Montreal Canadiens (44-21-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (39-34-2, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Newark, New Jersey; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens visit the New Jersey Devils after Cole Caufield’s two-goal game against the New York Rangers in the Canadiens’ 3-2 win.<\/p>\n
New Jersey has a 39-34-2 record overall and a 20-15-2 record in home games. The Devils have gone 33-9-1 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Montreal has a 22-8-8 record in road games and a 44-21-10 record overall. The Canadiens are fourth in league play with 263 total goals (averaging 3.5 per game).<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Devils won 4-3 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Timo Meier has scored 22 goals with 17 assists for the Devils. Jack Hughes has eight goals and 13 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Lane Hutson has 11 goals and 62 assists for the Canadiens. Caufield has 11 goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Devils: 7-3-0, averaging 4.2 goals, 7.4 assists, 3.2 penalties and 8.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 8-2-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.8 assists, 4.5 penalties and 11 penalty minutes while giving up 1.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Devils: Zack MacEwen: out for season (acl), Arseny Gritsyuk: out for season (upper-body), Brett Pesce: out (lower-body), Stefan Noesen: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Alexandre Carrier: out (upper body), Alexandre Texier: day to day (lower body), Patrik Laine: out (abdomen), Kirby Dach: out (upper body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens (44-21-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (39-34-2, in the Metropolitan Division) Newark, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5109],"tags":[61723,301,201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-538285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-61723","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-devils","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-new-jersey","13":"tag-new-jersey-devils","14":"tag-newjersey","15":"tag-newjerseydevils","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-hockey","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116340329370438542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538285","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=538285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}