NEWARK, NJ — The Detroit Red Wings dropped a hard-fought road contest to the New Jersey Devils, 4-3, at Prudential Center on Monday night, despite a spirited effort and a late push.
“I thought it was good that we stuck together as a team,” said James van Riemsdyk, who scored his second goal of the season and was playing in his 1,100th career NHL game. ”It was definitely a hard-fought game between two good teams. Tempers raised a little bit at the end there,but we were going to stick together as a team if we felt we didn’t like the play that was made a little bit earlier in the [third] period there.”
The Red Wings (13-9-1; 27 points) were outshot by the Devils (14-7-1; 29 points) 35-19. Cam Talbot made 15 saves in goal for Detroit, while Jacob Markstrom finished with 32 saves for New Jersey.
“They’re going to take liberties,and we have to push back,” said captain Dylan Larkin,who netted his team-leading 13th goal of the season. “They’re trying to bait us into taking a penalty and kind of icing the game that way. They took liberties. Our guy takes one early in the game and he stands up for it, and they don’t do the same. It is what it is. I thought we showed good composure and still had a lot of looks there at the end.”
Timo Meier opened the scoring with a tip-in goal at 12:54 of the first period, giving the Devils a 1-0 lead. Alex DeBrincat answered for the Red Wings at 16:33, capitalizing on a rebound off a Patrick Kane shot.
Moritz Seider recorded the secondary assist on DeBrincat’s 11th goal of the season, tying the game 1-1. DeBrincat has collected 10 points (seven goals, three assists) in his last seven games.
