In a highly anticipated \u201cHughesbowl\u201d that saw all three brothers share the ice on Monday at Crand Casino Arena, the Devils finally found their footing, putting an end to their four-game skid. For New Jersey, Jesper Bratt and Ondrej Palat each netted a pair of goals to lead the charge and help the Devils hand the Minnesota Wild their second straight loss. Out of the Hughes brothers, the only one to pick up a point in the \u201cHughesbowl\u201d was Jack Hughes. Marcus Foligno and Ryan Hartman each scored for the Wild. The Devils head home on Wednesday to take on the Seattle Kraken, and the Wild will host the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday, hoping to get a win on home ice before heading to Buffalo.<\/p>\n
New Jersey Devils Lineup:<\/p>\n
Meier \u2013 Hughes \u2013 Bratt
Palat \u2013 Hischier \u2013 Mercer
Gritsyuk \u2013 Glass \u2013 Brown
Cotter \u2013 Glendening \u2013 Dadonov<\/p>\n
Hughes \u2013 Pesce
Siegenthaler \u2013 Kovacevic
Dillon \u2013 Hamilton<\/p>\n
Markstrom
Allen<\/p>\n
Minnesota Wild Lineup:<\/p>\n
Kaprizov \u2013 Yurov \u2013 Zuccarello
Johansson \u2013 Hartman \u2013 Boldy
Tarasenko \u2013 Jones \u2013 Hinostroza
Foligno \u2013 Sturm \u2013 Trenin<\/p>\n
Hughes \u2013 Faber
\u00a0Brodin \u2013 Spurgeon
Middleton \u2013 Hunt<\/p>\n
Wallstedt
Gustavsson<\/p>\n
Dawson Mercer<\/a> opened the scoring to give New Jersey a 1-0 lead, putting in his 12th goal of the season at 9:53 of the first period. He took a pass from Nico Hischier, who was battling for the puck along the wall with Brock Faber, and worked it off the wall behind the net, handing it off to Mercer in the low slot for a snap shot past Jesper Wallstedt.<\/p>\n Late in the middle frame at 6:19, Ryan Hartman<\/a> knotted it up 1-1 with his 12th of the season after Quinn Hughes kept the puck away from Mercer to pass to Marcus Johansson, who waited before passing it off to Faber. He fired a slap shot from the point, and Hartman in front deflected it past Jacob Markstrom. With 8 seconds remaining on the clock, Ondrej Palat<\/a> untied the knot to put the Devils back in front 2-1 for his first goal in 20 games when he quickly poked it in past Wallstedt after Hischier grabbed a hold of the puck behind the net before skating around in front, tapping the puck backhanded for Palat to record his third goal of the season.<\/p>\n Jesper Bratt<\/a> tapped it in on a 2-on-1 with Dougie Hamilton to increase the New Jersey lead 3-1 after at 12:32 of the third, and only 21 seconds later, Bratt<\/a> scored his 11th goal of the season to extend the lead 4-1 with a backdoor tip-in off a shot by Hamilton, who received a pass from Brenden Dillon near the blue line before firing. At 10:21, Palat<\/a> struck again for his fourth of the season to make it 5-1 when he drove up to attempt to pick up the puck after Hischier sent it up along the wall, and after the Wild got a hold of the puck, Hischier interrupted, getting it loose for Mercer. Mercer sent a centering pass in the low slot to Palat to put it home. Marcus Foligno cut the deficit to 5-2 with a power-play goal, picking up his second goal of the season with a rebound and only 19 seconds left of regulation.<\/p>\n Game Notes:<\/p>\n \u2013 Jacob Markstrom made a total of 20 saves for New Jersey.<\/p>\n \u2013 Dawson Mercer picked up both a goal and an assist, Dougie Hamilton and Nico Hischier each recorded two assists, and both Ondrej Palat and Jesper Bratt scored twice.<\/p>\n \u2013 With his two goals in only 21 seconds, Bratt became the second-fastest two goals by one player in franchise history behind Hischier (0:10 on October 19th, 2024).<\/p>\n \u2013 The Devils are 23-21-2, coming off a 4-3 loss against the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.<\/p>\n \u2013 Jesper Wallstedt made a total of 24 saves for Minnesota.<\/p>\n \u2013 The Wild are 26-12-9, losing two straight and four of their past five (1-2-2).<\/p>\n \tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a highly anticipated \u201cHughesbowl\u201d that saw all three brothers share the ice on Monday at Crand Casino…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[1770,1502,1843,1175,5,1272,512,3170,795,1769,1336,1118,2218,161,38,5280,151,4,1602,1768,1496,2071,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-406197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-brenden-dillon","9":"tag-brock-faber","10":"tag-central-division","11":"tag-dawson-mercer","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jack-hughes","14":"tag-jacob-markstrom","15":"tag-jesper-bratt","16":"tag-jesper-wallstedt","17":"tag-luke-hughes","18":"tag-marcus-foligno","19":"tag-marcus-johansson","20":"tag-metropolitan-division","21":"tag-minnesota","22":"tag-minnesota-wild","23":"tag-minnesotawild","24":"tag-new-jersey-devils","25":"tag-nhl","26":"tag-nico-hischier","27":"tag-ondrej-palat","28":"tag-quinn-hughes","29":"tag-western-conference","30":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115890617494902791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406197","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=406197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}