Fresh off the Olympic break, Jack Hughes and the Devils hosted the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday at Prudential Center, aiming to snap their three-game losing streak. However, the Sabres defeated the Devils 2-1 to put an end to their own losing streak, stopping it at two. Tage Thompson and Peyton Krebs each found the back of the net for Buffalo, while Timo Meier scored the lone goal for New Jersey. The Devils head over to Pittsburgh on Thursday, and the Sabres are back at it on Friday to continue their road trip in Florida to take on the Panthers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Buffalo Sabres Lineup:<\/p>\n
Krebs \u2013 Thompson \u2013 Tuch
Zucker \u2013 McLeod \u2013 Quinn
Ostlund \u2013 Norris \u2013 Doan
Malenstyn \u2013 Dunne \u2013 Kozak<\/p>\n
Sameulsson \u2013 Dahlin
Byram \u2013 Power
Metsa \u2013 Kesselring<\/p>\n
Luukkonen
Lyon<\/p>\n
New Jersey Devils:<\/p>\n
Meier \u2013 Hischier \u2013 Mercer
Bratt \u2013 Hughes \u2013 Brown
Gritsyuk \u2013 Glass \u2013 Hameenaho
Cotter \u2013 Bjugstad \u2013 Tsyplakov<\/p>\n
Pesce \u2013 Kovacevic
Siegenthaler \u2013 Hamilton
Dillon \u2013 Nemec<\/p>\n
Allen
Markstrom<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson<\/a> opened the scoring after a scoreless first period when he took a pass from Peyton Krebs, putting in a snap shot past Jake Allen from the slot at 11:50 of the second period. Krebs collected the puck along the left wall after the Devils failed to keep it in Buffalo\u2019s zone, and he skated into New Jersey\u2019s end with Thompson before sending it over to get the Sabres on the board 1-0. With little time left on the clock, a snap shot from Jack Hughes in the right face-off circle was denied by Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen at 1:34.<\/p>\n At 9:24 of the third, Krebs<\/a> pushed it to 2-0 for the Sabres, scoring his eighth goal of the season. Thompson stole the puck from Hughes, skated down the slot before handing it over to Krebs, who fired a wrister from the left hash marks. Timo Meier<\/a> brought the Devils within one, 2-1, when he scored in the slot with Allen pulled for an extra attacker on a rebound of a shot by Hughes, who took a pass from Jesper Bratt before shooting from just above the left circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Game Notes:<\/p>\n \u2013 Jake Allen made a total of 28 saves for New Jersey.<\/p>\n \u2013 This game was Jack Hughes\u2019 return to the New Jersey lineup after he missed the last three Devils\u2019 games before the Olympic break due to a lower-body injury. In his return, he recorded an assist and had two shots on goal in 21:25 of ice time.<\/p>\n \u2013 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made a total of 27 saves for Buffalo. \u2026This was Luukkonen\u2019s first game since the 27th of January. He missed five games before the Olympic break after sustaining a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n \u2013 The Devils (28-28-2) have lost four straight games, and six of their past seven.<\/p>\n \u2013 The Sabres are 33-19-6.<\/p>\n \u2013 Both Tage Thompson and Peyton Krebs picked up a goal and an assist.<\/p>\n \u2013 The Devils had two breakaway opportunities while short-handed that missed the net both times. Jesper Bratt sent a backhand over the crossbar at 1:55 of the first, and Nico Hischier shot wide of the left post at 2:29 of the second.\u00a0<\/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":"Fresh off the Olympic break, Jack Hughes and the Devils hosted the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday at Prudential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[4114,2216,11080,2866,229,1774,201,2217,5,1272,3724,3170,1534,2218,576,151,5185,5184,4,1602,11077,1712,1773,7800],"class_list":["post-473635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-alex-lyon","tag-atlantic-division","tag-beck-malenstyn","tag-brett-pesce","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-cody-glass","tag-devils","tag-eastern-conference","tag-hockey","tag-jack-hughes","tag-jake-allen","tag-jesper-bratt","tag-jonas-siegenthaler","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-nhl","tag-nico-hischier","tag-peyton-krebs","tag-tage-thompson","tag-timo-meier","tag-ukko-pekka-luukkonen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116138788232623451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473635","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=473635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}