third period for Utah (19-20-3). Barrett Hayton and Sean Durzi assisted as the Mammoth lost for the fourth time in six games.<\/p>\n

The Devils (22-17-2) won for the second time in five games. New Jersey has an 11-7-2 record at home in the Prudential Center, with nine of those victories coming early in the season.<\/p>\n

New Jersey entered the game ranked last last among the 16 teams in the Eastern Conference in goals scored.<\/p>\n

Bratt and Meier scored in the first period to give New Jersey an early lead. Pesce assisted on both goals.<\/p>\n

Meier scored his first goal since December 9th. He had missed five games for a family matter from Dec. 11-19.<\/p>\n

The Devils increased their lead to 3-0 on a power-play goal from Hischier at 15:13 on a tip-in. Hischier (12 goals) scored in a second straight game after going without a goal in 13 games.<\/p>\n

Hamilton made it 4-0 1:30 later on an assist from Luke Glendening. Hamilton scored for the first time in 26 games, dating to ctober 28th.<\/p>\n

Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves for the Devils. Karel Vejmelka stopped 26 shots for Utah.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Utah: At the New York Rangers on Monday. <\/p>\n

Devils: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NHL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist to lead the New Jersey Devils…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[3668,2866,201,1294,5,1272,512,3170,1521,43342,1333,4296,576,151,5185,5184,4,292,1602,1524,43,1773,1256,51,232,3154],"class_list":["post-390746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-barrett-hayton","tag-brett-pesce","tag-devils","tag-dougie-hamilton","tag-hockey","tag-jack-hughes","tag-jacob-markstrom","tag-jesper-bratt","tag-karel-vejmelka","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-luke-glendening","tag-michael-carcone","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nico-hischier","tag-sean-durzi","tag-sports","tag-timo-meier","tag-ut-state-wire","tag-utah","tag-utah-hockey-club","tag-utah-mammoth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115838760004555815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}