Unfortunately, the Devils were unable to keep up with one of the highest-scoring teams in the NHL, falling to the Jets 3-2.
Here are 10 takeaways from the game:
1. Cory Schneider returned to backstop the Devils on Thursday night. Schneider stopped 21 of the 24 shots that he faced in the loss.
2. Devils forward Brian Gibbons returned to the lineup after a 22-game absence with a broken thumb. He played on a line with Brian Boyle and Miles Wood Thursday against the Jets. In his return, he took one shot and played 13:52.
3. The Devils played without forward Pavel Zacha, who was out with an upper-body injury. Without Zacha, the lineup looked as follows:
Hall-Hischier-Bratt
Grabner-Zajac-Palmieri
Maroon-Coleman-Noesen
Gibbons-Boyle-Wood
Greene-Vatanen
Moore-Severson
Butcher-Lovejoy
Schneider
Kinkaid
4. If you're going to leave the league's hottest goal-scorer in close with no one around him, chances are he's going to score. That's exactly what Jets forward Patrick Laine did, scoring one-on-one with Cory Schneider to give the Jets an early 1-0 lead and his 39th goal of the season. By comparison, Schneider came up big with a couple of saves later in the first period, when a shot trickled past him as he lay on his back and swept the puck away at the goal line.