This morning, the New Jersey Devils entered the Rock with a three game winless streak to play a Florida Panthers team, who won last night and was hungry for more points after a poor start. Just before 3 PM Eastern Time, the Devils snapped the winless streak by snapping the Panthers in a 3-2 victory. Do not let the close score fool you, it was not that close of a game.
At least, it was not that close in the first forty minutes. The Devils were sloppy for the first eighteen minutes. The Panthers were similarly sloppy as they generated all of one dangerous scoring chance in 5-on-5 play, which was denied by Pavel Zacha.