{"id":548742,"date":"2026-04-09T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548742\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:13:19","slug":"game-preview-04-09-26-vs-new-jersey-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548742\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: 04.09.26 vs. New Jersey Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>Quick Hits<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Rust\u00a0has 34 points (18G-16A) and is plus-13 in 43 career games against the Devils. It\u2019s the most points he\u2019s picked up versus any one team and four more than his next closest opponent (Philadelphia, 31 PTS in 39 GP). He has points in six of his last 11 games against the Devils (5G-4A).<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman\u00a0Sam Girard\u00a0has four points (4A) and is plus-7 in his last five games. No one has a better plus\/minus than Girard (+7) since Mar. 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since March 22, no player in the league has more goals than\u00a0Rickard Rakell\u00a0(10).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elmer\u00a0Soderblom\u00a0has six points (3G-3A) over his last six games. He has eight points (4G-4A) in 16 games with Pittsburgh after recording three points (2G-1A) over 39 games with Detroit this year.<\/p>\n<p>Egor Chinakhov\u00a0has 19 points (7G-12A) over his last 17 games and has picked up 33 points (17G-16A) in 40 games since joining the Penguins. Since his Penguins debut on Jan. 1, only\u00a0Rickard Rakell\u00a0(20) has more goals than him on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes Quick Hits Bryan Rust\u00a0has 34 points (18G-16A) and is plus-13 in 43 career games against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548743,"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-548742","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\/116374929175479437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548742","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=548742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}