New Jersey managed to end a series of four defeats in the regular season of the NHL championship. After losing on December 29, in Raleigh against Carolina (5-2), on January 1 in Anaheim (3-2), on January 2 in Los Angeles (3-0) and on January 4 in San Jose (3 -2), the Devils pocketed the two points, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle against the Kraken (2-3).
Swiss skaters were no strangers to this success. This is how the Valais center player Nico Hischier (26 years old) and the Appenzell winger Timo Meier (28 years old) were credited with an assist on the opening score attributed in the 8th minute to the Canadian winger Dawson Mercer.
This is how – above all – “Captain Nico”, who skated for 22’32”, was exemplary in his defensive involvement and in the management of sequences spent in numerical inferiority.
As for the Zurich defender from New Jersey, Jonas Siegenthaler (27), he certainly put his team in difficulty by receiving a costly penalty (Seattle took the opportunity to score 2-2). But he returned the best differential among all the backs used by coach Sheldon Keefe (+2).
In the Eastern Conference standings, the Devils are 4th with a record of 53 points in 43 matches.
In the same hierarchy, the Montreal Canadian, who beat Vancouver at the Bell Center (5-4 ap), is on the right side of the bar for the first time since April 2021 (8th, 40 outings, 41 points ). Under the leadership of coach Martin Saint-Louis, the Habs have won eight of their last ten duels and are the team of the hour in the North American professional league.
A Swiss learned it the hard way: the Zurich center of the Canucks, Pius Suter (28 years old) sweated for 18’08” on the playing area of the Quebec metropolis and ended the game with a negative result ( -1).
NHL. Monday’s matches.
Montreal – Vancouver 5-4 ap
Buffalo – Washington 4-3 tab
