Coming in to Tuesday night, all New Jersey Devils fans cared about was beating the New York Rangers. It doesn’t matter that it was just a preseason game, beating the Rangers is always the top priority.
Then, we saw what happened on the ice. A lot of really great things happened. Nikita Gusev looked like a superstar. Nico Hischier scored a goal less than a minute into the game. Sami Vatanen continued his really good preseason, this time without P.K. Subban.
Still, nothing in this game was better than what Mikhail Maltsev did.