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The Devils finish their season-opening five-game road trip in Vegas against the Golden Knights Monday night. The game can be seen on MSG+ and heard on the Devils Hockey Network, including right here at NewJerseyDevils.com. Puck drop is 10:08 p.m. ET.
Here are some observations from the game...
- New Jersey's Jesper Bratt became the first Devils player to score an NHL goal in the city of Seattle for the franchise with a tally at the 3:12 mark of the first period. It also helped him accomplish a few other things during a career season. It was his (new career high) 25th goal of the season and (new career high) 70th point of the year. Bratt is the first Devils player to reach 70 points since Taylor Hall's 93 in 2017-18. He's also the eighth youngest Devils player in team history to reach 200 career points at 23 years, 260 days.
- The Devils power play went 0 for 3 in the game. They've now gone 25 opportunities straight and nine consecutive games without scoring a goal. The last man-advantage tally was March 27 against Montreal. The power play could have been a difference maker, and instead it anchored the Devils down.
"That's probably the reason we lost the game. Our power play wasn't good enough," head coach Lindy Ruff said. "When we did get opportunities we missed the net. Our execution inside the zone wasn't very good.
"We could have generated momentum. We could have generated some good energy. But we didn't."
It's also no coincidence that the last power-play goal scored by New Jersey was by Jack Hughes. His importance to the unit and to the team cannot be overstated enough. It's just a completely different man-advantage when he's in the lineup.
"It's almost like we're missing a little bit of that swagger that we had," Severson said. "The swagger we had back when we had that stretch where we were getting a goal a game or two goals a game. Obviously, we miss Jack right now. He's the catalyst on our power play."
- Severson scored his 11th goal of the season, a new career high. It was also his 51st career goal, moving him into fourth place on the Devils all-time scoring list for a defenseman, passing Joe Cirella. He'll need to reach 83 to catch third-place Bruce Driver.The Devils' "fourth line" helped chip in with two goals. Michael McLeod and Nathan Bastian picked up assists on Bratt's opening goal (he had stepped onto the ice to replace Andreas Johnsson). McLeod also made a beautiful cross-ice for Severson's goal. In the third period McLeod picked up two helpers in the game.
"It's awesome to have any personal success you can. But personal success should follow team success," Severson said. "It's always fun to put your name with some of the groups among the Devils defensemen list, but hopefully I have a long way to go."
- Congratulations are in order for Beniers. Seattle's first-ever draft pick (2nd overall last season) scored his first-career NHL goal on the power play. Beniers was known as a hard-nosed player at the University of Michigan, so it shouldn't be surprising that the goal came as he was crashing the net on a power play stuffed in a rebound. A big moment for him, his family, the Kraken franchise and their fans.
