For most of today’s game between the New Jersey Devils and the Montreal Canadiens, there was little to be happy about. The only good things for the first fifty minutes of the game from a Devils perspective were the following:
- Goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood was in net and he was sensational. Montreal hit him with a deluge of shots and Blackwood was on form. He was beaten only twice: an open wrist shot from inside of the left circle by Jesperi Kotkanniemi and a long shot by Jeff Petry re-directed in by Phillip Danault.