New Jersey Devils Shut Out Again by Sergei Bobrovsky & Columbus Blue Jackets

Well, call him Triple H, because he was the Game tonight.Sergei Bobrovsky is hot right now. Sure, he shut out the New Jersey Devils on Sunday. That was a game where the Devils skated like they had two left skates, passed like they just learned about it from watching .GIFs on Reddit, and played with the level of teamwork of five strangers meeting each other for the first time at pick-up basketball. The Devils were awful against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday with a 22-shot effort. Tonight, the New Jersey Devils were much more competent. They attacked the Blue Jackets more and more often. While there were lulls in the attack, the Devils made Columbus and Bobrovsky work much harder. The Devils gave Mr. Bobrovsky sixteen in the first period alone and thirty-three overall. The Devils gave Mr. Bobrovsky plenty of shots in close-range and pushed for second-chance opportunities. The Devils made Columbus pay for their errors, forcing Bobrovsky to be great. Unfortunately for the Devils, Bobrovsky was sensational tonight. He stopped all the straight-up shot attempts, the rebound attempts, the pucks coming through traffic, and all of the others for his third straight shutout. The Devils lost their eighth in a row 0-2 namely because of how great Bobrovsky played.

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