{"id":540183,"date":"2026-04-04T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540183\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:34:33","slug":"devils-games-76-77-vs-canadiens-lines-notes-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540183\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils Games 76, 77 vs. Canadiens; Lines, Notes & How to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Jersey Devils (39-34-2, 8o points) will square against the red-hot Montreal Canadiens (44-21-10, 98 points) in a home-and-home series Saturday at Prudential Center and Sunday at Bell Centre.<\/p>\n

The Devils enter the weekend on a four-game home win streak and have 11 wins in their past 16 games overall. Led by Jack Hughes and Jesper Bratt, each of whom had five points, the Devils defeated the Washington Capitals 7-3 on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

Montreal will enter Saturday\u2019s game on a seven-game win streak after its 3-2 victory against the New York Rangers on Thursday. <\/p>\n

Cole Caufield had two goals in Montreal\u2019s win at MSG, boosting his career-high season total to 49. Caufield is one goal from becoming the first Canadiens player to score 50 goals in a season since former-Devils Stanley Cup winner Stephane Richer scored 51 in 1989-90.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to expect from the Devils-Canadiens home-and-home series.<\/p>\n

What to Know vs. Canadiens<\/p>\n

The Devils have won five straight games against the Canadiens, including their 4-3 overtime win at Prudential Center on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n

Devils captain Nico Hischier enters Saturday\u2019s game with a six-game point streak (2 goals, 7 assists)<\/p>\n

Devils forward Jack Hughes has 22 points (9 goals, 13 assists) in the Devils\u2019 past 10 home games and 32 points in 18 games since the Milan\/Cortina Olympics ended<\/p>\n

Caufield will enter the weekend on a four-game goal streak (5 goals)<\/p>\n

Canadiens center Nick Suzuki is seventh in the NHL in points (94) and has three goals and five assists in his four-game point streak<\/p>\n

The Canadiens are 9-3-7 against the Metropolitan Division this season<\/p>\n

2025-26 vs. Canadiens<\/p>\n

11\/6\/25: OTW 4-3 Prudential Center<\/p>\n

4\/4\/26: 7:00 P.M. ET Prudential Center<\/p>\n

4\/5\/26: 7:00 P.M. ET Bell Centre<\/p>\n

Devils vs. Canadiens<\/p>\n

All-time Record: 82-74-10-7<\/p>\n

All-time Home Record: 43-36-4-4<\/p>\n

All-time Road Record: 39-38-6-3<\/p>\n

Projected Devils Lineup*<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

Timo Meier \u2013\u00a0Nico Hischier<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Dawson Mercer<\/p>\n

Jesper Bratt \u2013\u00a0Jack Hughes<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Connor Brown<\/p>\n

Lenni Hameenaho \u2013 Cody Glass \u2013 Nick Bjugstad<\/p>\n

Evgenii Dadonov \u2013 Paul Cotter \u2013 Maxim Tsyplakov<\/p>\n

Defensemen<\/p>\n

Jonas Siegenthaler \u2013 Dougie Hamilton<\/p>\n

Luke Hughes \u2013 Jonathan Kovacevic<\/p>\n

Brenden Dillon \u2013 Simon Nemec<\/p>\n

Goalies<\/p>\n

Jacob Markstrom<\/a><\/p>\n

Jake Allen<\/p>\n

Projected Canadiens Lineup*<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

Cole Caufield \u2013 Nick Suzuki \u2013 Juraj Slafkovsky<\/p>\n

Alex Newhook \u2013 Oliver Kapanen \u2013 Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n

Zack Bolduc \u2013 Jake Evans \u2013 Josh Anderson<\/p>\n

Joe Velano \u2013 Phillip Danault \u2013 Brendan Gallagher<\/p>\n

Defensemen<\/p>\n

Mike Matheson\u2013 Noah Dobson<\/p>\n

Jayden Struble \u2013 Lane Hutson<\/p>\n

Kaiden Guhle \u2013 Arber Zhekaj<\/p>\n

Goalies<\/p>\n

Jakub Dobes<\/p>\n

Jacob Fowler<\/p>\n

How to Watch the Devils Game \u2014 (Saturday, Sunday 7:00 P.M. ET)<\/p>\n

Watch:\u00a0Saturday: MSG, Sunday: MSGSN<\/p>\n

Radio:\u00a0DEVILS HOCKEY NET<\/a><\/p>\n

Next Up<\/p>\n

Tue., April 7 vs PHI 7:00 P.M. ET<\/p>\n

Thu., April 9 vs PIT 7:00 P.M. ET<\/p>\n

Sat., April 11 at DET 5:00 P.M. ET<\/p>\n

Sun., April 12 vs OTT 7:00 P.M. ET<\/p>\n

Tue., April 14 at BOS 7:00 P.M. ET<\/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":"The New Jersey Devils (39-34-2, 8o points) will square against the red-hot Montreal Canadiens (44-21-10, 98 points) in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-540183","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\/116346465978656719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540183","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=540183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}