Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the New Jersey Devils (22-20-11, 55 points) and St. Louis Blues (35-11-5, 75 points) faceoff for the second and final time this season live from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The game can be live streamed here. New Jersey fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action on 101.9 WFAN while St. Louis fans can do the same on KMOX 1120.
New Jersey has won two of its last three games, but lost its last time out in the NHL Stadium Series at Yankee Stadium while St. Louis is on a two-game winning streak and will be looking for revenge after suffering their last loss to the Devils in embarrassing fashion in a 7-1 shelling last Tuesday night in New Jersey.
The Blues managed to win their two games since that disheartening setback against the Devils last week to return to St. Louis off of a 3-1-0 road trip.
"We've been working hard on this trip," Blues forward T.J. Oshie said per NHL.com. "We had a tough game in New Jersey, but other than that, we've been playing pretty good team hockey."
Oshie is second on the team with 42 points off of 12 goals and 30 assists while Alex Steen leads the team with 44 points off of 26 markers and 18 helpers and David Backes has found the twine 17 times while adding 21 assists for 38 points.
The Devils were a part of a huge spectacle on Sunday as the NHL Stadium Series took over Yankee Stadium, however after marching out to a 3-1 lead in the first period, the team allowed six unanswered goals and lost to their division rival New York Rangers 7-3.
"We did come out ready to play," coach Pete DeBoer told NHL.com. "I thought we had a really good first period, and I think we fell into a little bit of a trap because it was five goals scored in the first [when the Devils took a 3-2 lead]. We started to open it up a little bit in the second looking for another three and that's not our game; they made us pay."
The Devils have been paced by Jaromir Jagr, who has 44 points off of 16 goals and 28 assists while Patrik Elias has nine tallies and 20 helpers for 29 points and Marek Zidlicky has found the back of the net eight times and added 20 assists for 28 points.
In between the pipes, New Jersey is likely to go with Martin Brodeur, who was pulled Sunday after allowing six goals on 21 shots. Brodeur is 13-11-4 with a 2.52 goals-against average and a .899 save percentage. St. Louis will likely turn to Jaroslav Halak to man the crease and he is 22-7-3 with a 2.30 GAA and a .912 save percentage.
The Devils look to bounce back from a tough loss while the Blues try to avenge a loss to the Devils last week while notching their third straight win when the puck drops tonight at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
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