{"id":440962,"date":"2026-02-02T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/440962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:34:00","slug":"devils-3-2-predators-jan-29-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/440962\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils 3-2 Predators (Jan 29, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWARK, N.J. — \u2014 Nico Hischier<\/a> scored 42 seconds into overtime to give the Devils a 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators<\/a> on Thursday night after New Jersey’s Jack Hughes<\/a> left the game in the first period and didn’t return.<\/p>\n

Hischier’s slap shot from just beyond the left faceoff circle beat Nashville’s Justus Annunen<\/a> high to the glove side for the winner. Dawson Mercer<\/a> picked up the assist on Hischier’s eighth career overtime goal. Hischier leads the Devils with 18 goals and 23 assists in 54 games.<\/p>\n

New Jersey’s Jesper Bratt<\/a> tied the game at 2 midway through the third. Dougie Hamilton<\/a> also scored for the Devils, who snapped a two-game skid. Jacob Markstrom<\/a> made 27 saves.<\/p>\n

Hughes left the game after three shifts in the first period. Coach Sheldon Keefe said it was a lower-body injury and that Hughes would be re-evaluated Friday, but that he did not believe it was serious. <\/p>\n

Hughes\u2019 latest absence comes two weeks before the U.S. is set to play its first game at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Hughes, along with brother Quinn, is a first-time Olympian. <\/p>\n

Michael McCarron<\/a> and Filip Forsberg<\/a> scored for Nashville, which lost its third straight. Annunen made 32 saves.<\/p>\n

McCarron staked Nashville to an early lead with a goal five minutes into the first period. Hamilton tied it at 1 midway through the second, extending his points streak to nine games.<\/p>\n

Forsberg gave the Predators the lead 1:34 into the third period. With the goal, Forsberg moves into sixth place for career NHL goals by a Swedish player with 338 scores in 833 games. He trails Mats Sundin (564), Daniel Alfredsson (444), Markus Nasland (395), Tomas Sandstrom (394), Daniel Sedin (393).<\/p>\n

Bratt’s 13 goal of the season came on a Predators turnover, flipping a shot over Annunen to tie the game.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Predators: At the New York Islanders<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Devils: At the Ottawa Senators<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, N.J. — \u2014 Nico Hischier scored 42 seconds into overtime to give the Devils a 3-2 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-440962","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-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115999176355718327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440962","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=440962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}