NEW JERSEY DEVILS NOTES:
CURRENT INJURIES/ILLNESS
PLAYER INJURY/Illness OUT SINCE GAMES MISSED
Tomas Nosek Upper-body Nov. 22 (suffered 11/18) 6
Erik Haula Lower-body Nov. 28 (suffered 11/25) 3
Dougie Hamilton Upper-body Nov. 30 (suffered 11/28) 2
2023-24 Total Man-Games Lost : 57
RECORD BY DIVISION/CONFERENCE:
MET: 4-4-0
ATL: 4-2-0
CEN: 3-3-1
PAC: 0-1-0
EAST: 8-6-0
BACK-TO-BACK GAME
Overall: 5-3-1 First game: 4-1-0 | home: 1-1-0 | road: 3-0-0
Second game: 1-3-1 | home: 1-2-1 | road: 0-1-0
New Jersey logged a 15-8-1 record in back-to-back games last season. The Devils were 6-5-1 in first half games played and 9-3-0 in second half games played for this matter in 2022-23. WEST: 3-4-1
RECORD WHEN SCORING FIRST
Scoring first…4-1-0…
Trailing first…7-9-1
VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:
MATCHUPP INFO
• Tonight marks the first of two meetings between the Canucks and Devils this season: Dec. 5 (home), Jan. 6 (road). • Vancouver is 58-41-17-4 all-time against New Jersey, including a 32-14-11-2 record on home ice. • The Canucks are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games against the Devils (1-3-1 in their last five). • J.T. Miller leads all active Canucks skaters in scoring against the Devils with 15 points (4-11-15) in 28 career games. • Ilya Mikheyev has 5 points (3-2-5) in 5 career games against New Jersey. • Thatcher Demko is 1-2-0 with a 2.57 GAA and a .921 SV% in four career games against the Devils. • In eight career games (3-3-0), Casey DeSmith has a 2.69 GAA and a .922 SV% all-time against New Jersey.
QUICK NUMBERS
• Quinn Hughes has registered 18 points (5-13-18) in his last 15 games, totaling 34 points overall (9-25-34). He ranks t-5th amongst all skaters in points and he is third in the league for assists (25). Hughes is also t-1st for points amongst blueliners. • J.T. Miller has 36 points overall this season (13-23-36) and has 20 points (7-13-20) in his last 15 games. He ranks t-2nd in the league for points. • Brock Boeser has scored 17 goals this season, ranking 1st in the league. • Filip Hronek has six points (1-5-6) in his last five games. Hronek ranks t-3rd for points amongst defensemen. • Quinn Hughes and Filip Hronek have the most points by a defencemen duo this season (59). • The Vancouver Canucks are currently second in the Western Conference and fourth in the league. They also have the highest goal differential (+32) in the league. • The Canucks have scored the first goal of a game 17 times this season, tied for the most times in the NHL this season. The team is 13-4-0 when they score first.
LAST MEETING – FEB. 6/23: VAN 4 at NJD 5 (OT)
Andrei Kuzmenko opened the scoring 3:35 into the first period…Luke Schenn and Elias Pettersson recorded the assists…Schenn scored his third of the season with 4:31 left in the second period…Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Conor Garland picked up the assists…Curtis Lazar slid home his second of the season with 27 seconds left in the second…Riley Stillman and Garland were credited with the assists…Phil Di Giuseppe scored his first as a Canuck just past the six-minute mark of the third to tie the game…J.T. Miller and Ekman-Larsson recorded the assists…Quinn Hughes led the team with five shots on goal…Lazar led the team with five hits…Delia made 29 saves.
LAST 5 – NEW JERSEY
• Feb. 6/23: VAN 4 at NJD 5 (OT)
• Nov. 1/22: VAN 2 vs NJD 5
• Mar. 15/22: VAN 6 vs NJD 3
• Feb. 28/22: VAN 2 at NJD 7
• Nov. 10/19: VAN 1 vs NJD 2
