The New Jersey Devils are a wagon. We’ve heard the term multiple times, but it’s hard to consider them anything but that after their current run of dominance. On Saturday night, they had 50 shots against Ilya Sorokin, and they needed every single one of them to get the win. Jack Hughes scored in overtime for the third time this season, and it came thanks to a huge defensive play by Luke Hughes.
Frankly, this is a game the Devils lost last year. Everything was working against them in the luck factor. Outside of power plays, which the Devils actually led 4-0, the Devils were doing so much and getting such little reward.
At the end of the game, they had 50 shots. At one point, the Islanders had 11 shots and four goals. Jake Allen had a very rough first two periods before shutting things down in the third. Former Devils teams would have turtled when they failed to score on the power play to start the third period.
When Nico Hischier was robbed three times by Ilya Sorokin on extremely high-danger chances, previous Devils teams would have played for the next night. “You can’t win them all” was the previous mantra for this franchise. This feels like a completely different team.
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