Here are some observations from the game:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Connor Brown earned his 300th NHL point with his secondary assist on Jesper Bratt’s second goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Nico Hischier is closing in on 1000 faceoff wins this season. He had another nine against the Red Wings to bring his league-leading total to 985. Hischier\u00a0also leads the league in faceoffs taken, with 1763. Second to Hischier is Carolina\u2019s Jordan Staal, who trails Hischier by a significant margin with 1482.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hischier finished second in the league last season with 987 wins, trailing only Sidney Crosby’s 1016.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Red Wings, who were desperate to keep their playoff hopes alive, came out firing on all cylinders, outshooting New Jersey 9-0 after the opening 10 minutes of the game. Jake Allen was superb, especially with the Red Wings on the power play early, stopping all four shots the Devils faced shorthanded in the opening nine and a half minutes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the Red Wings’ 10th shot, with 10:17 remaining in the period, Justin Faulk put Detroit up 1-0, and 10-0 in shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 But it’s about quality, not quantity, because the Wings wouldn’t hold on to their lead very long. Fifty-nine seconds after the Faulk goal, Jesper Bratt picked up the puck off the halfwall in the DZone and chipped it up the ice to Hughes, who was skating up the right wing. Connor Brown rushed up the ice with Hughes, with Jacob Bernard-Docker the lone Red Wing left to defend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hughes did have the option to pass to Brown, but elected to take the shot, his wrister, wiring its way past John Gibson to tie the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cody Glass continues to build on his career-year, with his 19th goal of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0“I have a role here,” Glass said “When you put your mind away from scoring goals and I\u2019m here to take DZone faceoffs, be good defensively and take some of the stress off the top players, defensive-wise, once you forget about points and scoring, they kind of just find your stick and it becomes easier that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jesper Bratt’s first goal wasn’t quite a typical Bratt goal. This one came off causing some confusion with the high-cycle and defensemen getting involved. Bratt explains:\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve been talking a lot about that too, having the D drive through and create some time and space, especially for guys like me and Jack to roll high and create a lot of confusion, man-on-man defense,\u201d Bratt said of his first goal. \u201cKind of just getting different guys boxing out on their team, have some forwards play defense, things like that. We\u2019ve been talking about creating a high cycle to get some confusion. I just tried to sift it in there, and there were a lot of guys and bodies in front. I know it\u2019s hard as a goalie to see that puck.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Devils’ victory put the Eastern Conference playoff picture into a little more clarity, securing the Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins spot in the post-season with Detroit’s elimination.<\/p>\n
\u2022 One day after being called up from Utica, Nico Daws backed up Jake Allen in net. Daws will start on Sunday, at home, against the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Defenseman Topias Vilen took warmups with the Devils, one day after being called up, but did not play. He will make his NHL debut on Sunday, Keefe confirmed, against the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are some observations from the game: \u2022 Connor Brown earned his 300th NHL point with his secondary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-550863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-red-wings","14":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116390001648775147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550863","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=550863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}