{"id":543095,"date":"2026-04-06T02:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543095\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:32:34","slug":"devils-beat-montreal-3-0-ending-the-playoffs-bound-canadiens-8-game-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543095\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils beat Montreal 3-0, ending the playoffs-bound Canadiens&#8217; 8-game winning streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Jacob Markstrom made 18 saves for his first shutout of the season and the New Jersey Devils beat Montreal 3-0 on Sunday night, ending the Canadiens&#8217; eight-game winning streak hours after they clinched a second straight playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens got the playoff spot when Detroit lost 5-4 to Minnesota. They are the first Canadian team to secure a playoff berth this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cody Glass, Timo Meier and Connor Brown scored for New Jersey as it fights to keep its slim postseason chances alive. Jack Hughes had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils won their 11th consecutive game in Montreal, the longest active run in the NHL against a single opponent. The Canadiens haven\u2019t beaten New Jersey at the Bell Centre since a 2-1 overtime victory on Dec. 14, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Fowler made 17 saves for Montreal. The Canadiens capped an undefeated five-game trip with a 4-3 shootout win over the Devils in New Jersey on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s Cole Caufield remained a goal short of 50 for the second straight game after scoring his 48th and 49th on Thursday night against the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Meier scored on a tap-in midway through the first period after a shot from Hughes went through Fowler\u2019s legs and hit the post. Glass burst through the neutral zone and beat Fowler late in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Brown added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Devils: Host Philadelphia on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: Host Florida on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Jacob Markstrom made 18 saves for his first shutout of the season and the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[265,1774,971,957,599,201,62,5,1272,3567,512,161,264,576,151,35,5185,5184,4,1467,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-543095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-cody-glass","10":"tag-cole-caufield","11":"tag-connor-brown","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-devils","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-jack-hughes","17":"tag-jacob-fowler","18":"tag-jacob-markstrom","19":"tag-minnesota","20":"tag-montreal","21":"tag-new-jersey","22":"tag-new-jersey-devils","23":"tag-new-york-rangers","24":"tag-newjersey","25":"tag-newjerseydevils","26":"tag-nhl","27":"tag-philadelphia","28":"tag-timo-meier"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116355422211600219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543095","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=543095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}