{"id":543159,"date":"2026-04-06T03:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543159\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:22:43","slug":"devils-end-canadiens-8-game-winning-streak-with-shutout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543159\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils end Canadiens’ 8-game winning streak with shutout"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL — Jacob Markstrom<\/a>\u00a0made 18 saves for his 25th NHL shutout, and the New Jersey Devils ended the Montreal Canadiens eight-game winning streak with a 3-0 victory at Bell Centre on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The shutout is\u00a0Markstrom’s first since April 5, 2025. Timo Meier<\/a>, Cody Glass<\/a> and Connor Brown<\/a>\u00a0each scored, and Jack Hughes tallied two assists for New Jersey (40-34-3), which lost 4-3 to Montreal in the shootout in the first of back-to-back games Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jacob Fowler made 17 saves for the Canadiens (45-22-10), who clinched a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for a second straight season prior to the game when the Detroit Red Wings lost 5-4 to the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n

Montreal, which had not lost since a 3-1 defeat at Detroit on March 19, ended its longest winning streak since a run of nine straight wins from Oct. 7-24, 2015.<\/p>\n

Meier put the Devils up 1-0 at 10:47 of the first period. Hughes’ shot from the left dot trickled through Fowler’s pads, and Meier poked the rebound over the goal line.<\/p>\n

Glass pushed the Devils lead to 2-0 at 18:12 of the second period. Glass gathered the puck in the neutral zone, split the defense, and snapped a shot from the right circle through Fowler’s five-hole.<\/p>\n

Hughes got his second assist when Brown shot into an empty net with 3:25 remaining for the 3-0 final. The New Jersey center has nine points (three goals, six assists) during a three-game point streak, and 13 points (five goals, eight assists) in his past five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL — Jacob Markstrom\u00a0made 18 saves for his 25th NHL shutout, and the New Jersey Devils ended the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543160,"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-543159","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\/116355619915846071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543159","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=543159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}