The Devils practiced Friday ahead of New Jersey's final game before the winter break. New Jersey fell 6-3 to the Oilers on Thursday night and have gone 0-2-1 in the first three games of a five-game homestand.
“We talk a lot in the room a lot about how we should play the game, how we should start a game, but we don’t do that,” Ondrej Palat shared following Friday’s practice. “Yesterday we came out flat, Edmonton was winning battles, they were skating better. Then again, we go into the third period winning and we don’t need to score more goals. Then we’re giving up chances, we’re leaving McDavid all alone net front. We just need to, like we did today, went through the video, learned from it, and come out way stronger tomorrow.”
“We went over some stuff this morning,” Brendan Smith discussed about Thursday night’s loss. “They lost the last three and they were going to come and a be a little bit desperate. I don’t think we were completely prepared for that. They played a good game, you have to tip your hat. They were above us, they competed a little bit harder than us.”
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