The power failure for the New Jersey Devils continued Saturday in another shutout loss.
The Boston Bruins’ Tuukka Rask made 31 saves in a 3-0 shutout of the Devils.
“We’re playing good,” Rask said. “I think you know when you finish your season in June, I think it helps everybody kind of have that feeling in the back of your head how to play this game. Systemwise I think we’ve been pretty solid, so I’m just tagging along there.”
The Bruins are playing well, but the Devils are not playing much of anything these days after a shutout loss to the Flyers earlier.
New Jersey dropped to 0-3-2.
“I thought we managed the puck well, we were hard on the puck, we moved it low to high, we had a shot mentality, we got to the net,” New Jersey head coach John Hynes said. “You know, we had I know for sure four Grade-A chances right inside, right in front of the goalie, those prime-time area chances. But when we had them, I thought Rask played well and made some big saves and made some big plays on the power play.”
Brad Marchand , Patrice Bergeron and Joakim Nordstrom scored for the Bruins.
“Yeah, it was obviously nice to get the first one kind of early on,” Nordstrom said. “Kind of get that out of the way. But I thought we were playing well as a line and as a team. It was a tough game, it was a battle.”
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Cory Schneider made 29 saves in the loss.
“Obviously it’s the start of the year, so everything’s magnified and we need to get on the board, we need to start getting points,” Schneider said. “Otherwise you look up and you’re just buried in the standings. So we’re not taking it lightly at all. We’re not just kind of hoping something will happen. We’re just trying to work, and right now it’s just still not good enough. … There’s nothing else we can really do other than continue to just work as hard as we can and keep playing the game the right way.”
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