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Two consecutive defeats take the New Jersey Devils (2nd in Metropolitan Division) to a road contest against the Florida Panthers (4th in Atlantic), who are currently riding a five-game point streak with four victories.
The New Jersey Devils (44-17-7) dropped their second consecutive decision (0-1-1) after rounding off their latest three-game homestand with a 1-1-1 total following a 4-3 shootout setback against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Prudential Center on Thursday. Timo Meier (34 goals, 56 points this year) bagged two regulation snipes for the Devils, who tied the game on three occasions before being beaten with two markers to one in three rounds of the skills competition. Tomas Tatar (16 goals, 40 points) also tallied during regular play, while Yegor Sharangovich (12 goals, 27 points) scored the only shootout snipe for New Jersey, which lost two games in a row for the first time since Dec. 23-28.
Goalie Akira Schmid made 21 saves on Thursday and has now gone 8-4-2 for the season with a 1.98 GAA and a .924 save percentage. He has recorded a 0-1 -0 past tally versus Florida with a 3.11 GAA and a .893 save percentage, while Vitek Vanecek (28-8-3 on the year with a 2.52 GAA and a .908 save percentage) is 0-0-1 against the Panthers previously with a 3.30 GAA and a .867 save percentage. The Devils, meanwhile, are netting the 4th highest amount of goals per game this season (3.49), while giving up the 4th lowest quantity defensively (2.66). They are 15th in power play (21.5%) and 9th in penalty kill (82.0%).
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