{"id":439201,"date":"2026-02-01T04:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:27:19","slug":"power-play-falls-flat-in-devils-loss-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439201\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Play falls flat in Devils’ loss in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL:David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Playing without injured star center Jack Hughes<\/a>, the Devils could not build on their emotional OT win Thursday, falling to the Ottawa Senators<\/a> 4-1 on Saturday at Canadian Tire Centre.<\/p>\n

Timo Meier<\/a> scored the Devils\u2019 only goal, but New Jersey failed on all five power play opportunities \u2014 Connor Brown<\/a>\u2018s would-be game-tying, man-advantage goal was taken off the board late in the third. <\/p>\n

The Senators also struck for a pair of power-play goals from Brady Tkachuk and Dylan Cozens, the latter of which ended up being the game-winning goal in the first minute of the third period.<\/p>\n

Jake Allen<\/a> stopped 30 shots, taking a tough-luck loss. Allen is just 2-6-1 in his past nine starts and has allowed at least three goals in all seven losses in that span.<\/p>\n

Linus Ullmark made 26 saves for Ottawa in his first start since Dec. 27.<\/p>\n

The Devils thought Brown had tied the score on the power play late in the third period, when he made a clever play to glove the puck to his stick and push the puck past Ullmark. <\/p>\n

But after video review, officials called took Brown\u2019s goal off the board, calling his play a hand pass. <\/p>\n

The Senators scored three times in the third period, including Cozens\u2019 man-advantage goal at 0:37 of the frame that gave them the lead for good. <\/p>\n

Stutzle scored at 17:53, about 90 seconds after Brown\u2019s disallowed goal, giving Ottawa valuable insurance, and Shane Pinto sealed the Devils\u2019 third loss in four games with an empty-net goal with 1:19 left.<\/p>\n

The Devils had the opportunity to put Ullmark and the Senators behind the 8-ball early in the game with a pair of first-period power plays but did not build momentum on either. <\/p>\n

Tkachuk, who also added two assists, then gave Ottawa the lead when he beat Allen clean from the left circle at 13:38 of the first. <\/p>\n

But Meier knotted the score with his 14th goal of the season at 18:16 of the first from Cody Glass<\/a> and Brown.<\/p>\n

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\t\tPat Pickens is an award-winning sports writer and author who has covered the NHL since 2013. He has covered … More about Pat Pickens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Kirouac-Imagn Images Playing without injured star center Jack Hughes, the Devils could not build on their emotional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,3723,5,576,151,5185,5184,4,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-439201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-devils-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-jersey-devils","13":"tag-newjersey","14":"tag-newjerseydevils","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-ottawa-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115993488175035336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439201","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=439201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}