2023020810
[NHL.com Boxscore](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023020810)
|Teams|1st|2nd|3rd|OT|Total|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[NJD](/r/devils)|0|0|0|0|0|
|[CAR](/r/canes)|0|0|0|1|1|
##Team Stats
|Team|Shots|Hits|Blocks|FOW%|Giveaways|Takeaways|Power Play|PIM|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[NJD](/r/devils)|34|26|24|43.6%|13|10|0/4|6|
|[CAR](/r/canes)|33|28|15|56.4%|31|12|0/2|10|
##Goals
|Period|Time|Team|Strength|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|OT|03:40|[CAR](/r/canes)|Even|Sebastian Aho (19) bat shot, assist(s): Martin Necas (19), Jaccob Slavin (18)|
##Penalties
|Period|Time|Team|Type|Min|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:-:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|1st|01:06|[CAR](/r/canes)|MIN|2|Teuvo Teravainen tripping against Timo Meier|
|1st|04:14|[NJD](/r/devils)|MIN|2|Timo Meier interference against Michael Bunting|
|1st|12:14|[CAR](/r/canes)|MIN|2|Jalen Chatfield delaying-game-puck-over-glass|
|2nd|00:40|[CAR](/r/canes)|MIN|2|Andrei Svechnikov tripping against Jesper Bratt|
|2nd|12:48|[NJD](/r/devils)|MIN|2|Nathan Bastian roughing against Michael Bunting|
|2nd|12:48|[CAR](/r/canes)|MIN|2|Michael Bunting roughing against Nathan Bastian|
|3rd|08:56|[NJD](/r/devils)|MIN|2|Ondrej Palat high-sticking against Jordan Martinook|
|3rd|11:27|[CAR](/r/canes)|MIN|2|Martin Necas high-sticking against John Marino|
**Officials**
* Referees: Dan O’Rourke, Michael Markovic
* Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Devin Berg
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We may never score on the PP again.
Some of the best forechecking I’ve seen all season. The Dub woulda been super nice.
I feel like shuffling the forward lines after a 42 shot game and gettting goose egged may be related. Who made that decision?
Defense wins championships… one of our best defensive games all season and look what happens. Keep that going and we will be fine. Our offense will eventually find itself.
I think they were far too cute with the puck most of the night, overcomplicating things instead of playing a simple road game and it bit them in the ass. Not much else to say really. Cant blame Vitek on that one.
All i hope for is a win in the stadium series game against Filthadelphia. That’s it. Playoffs are a pipe dream at this point.
The end fucking stings but it’s really hard to be all “same ol’ VV” on that one. He pitched a shutout all through regulation. Aho knocking the puck in out of midair was just a good play. We had plenty of scoring chances just not go and it’s good we walked away with something. This is not a game to doom about. We just might yet sneak into a wild card spot if they’re able to keep this level of compete up
So all in all, I ain’t mad. I started the game barely caring because I expected the worst and they reeled me back in
Still gave up the first goal in all that lmao
The worst goalie in the league gives you 60 shutout minutes and you lose anyway. Go figure.
Season from hell rolls on.
People saying we played well and it was definitely better, sure. But I thought Carolina were pretty poor by their standards and we should be taking advantage and winning that game.
Ultimately not good enough again and the playoffs are further away than they were pre-game.
There’s too much ground to make up and too many teams to leap over. Have to win games like these.
Gut wrenching loss. I just want the season to be over. This has been the season from hell.
It really sucks that’s the devils aren’t completely out of it because I’m hanging on to hope that they’ll be the panthers of last year and go on a run but at this point, it feels like loss hope. Not a bad game by any stretch but the end result just rips your heart out
Season is so bad we even traveled back in time and lost to Hartford again.
Can only lose like 8 more games. Season is toast anyway
Vitek fucking Vanacek have you a regulation shutout and you can’t even score? What the hell dude? At least we got a point but we could’ve gotten 2…
Genuine question when is the last time we had a season this horrible?
Of fucking course i go to the 1 game where vitek plays well and then proceeds to get 0 zero fucking goal support. My liver will fight a losing battle in the hptel room tonight
Truly believe there is not a single goalie on an any NHL roster that is incapable of shutting this offense down. It’s just abysmal how they make everyone look world class
Seasons fucked
That one stung
Fire Lindy
I have been liking the defensive effort since the All-Star break. They seem to have eliminated the epic defensive gaffes and giveaways. It’s probably too little too late but I still like what I see.
Too much focusing on the negative here. I feel better about this team after this game than before it.
I hate losing to canes, damn that hurts
If they play like that the rest of the season, they can make the playoffs
The song I need help with IDing plays at the 12:14 stoppage of the 3rd period
Look I have been down for a bit on this team but that game gave me some hope.
I’m not saying playoffs are a lock. I’m not saying this team deserves them. But mathematically it is not out of the question at all and performances like that show it’s possible.
I’ll take it. Play like this ever and you really can’t complain. Loss stings but there were a lot of great takeaways from this game.
I feel like they’ve changed up their defensive system since after the all star break. We’re doing a better job or crashing in front of our net, keeping pucks to the outside and clearing the crease of garbage.
they played well it just didn’t go in, in a vacuum this game wouldn’t really bother anyone, but given the context of the season, honestly, its irritating and disappointing.
Need 20-22 wins to make the playoffs. Time’s up folks. Barring a miraculous run this season is lost. Downvote me all you want you know it’s the truth.
Need to turn into sellers at the deadline. Let Toffoli go and give Holtz his ice time so he can develop and show what he’s got while he can build some chemistry with some top 6 guys. Be realistic. This team is going nowhere this year. I’m still optimistic about the next 5 years. I trust that Fitz will get Lindy the fuck out of here and get a consistent goalie
For everyone giving Lindy flowers for making defensive adjustments–why did it take him 50+ games into the season to do it? Our goalies have been trash from Day 1. It’s not like he didn’t know that they needed some extra help. And maybe in the interim our forwards could have learned how to score while playing a defense-centric game.
They played well, but they need to be consistent. We’ve been feeling good about a game only to be destroyed the next one. If we don’t string at least 3 well played games this is a fluke to me
Much like Lindy, I’m giving up on this team
Disappointing ending for sure, but hopefully the D continues that play.
We all know the potential of Luke and Nemec, but I feel like Big Bahl played a damn solid game and was quite noticeable laying some big hits.
He’s been up and down this year admittedly, but he showed the potential this game to be a big shutdown guy with a good slapper from the point. Maybe a little bias, love a good big dman, but he’s certainly part of our future core blue line.
The difference between us and Carolina was painted picture perfect in the OT. We’re very talented but even in 3 on 3, they meet us a lot closer to the blue line than we meet them. We sacrifice the middle ground so quickly that any bigger team that isn’t dog slow knows it will have more space than it should to operate. Still, overall this game was pretty good. I’d be happy with the point, if not for the fact that every point we miss means another game of streak we’ll need to dig ourselves out of point debt.
Timo Meier is -25 this year in 37 games played. Congratulations to everyone who bought a Timo jersey before he proved himself to the team. You played yourself.
Look at the standings people. We have GIH on Philly and Det. We’re not out of it — it just feels that way. We do need a heater but the three points in the last three games isn’t a disaster. It’s more how it went down.
Honestly that was a very enjoyable game and I’m happy about that. There’s no enjoyment for me to watch every game, win or lose, and just gripe about the bad things every time. I’ve decided I’m gonna go back to taking it game by game and looking at the positives, constantly watching the standings is gonna just stress me out unless we’re the #1 team in the league by 20 points, so no use in doing it.
We needed good goaltending and we got it. Played decent D too. Ton of back and forth without lots of stoppages, fun game to watch.
Finally a game where the D and goaltending show up and the offense doesn’t do shit. Kind of hilarious. It’s not over, but essentially it’s over. Enjoy the rest of the season just game by game