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Photo by Andy Marlin/NHLI via Getty Images After about ten months - 310 days to be exact - the New Jersey Devils played their first game of meaningful ice hockey against an opponent. The opponent was the Boston Bruins, who last played a game on August 31 in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. How would the game begin between two teams who have been inactive for at least four months and had no preseason games to get ready? It would go absolutely poorly for the New Jersey Devils. The Devils played like it was a training camp scrimmage. The Bruins played like it was an actual NHL game. It is fro...

Just after the goal, Chris Kreider took a tripping call on Yegor Sharangovich, and the Devils went to the power play. Mika Zibanejad tried to make something happen shorthanded on a long pass, but was defended well but Jack Hughes. The Devils did not get much going for the first minute of the power play, and changed units about 50 seconds in. Ty Smith made a pass into the slot on Johnsson’s tape, but Johnsson was in tight coverage and lost the puck. The Rangers got two successive clears afterwards. Michael McLeod almost made a great play with a pass across Georgiev for Nathan Bastian after ...