2023020158
[NHL.com Boxscore](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023020158)
|Teams|1st|2nd|3rd|Total|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[NJD](/r/devils)|0|1|0|1|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|0|2|2|4|
##Team Stats
|Team|Shots|Hits|Blocks|FOW%|Giveaways|Takeaways|Power Play|PIM|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[NJD](/r/devils)|34|9|15|61.1%|8|4|0/1|6|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|35|27|8|38.9%|9|10|0/2|4|
##Goals
|Period|Time|Team|Strength|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|2nd|07:12|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Even|[Jake Neighbours (2) wrist shot, assist(s): Sammy Blais (2), Oskar Sundqvist (3)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6340461203112)|
|2nd|09:54|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Even|[Kevin Hayes (1) wrist shot, assist(s): Nick Leddy (2), Jakub Vrana (3)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6340462799112)|
|2nd|16:39|[NJD](/r/devils)|Even|[Curtis Lazar (1) backhand shot, assist(s): Alexander Holtz (2), John Marino (6)](https://players.brightcove.net/6415718365001/EXtG1xJ7H_default/index.html?videoId=6340463131112)|
|3rd|18:23|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Even|Kevin Hayes (2) wrist shot, assist(s): Colton Parayko (1), Jordan Binnington (1)|
|3rd|19:51|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Even|Robert Thomas (3), assist(s): Justin Faulk (2), Kevin Hayes (3)|
##Penalties
|Period|Time|Team|Type|Min|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:-:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|1st|02:08|[NJD](/r/devils)|MIN|2|Luke Hughes interference against Alexey Toropchenko|
|1st|10:50|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|MIN|2|Alexey Toropchenko high-sticking against Jesper Bratt|
|1st|13:37|[NJD](/r/devils)|MIN|2|Brendan Smith delaying-game|
|3rd|08:35|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|MIN|2|Pavel Buchnevich hooking against Brendan Smith|
|3rd|08:35|[NJD](/r/devils)|MIN|2|Brendan Smith embellishment|
**Officials**
* Referees: Dan O’Rourke, Furman South
* Linesmen: Brandon Gawryletz, Travis Toomey
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This team is yet to give me the warm fuzzy feeling i had so many times last year
This game was trash. The refs are trash. Our medical staff fucked up and should’ve pulled Jack for eval before he took another shift – it was up to their discretion and they took too long to make a choice. Should’ve at least told him to wait a min while deciding. Should know more in 24 hours. Best case scenario that can happen is in 48 hours he’s cleared no additional monitoring required. It’s probably not best case.
So now it’s NJ vs everybody including our own trainers / doctor. 😤
Eta: this is literally just the rules on the most recent concussion protocol that the league has. I have no idea about how Jack is or what the injury might mean. This is just the published protocol all teams must follow when a player is pulled for eval and/or hits their head directly or indirectly
Dawson needs to man up like fucking yesterday. If he’s gonna ghost when the teams needs him the most?
Palat and Mercer should be on the 4th line and getting 4 mins a game. Not like they’re doing anything anyways.
Ugly first half or so of the game but pretty good 2nd half. If anything this really felt like a scheduled loss. I’m fine with it. Just hope Jack isn’t out for more than 1-2 games.
Edit: jack’s probably missing more than 2 games, but I can still hope
Pain.
Gonna keep this short because there’s not much to say…
* ***THE GOOD*** – Akira Schmid had his best game of the season. I hope this is the game he can use to build up his confidence, get back to his fighting form, and show us that *Akira, Akira* again.
* **also the good** – without Jack, without Nico, we still showed a lot of fight, we showed a lot of promise, and we really did have control of the game at the end of the second and for most of the third. Unfortunately, all of that meant fuck all.
* ***THE BAD*** – dude, our defense and not just our defensemen, but the forward who are meant to be defending in the defensive zone…come on. If we’re looking at world where we’re going to be playing a number of games without Jack and without Nico, then our defense needs to clean its shit up.
* ***THE UGLY*** – Jack Hughes Injury. That’s all.
I’m not going to try to speculate here on whats wrong, what got hurt, how much time he’ll be out or whatever. All I want is for him to be okay and if he’s not okay, I don’t want him back until he’s okay. Thats it. Period. Same with Nico.
This team – Jesp, Toffee, Timo, Mercy, Pally, Dougie, Holtzy, Lukey, and Haulzy should be able to churn out wins and churn out goals and good games until such a time that those two are back and **one hundred percent**.
I get the initial shell shock of losing the guy who’s lighting the league on fucking fire and I get how lifeless they looked at first, but they did shake it off eventually and they did put up a fight. It’s just that we went up against a Binnington who was doing his best 2019 impression and fuck that man anyhow.
see ya’ll on Sunday for Chicago.
*feel better Jack, we’re all sending you as much healing energy and healthy vibes as possible.*
Jack take my [insert upper body part here]
Really, everything about this game sucked
Could care less about the loss. Seeing Jack and Nico with upper body injuries is nightmare fuel.
What a goddamn disaster. How do we already have so many injuries?
It’s going to be a long few weeks. Going to have to scratch and claw for every possible point.
Money puck has us on 4.28 xG. Hockey stats card has us on 3.56 xG. Sometimes it just be like that. Got the goaltending, and the Gods conspire to be against us. Hope Jack is a minor precautionary sit, hope there’s good news on Nico soon also.
Starting to become a little bit concerned about Dawson Mercer’s slow start. No doubt in mind he returns to being the player from the past couple of seasons, but it has been rough.
Where is palat
Schmid, 31/33, .939. Stood on his head a few times. Had we not been playing 2019 Jordan Bennington, the game
might have a different outcome. Back end of a b2b, superstar goes out in the first. Put the game behind us. Onto Chicago on Sunday night.
“we just want good goaltending!” monkey paw curls. prayers for Jack
This loss isn’t the end of the world
We’re not gonna be a perfect team by any stretch of the imagination. we still have one of the strongest rosters in the league, and we’re gonna be playing lights out more often than not once the season continues
This loss stings cause we lost Jack, and we lost to that piece of shit binington
Let’s move on to Chicago and give bedard a proper welcome to the NHL.
I’ve liked Lindy since he got here. I thought the calls to fire him last year were really stupid. I thought keeping him over Brunette made a decent amount of sense and that the multi-year extension was largely earned.
But if he got fired tomorrow for his handling of injured players, I’d fully understand. Nico clearly concussed? Send him out to get hit a second time before pulling him from the game. Jack breaks himself on the boards and barely moves on the ice for an alarming amount of time? Send him out to get hit again before pulling him from the game. Jesus fucking christ, injuries are going to happen and they suck but we don’t have to compound the problem and put our most crucial players at serious, unnecessary risk each goddamn time.
You know Jack wanted to absolutely clown Bedard on Sunday
Sorry everyone for jinxing Jack with the Tim Hortons hockey cards this morning. Post deleted.
😔
feels so unfair that the first time in years we have a powerhouse offense, and Jack is rocking 2ppg, we lose top 2 Cs to injury in 10 games. Ugh
I know we’ve only been told upper body, but IF both Nico and Jack got concussed and sent back out to play, someone’s gotta get fired lol.
Man, I’m sick. The injuries to Jack and Nico are potential season ruiners. Grim.
How bad was tonight? Was in transit for most of the game.
Hockey gods hate us right now.
This is what needs to happen.
1. Bench Smith when Nico and Jack stop seeing stars and come back
2. Call up someone with a set of fucking balls that will deal with opposing team players taking liberties on top Devil’s players.
3. When the message is delivered league wide, let Smith play again
4. Trade Smith at the Deadline.
5. Repeat #2 as needed till players understand
What happened boys? Was busy. Unlucky game and 2 eng against? One of our games where things shit just goes awry….anything aside from the obvious to be worried ab?
Saw the initial Jack injury. What are we gonna do at center? Haula, Mercer, McLeod, Lazar/Tierney…Idk how well we can hold up.
Obviously, that was awful to watch. The injury to Jack aside, there was a lot of uninspired hockey being played tonight. It was heartening to see guys like Lazar, Luke, and Timo try to take the reins in the third but there were way too many passengers tonight. Yes, second game of a back to back… hopefully we bounce back well.
9 hits to 27? Got pushed around
I’m just fucking angry right now. I’m not getting to sleep anytime soon for sure. This fucking blows. I want to break something.
We **NEED** to get some physicality on this team.
Around the skillful and good teams they are going to play us man-to-man and match our level of play. That’s all fine and dandy.
But, when we play teams shooting for the bottom, they are going to bully us time and time again. We need to sign a bully of our own to just take stuff into their own hands, lay down the law, and protect our stars.