Know The Enemy – Devils vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

Posted by SpeakoftheDevs on January 14, 2011

A few notes and stats to get you caught up on tonight’s opponent – Devils (11-29-2) at Lightning (26-13-5):

- Martin Brodeur will get the start today. He will face Dwayne Roloson.

- The Devils’ lines are expected to be the same as the last game.

- Anton Volchenkov will miss today’s game. He still has not returned from Russia after the death of his father.

- This is the second game in a row against the Lightning for the Devils. They defeated Tampa at The Rock on Sunday.

2010-2011 LIGHTNING

#	Pos	Player	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%
91	C	Steven Stamkos	44	31	26	57	9	34	13	0	6	163	19.0
26	R	Martin St Louis	44	18	35	53	3	8	2	0	5	148	12.2
6	L	Ryan Malone	44	11	21	32	-7	44	9	0	1	132	8.3
16	R	Teddy Purcell	44	7	18	25	-7	8	1	0	0	105	6.7
4	C	Vincent Lecavalier	28	7	12	19	-8	10	3	0	1	82	8.5
10	L	Sean Bergenheim	42	8	10	18	1	34	1	0	1	100	8.0
7	D	Brett Clark	44	7	10	17	-9	8	5	0	1	50	14.0
9	R	Steve Downie	28	3	14	17	-2	85	2	0	0	38	7.9
19	C	Dominic Moore	39	8	8	16	-16	30	2	0	2	89	9.0
44	C	Nate Thompson	44	6	10	16	-3	17	0	0	2	70	8.6
77	D	Victor Hedman	43	2	13	15	-4	42	0	0	0	57	3.5
13	D	Pavel Kubina	44	2	12	14	-6	42	0	0	2	50	4.0
18	R	Adam Hall	44	6	5	11	-6	19	0	0	1	101	5.9
8	D	Randy Jones	39	1	9	10	-8	6	0	0	0	29	3.4
42	C	Dana Tyrell	41	4	6	10	1	4	0	0	0	44	9.1
12	L	Simon Gagne	26	4	4	8	-20	4	2	0	1	70	5.7
39	D	Mike Lundin	44	0	8	8	-5	2	0	0	0	29	0.0
21	C	Mattias Ritola	22	2	4	6	-5	11	0	0	1	26	7.7
5	D	Mattias Ohlund	36	0	5	5	0	32	0	0	0	21	0.0
49	C	Blair Jones	9	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	9	11.1
24	L	Johan Harju	7	1	1	2	-3	2	0	0	0	7	14.3
34	C	Marc-Antoine Pouliot	3	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	2	0.0
32	D	Matt Smaby	20	0	0	0	1	13	0	0	0	7	0.0
28	D	Mathieu Roy	4	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	1	0.0
48	D	Michael Vernace	8	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	5	0.0
43	C	James Wright	1	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0.0

#	Goalie	GPI	GS	Min	GAA	W	L	OT	SO	SA	GA	Sv%	G	A	PIM
33	Dan Ellis	27	23	1440	3.13	11	7	5	2	637	75	.882	0	1	0
35	Dwayne Roloson	24	24	1416	2.50	9	14	1	2	741	59	.920	0	2	2
41	Mike Smith	17	15	899	3.20	10	5	0	0	411	48	.883	0	0	2
30	Cedrick Desjardins	2	2	120	1.00	2	0	0	0	63	2	.968	0	0	0

NEW JERSEY Devils vs. TAMPA BAY Lightning

All-Time regular season record vs Bolts:
(W – L – T – OT L – SO L)
44 – 17 – 7 – 3 – 1

Goals for: 240 Goals against: 158

All-Time post season record vs Bolts:
8 – 3

Goals for: 33 Goals against: 22

Home games vs Bolts: 30 – 9 – 2 – 1 – 1

Road games vs Bolts: 22 – 11 – 5 – 2 – 0

Last season: 3 – 1
Oct 8, 2009 @ TB – New Jersey 4 – 3 Tampa Bay (SO)
Oct 31, 2009 @ TB – New Jersey 2 – 1 Tampa Bay (SO)
Dec 4, 2009 @ NJ – New Jersey 3 – 2 Tampa Bay
Jan 8, 2010 @ NJ – Tampa Bay 4 – 2 New Jersey

This season:
Sunday January 9th, 2011 – Tampa 3 – 6 NJ
Friday January 14th, 2011 – NJ at Tampa
Friday February 25th, 2011 – NJ at Tampa
Wednesday March 2nd, 2011 – Tampa at NJ

NJD v TBL