Game

Devils at Lightning

Devils 5, Lightning 3 · first star Connor Brown (2 G, 0 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

New Jersey Devils 5 at Tampa Bay Lightning 3

Devils NJD

5 FINAL 3

Lightning TBL

Saturday, October 11, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Devils	3	0	2	5	31
Lightning	0	2	1	3	17

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Devils attack left, Lightning attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: NJD 31, TBL 17.

NJD in red TBL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Devils 31 shots on goal (5 goals, 14 missed, 19 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 17 shots on goal (3 goals, 10 missed, 27 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	17	3	30	2	0	10
2nd	7	0	19	7	2	15
3rd	7	2	15	8	1	29
Total	31	5	64	17	3	54

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NJD SOG	NJD G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	24	4	13	3
Power play	6	0	3	0
Short-handed	1	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Devils took 54.2% of the shot attempts, and 59.3% of the 81 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Lightning and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Devils hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Devils at Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	25.0	19.2
2nd	44.1	43.5
3rd	65.9	52.2
Game	45.8	37.5

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

08:30 Timo Meier (1) Nico Hischier (1), Dawson Mercer (1) · poke 1–0
10:17 Connor Brown (1) Arseny Gritsyuk (1), Luke Hughes (3) · tip-in 2–0
13:48 Nico Hischier (1) Timo Meier (1), Luke Hughes (4) · wrist 3–0

2nd period

07:31 Yanni Gourde (1) Brayden Point (3), Max Crozier (1) · wrist 3–1
17:23 Ryan McDonagh (1) Brandon Hagel (1), Max Crozier (2) · slap 3–2

3rd period

04:48 Jesper Bratt (2) SH Unassisted · wrist 4–2
06:29 Connor Brown (2) Arseny Gritsyuk (2), Simon Nemec (1) · wrist 5–2
16:17 Darren Raddysh (1) Oliver Bjorkstrand (1), Gage Goncalves (1) · wrist 5–3

Three stars

Connor Brown NJD · R #16 · 2 G, 0 A
Nico Hischier NJD · C #13 · 1 G, 1 A
Jesper Bratt NJD · L #63 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:41	TBL	Jack Finley	roughing	2	Dawson Mercer
1st	10:43	TBL	Max Crozier	elbowing	2	Timo Meier
1st	18:33	TBL	Erik Cernak	boarding	2	Ondrej Palat
2nd	08:37	NJD	Luke Hughes	delaying game	2	—
2nd	14:23	TBL	Brandon Hagel	tripping	2	Ondrej Palat
3rd	03:21	NJD	Jonas Siegenthaler	tripping	2	Pontus Holmberg
3rd	18:11	NJD	Jacob Markstrom	delaying game puck over glass	2	—

Boxscore

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Connor Brown #16	R	2	0	2	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	14:45
Nico Hischier #13	C	1	1	2	+2	3	0	2	0	58.3	19:59
Timo Meier #28	R	1	1	2	+1	3	0	2	0	0.0	17:14
Arseny Gritsyuk #81	R	0	2	2	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	13:14
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	2	2	+2	2	1	1	2	0.0	20:32
Jesper Bratt #63	L	1	0	1	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	18:06
Dawson Mercer #91	C	0	1	1	+3	0	1	4	0	100.0	19:08
Simon Nemec #17	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	15:01
Cody Glass #12	C	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	0	57.1	11:57
Jack Hughes #86	C	0	0	0	0	7	1	0	0	60.0	19:19
Luke Glendening #14	C	0	0	0	-2	0	5	1	0	61.5	12:52
Ondrej Palat #18	L	0	0	0	-1	2	3	3	0	0.0	14:29
Paul Cotter #47	L	0	0	0	-2	0	3	0	0	0.0	12:59
Zack MacEwen #15	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	07:12
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0.0	20:14
Brett Pesce #22	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0.0	21:30
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	18:51
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	17:01

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jacob Markstrom #25	W	17	14	3	.824	10/13	3/3	59:48

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Max Crozier #24	D	0	2	2	+1	0	1	2	2	0.0	15:57
Yanni Gourde #37	C	1	0	1	-1	2	3	0	0	42.9	15:33
Darren Raddysh #43	D	1	0	1	-2	2	0	2	0	0.0	17:38
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	20:22
Brayden Point #21	C	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	23.5	20:07
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:21
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	18:10
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	1	1	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:16
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	56.5	21:45
Conor Geekie #14	C	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	33.3	08:58
Jack Finley #62	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	40.0	09:05
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	66.7	24:31
Mitchell Chaffee #41	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	08:28
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	0	0	-3	1	1	1	0	0.0	20:32
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	09:54
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:10
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	3	2	0.0	17:13
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	2	0	0.0	27:17

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	L	31	26	5	.839	20/24	6/6	56:43

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.