New Jersey Devils (36-32-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators (34-28-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Nashville, Tennessee; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New Jersey Devils visit the Nashville Predators after Jack Hughes scored two goals in the Devils’ 6-4 win over the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n
Nashville has a 20-13-3 record in home games and a 34-28-9 record overall. The Predators have a 28-6-3 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
New Jersey has a 36-32-2 record overall and an 18-17-0 record in road games. The Devils have a -24 scoring differential, with 189 total goals scored and 213 allowed.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Thursday for the second time this season. The Devils won 3-2 in overtime in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Steven Stamkos has 35 goals and 22 assists for the Predators. Matthew Wood has six goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nico Hischier has 24 goals and 28 assists for the Devils. Hughes has scored eight goals with 10 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Predators: 7-2-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.5 assists, 3.7 penalties and eight penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Devils: 7-3-0, averaging 4.1 goals, 6.7 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n
Devils: Zack MacEwen: out for season (acl), Arseny Gritsyuk: day to day (undisclosed), Brett Pesce: out (lower-body), Stefan Noesen: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press New Jersey Devils (36-32-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators (34-28-9, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-522790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nashville","10":"tag-nashville-predators","11":"tag-nashvillepredators","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116292252437254275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522790","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=522790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}