Know The Enemy – Devils vs Florida Panthers
A few notes and stats to get you caught up on today’s opponent –
New Jersey Devils (10-7-1 / 6-4-0 on the road) at Florida Panthers (10-6-3 / 3-2-3 at home)
- Game info: 7:30 p.m. ET start at BankAtlantic Center. TV: MSG+ RADIO: WFAN 660 AM. Florida TV: FS-F RADIO: 560 WQAM
- For tickets and ticket price data for this game, click here.
- Martin Brodeur will get the start tonight. He’s 36-14-8 with a 2.00 GAA against Florida.
- Rod Pelley will play tonight. He replaces Nick Palmieri who will be a healthy scratch.
- Patrik Elias continued his early-season hot streak with a goal against Tampa. He has 18 points in 18 games and has only three games this season where he hasn’t registered a point.
- Patrik Elias is the leading scorer as a Devil (20g – 20a – 40 pts in 47 games) against the Panthers.
- Ilya Kovalchuk has the most career points (32g – 31a – 63 pts in 53 games) of any current Devil against the Panthers.
- Tonight is the last game of a five-game road trip. The Devils are 3-1-0 so far.
- The Panthers are 1st in the Southeast Division, 3rd in the Eastern Conference, and 12th in the NHL overall.
- This is the first of four meetings between the teams this season. The teams split their four games last season.
Projected Lineups:
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| PARISE – HENRIQUE – KOVALCHUK SYKORA – ELIAS – ZUBRUS TEDENBY – CARTER – CLARKSON PELLEY – MILLS – JANSSEN GREENE – LARSSON BRODEUR |
FLEISCHMANN – WEISS – VERSTEEG BERGENHEIM – SKILLE – KOPECKY STURM – SANTORELLI – DADONOV KENNEDY – MATTHIAS – REPIK CAMPBELL – GARRISON THEODORE |
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Stats |
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| 18 | GP | 19 |
| 10 | W | 10 |
| 7 | L | 6 |
| 1 | OT | 3 |
| 21 | P | 23 |
| 0.583 | P% | 0.605 |
| 2.50 | G/G | 2.90 |
| 2.72 | GA/G | 2.37 |
| 13.4 | PP% | 21.0 |
| 92.8 | PK% | 81.1 |
| 28.2 | S/G | 31.1 |
| 28.0 | SA/G | 33.0 |
| 47.2 | FO% | 50.7 |
2011-2012 Panthers
| # | Pos | Player | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% |
| 32 | R | Kris Versteeg | 19 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 16.7 |
| 14 | L | Tomas Fleischmann | 19 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 17.0 |
| 51 | D | Brian Campbell | 19 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 6.5 |
| 9 | C | Stephen Weiss | 19 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 18.4 |
| 7 | D | Dmitry Kulikov | 19 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 2.9 |
| 82 | R | Tomas Kopecky | 19 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 7.7 |
| 52 | D | Jason Garrison | 19 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 14.0 |
| 43 | D | Mike Weaver | 19 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 |
| 55 | D | Ed Jovanovski | 18 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9.5 |
| 18 | C | Shawn Matthias | 18 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 8.3 |
| 13 | C | Mike Santorelli | 12 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 12.0 |
| 12 | R | Jack Skille | 18 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2.5 |
| 19 | L | Scottie Upshall | 15 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 3.2 |
| 16 | L | Marco Sturm | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 5.0 |
| 22 | R | Matt Bradley | 17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.3 |
| 57 | C | Marcel Goc | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 |
| 20 | L | Sean Bergenheim | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 5.6 |
| 63 | R | Evgenii Dadonov | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 40.0 |
| 8 | L | Tim Kennedy | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 16.7 |
| 4 | D | Keaton Ellerby | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 |
| 73 | C | Bracken Kearns | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 27 | R | Michal Repik | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 |
| 44 | D | Erik Gudbranson | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 |
| # | Goalie | GPI | GS | Min | GAA | W | L | OT | SO | SA | GA | Sv% | G | A | PIM |
| 60 | Jose Theodore | 14 | 14 | 830 | 2.46 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 439 | 34 | .923 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Jacob Markstrom | 5 | 4 | 264 | 2.05 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 161 | 9 | .944 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Scott Clemmensen | 1 | 1 | 60 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NEW JERSEY Devils vs FLORIDA Panthers
All-Time regular season record vs Panthers:
(W – L – T – OT L – SO L)
43 – 21 – 7 – 2 – 0
Goals for: 204 Goals against: 154
All-Time post season record vs Panthers:
4 – 0
Goals for: 12 Goals against: 6
Home games vs Panthers: 25 – 9 – 3 – 1 – 0
Road games vs Panthers: 22 – 12 – 4 – 1 – 0
Last season: 2 – 2
Sat Jan 15 2011 at Fla – Florida 3, New Jersey 2 (OT)
Sun Jan 23 2011 at NJ – New Jersey 5, Florida 2
Fri Feb 4 2011 at NJ – Florida 4, New Jersey 3 (OT)
Sun Feb 27 2011 at Fla – New Jersey 2, Florida 1
This season:
Mon Nov 21 2011 – NJ at Fla
Tue Dec 13 2011 – NJ at Fla
Fri Jan 6 2012 – Fla at NJ
Sat Feb 11 2012 – Fla at NJ
LET’S GO DEVILS!
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