Nice game for the Devils. Still struggling a bit at consistent 5 on 5 offense but the defense has been pretty good.
This was the opposite of last year philosophically, today the Devils dumped almost all the pucks to try and slow Utah down and make them traverse the whole ice, I think it worked fairly well.
Nemec and Casey had their best day communicating, multiple switches and coverage questions and they were pretty smooth all the time.
Meier and Hughes still aren’t meshing. If they both don’t have the puck then they often both game to the same open ice looking for the puck and when either of them has the puck they have no clue what the other is going to do. Neither is doing anything wrong, they’re just both too similar and then dissimilar at reading each other right now.