Apr 20, 2025; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Carolina Hurricanes heart Logan Stankoven (22) battles for the puck towards New Jersey Devils defenseman Luke Hughes (43) through the third interval of sport one of many first spherical of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Lenovo Heart. Necessary Credit score: James Guillory-Imagn Photographs The New Jersey Devils aren’t positive precisely who will probably be out there as they attempt to rebound in Recreation 2 of their Stanley Cup playoffs first-round sequence towards the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday in Raleigh, N.C.
The Devils, already with out star ahead Jack Hughes and defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler for the sequence due to accidents, had defenseman Brenden Dillon go away Recreation 1 within the second interval and ahead Cody Glass within the third. Defenseman Luke Hughes additionally left within the third however returned.
The Hurricanes took benefit to earn a convincing 4-1 victory Sunday and take the early sequence lead.
New Jersey will not know who will probably be out there till sport time Tuesday. Devils coach Sheldon Keefe, nevertheless, was involved solely about how the workforce performed, at the least publicly.
“To a person, myself included, we’re all going to should be higher,” Keefe stated.
Carolina outshot New Jersey 45-24 in Recreation 1.
“(Throughout) 5-on-5, I actually did not have a whole lot of points with our sport apart from what we anticipated with the power and the tempo,” Keefe stated. “I assumed within the second interval, we have been simply overwhelmed and that was not ok. Third interval was good, however the injury is finished by then.”
Hurricanes defenseman Jalen Chatfield scored early within the first interval earlier than ahead Logan Stankoven scored twice within the second. Stankoven’s second objective, on the facility play, put Carolina up 3-0 earlier than Nico Hischier acquired the Devils on the board with somewhat over a minute left within the center interval.
Andrei Svechnikov added an empty-net objective late within the third interval for Carolina.
“For us to win, we’ll want 20 guys chipping in. I feel that is what we acquired tonight,” Hurricanes’ coach Rod Brind’Amour stated. “We have been able to go. That first objective, I feel, is large simply to actually settle every little thing. It means that you can preserve staying the course.”
Chatfield scored on a screened wrist shot from the correct level 2:24 into the sport.
“We known as that play, we run it so much,” Chatfield stated. “(It is) simply getting pucks to the web. We did job attending to the entrance and inflicting chaos.”
Stankoven stored the momentum rolling within the second interval together with his pair of targets.
“It was simply good to get the primary one out of the way in which and begin off on the correct foot,” Stankoven stated. “Whenever you come right into a sequence, the primary one is massive, however there’s a whole lot of hockey left to play. It was a whole lot of enjoyable enjoying on the market.”
Hischier’s objective with 1:09 left within the second gave New Jersey some hope after that they had been outshot 38-13 within the first two intervals.
“We now have to work more durable, create, create your personal lanes to the web,” New Jersey ahead Timo Meier stated. “They’re sturdy and so they battle onerous, they compete, all issues we all know. And like I stated, we’ve got a sport plan. We acquired to execute it higher.”
Stated Keefe: “We’re not going to get so much. That is the fact of it while you play a workforce like Carolina. They will make it actual onerous on you, however that stated, you had greater than sufficient to attain greater than we did. There are some alternatives there.”
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