Everything was amazing to start the New Jersey Devils season. Nikita Gusev started the season off with a goal in the first period to send the team into the first intermission with a lead. In the second period, the doors came off for the Winnipeg Jets, and the Devils scored three more goals, with the fourth of the night coming from a one-handed attempt from Blake Coleman. Honestly, at that point it looked like nothing could go wrong.
Then, the third period happened. The Devils let up a goal very late in the second period, and it apparently drove head coach John Hynes to switch up the lines that gave him a 4-1 lead.