Roberto Luongo remains sidelined with a knee injury he sustained during a 4-1 loss against the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday. Luongo skated before the Panthers practiced Monday and remains day to day. Reimer made 36 saves in a 5-4 overtime loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday. The Devils, who have one win in their past five games (1-2-2) will be playing the second half of a back-to-back set after losing 5-2 against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday. Stefan Noesen and Jesper Bratt scored and Cory Schneider made 30 saves while falling to 0-15-2 in his past 17 regular season starts.
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Players to watch
Devils goalie Keith Kinkaid is 3-0-2 with a .927 save percentage in his past five starts. Panthers forward Mike Hoffman has 22 points (11 goals, 11 assists) in his past 19 games, and has at least one point in 18 of them.
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They said it
"We need to have some urgency here. Every time we seem to get a little bit of traction here and there, then all of the sudden something happens, whatever that may be. When there are critical points in the game we've got to dig in and flip it." -- Devils defenseman Andy Greene "We don't have time to feel sorry about ourselves. We just have to go out there tonight, play a new game. When we play the right way we can actually be really good."-- Panthers center Aleksander Barkov
Santini was expected to meet the Devils in Florida after the defenseman's conditioning loan with Binghamton of the American Hockey League was terminated, but he was expected to remain on injured reserve. He sustained a broken jaw Oct. 20. … Panthers coach Bob Boughner said Malgin is day to day.
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Stat pack
Hall needs one assist to reach 300 for his NHL career, and three points for 500. … Huberdeau needs one goal to reach 100.
