Know The Enemy – Devils vs Montreal Canadiens
A few notes and stats to get you caught up on today’s opponent –
Devils (18-30-4 / 8-17-1 on the road) at Canadiens (30-18-5 / 18-6-4 at home)
- Game info: 3:00 p.m. start time at Bell Centre. TV: MSG+ (HD) RADIO: WFAN 660 AM
- For tickets and ticket price data for this game, click here.
- Martin Brodeur will get the start in goal.
- Ilya Kovalchuk has 11 points (5g-6a) in his last 11 games.
- The Devils have 16 points in their last 10 games.
- This is the third of four meetings between the teams this season. The teams have split the previous two meetings, with the road team winning each game.
- Canadiens are in 2nd place in the Northeast division, 6th in the Eastern conference, and 8th in NHL overall.
2010-2011 Canadiens
| # | Pos | Player | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% |
| 14 | C | Tomas Plekanec | 52 | 18 | 25 | 43 | 14 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 155 | 11.6 |
| 20 | D | James Wisniewski | 47 | 5 | 29 | 34 | -18 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 105 | 4.8 |
| 13 | L | Michael Cammalleri | 44 | 13 | 18 | 31 | 6 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 126 | 10.3 |
| 46 | L | Andrei Kostitsyn | 52 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 12 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 133 | 9.8 |
| 21 | R | Brian Gionta | 53 | 19 | 9 | 28 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 204 | 9.3 |
| 11 | C | Scott Gomez | 51 | 7 | 20 | 27 | -9 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 97 | 7.2 |
| 76 | D | P.K. Subban | 48 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 1 | 67 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 127 | 3.9 |
| 44 | D | Roman Hamrlik | 50 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 4 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 5.1 |
| 57 | L | Benoit Pouliot | 50 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 3 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 79 | 12.7 |
| 15 | C | Jeff Halpern | 51 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 44 | 18.2 |
| 52 | L | Mathieu Darche | 47 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 12.3 |
| 6 | D | Jaroslav Spacek | 53 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 1.6 |
| 67 | L | Max Pacioretty | 23 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -1 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 8.5 |
| 32 | L | Travis Moen | 52 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 63 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 5.0 |
| 81 | C | Lars Eller | 49 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 61 | 4.9 |
| 26 | D | Josh Gorges | 36 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -3 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 5.0 |
| 45 | D | Alexandre Picard | 32 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 7.7 |
| 68 | D | Yannick Weber | 24 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0.0 |
| 75 | D | Hal Gill | 53 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -3 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0.0 |
| 58 | C | David Desharnais | 14 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 13.0 |
| 94 | C | Tom Pyatt | 42 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 2.1 |
| 79 | D | Andrei Markov | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 5.0 |
| 17 | C | Dustin Boyd | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 |
| D | Brett Festerling | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 53 | C | Ryan White | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 |
| 63 | C | Andreas Engqvist | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 |
| # | Goalie | GPI | GS | Min | GAA | W | L | OT | SO | SA | GA | Sv% | G | A | PIM |
| 31 | Carey Price | 47 | 46 | 2790 | 2.30 | 26 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 1379 | 107 | .922 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | Alex Auld | 8 | 7 | 414 | 2.17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 211 | 15 | .929 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
NEW JERSEY Devils vs. MONTREAL Canadiens
All-Time regular season record vs Habs:
(W – L – T – OT L – SO L)
55 – 35 – 8 – 1 – 0
Goals for: 289 Goals against: 253
All-Time post season record vs Habs:
4 – 1
Goals for: 22 Goals against: 11
Home games vs Habs: 35 – 13 – 4 – 0 – 0
Road games vs Habs: 24 – 23 – 4 – 1 – 0
Last season: 3 – 1
Dec 16, 2009 @ NJ – New Jersey 2 – 1 Montreal
Jan 9, 2010 @ Mtl – New Jersey 2 – 1 Montreal (OT)
Jan 22, 2010 @ NJ – Montreal 3 – 1 New Jersey
Mar 27, 2010 @ Mtl – New Jersey 4 – 2 Montreal
This season: 1 – 1
Thursday October 21st, 2010 – NJ 3 – 0 Montreal
Thursday December 2nd, 2010 – Montreal 5 – 1 NJ
Sunday February 6th, 2011 – NJ at Montreal
Saturday April 2nd, 2011 – Montreal at NJ
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