Game

Devils at Blue Jackets

Devils 3, Blue Jackets 2 · first star Dawson Mercer (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 3 at Columbus Blue Jackets 2

Devils NJD

3 FINAL 2

Blue Jackets CBJ

Monday, October 13, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Nationwide Arena, Columbus

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Devils	1	1	1	3	28
Blue Jackets	0	1	1	2	33

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Devils attack left, Blue Jackets attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: NJD 28, CBJ 33.

NJD in red CBJ in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Devils 28 shots on goal (3 goals, 15 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Blue Jackets 33 shots on goal (2 goals, 16 missed, 21 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT
1st	8	1	16	16	0	27
2nd	11	1	23	8	1	20
3rd	9	1	17	9	1	23
Total	28	3	56	33	2	70

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NJD SOG	NJD G	CBJ SOG	CBJ G
Even strength	24	1	24	2
Power play	4	2	8	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 55.6% of the shot attempts, and 52.6% of the 97 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 Blue Jackets 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 Blue Jackets
Period	CBJ CF%	CBJ FF%
1st	62.8	62.2
2nd	46.5	37.5
3rd	57.5	54.8
Game	55.6	53.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

15:47 Timo Meier (2) PP Jack Hughes (2), Jesper Bratt (2) · wrist 1–0

2nd period

08:49 Kirill Marchenko (4) Unassisted · wrist 1–1
11:09 Dawson Mercer (1) PP Arseny Gritsyuk (3), Ondrej Palat (1) · slap 2–1

3rd period

19:03 Dawson Mercer (2) EN Nico Hischier (2), Brenden Dillon (1) · wrist 3–1
19:39 Dmitri Voronkov (2) Ivan Provorov (2) · poke 3–2

Three stars

Dawson Mercer NJD · C #91 · 2 G, 0 A
Kirill Marchenko CBJ · R #86 · 1 G, 0 A
Timo Meier NJD · R #28 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	06:08	NJD	Dougie Hamilton	high sticking double minor	4	Miles Wood
1st	12:18	NJD	Brett Pesce	hooking	2	Mathieu Olivier
1st	13:47	CBJ	Adam Fantilli	hooking	2	Dawson Mercer
2nd	09:13	CBJ	Cole Sillinger	hooking	2	Luke Hughes
2nd	14:49	NJD	Simon Nemec	hooking	2	Boone Jenner
3rd	04:42	NJD	Arseny Gritsyuk	holding	2	Adam Fantilli

Boxscore

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dawson Mercer #91	C	2	0	2	+1	4	1	1	0	50.0	16:35
Timo Meier #28	R	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	100.0	16:02
Jack Hughes #86	C	0	1	1	-2	0	0	2	0	18.2	18:40
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	2	0	55.0	19:27
Jesper Bratt #63	L	0	1	1	-2	3	1	0	0	0.0	16:50
Ondrej Palat #18	L	0	1	1	-2	1	1	1	0	0.0	13:08
Arseny Gritsyuk #81	R	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	14:25
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	1	1	0	0	4	2	0	0.0	18:28
Cody Glass #12	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	21.4	13:47
Luke Glendening #14	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50.0	10:24
Brian Halonen #48	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	06:54
Paul Cotter #47	L	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0.0	08:37
Connor Brown #16	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	100.0	16:55
Brett Pesce #22	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	2	2	0.0	20:19
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	2	4	0.0	21:00
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	21:42
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	22:42
Simon Nemec #17	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0.0	14:05

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Allen #34	—	24	23	1	.958	17/18	5/5	40:00
Jacob Markstrom #25	W	9	8	1	.889	5/6	3/3	20:00

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	1	0	1	+2	5	2	0	0	0.0	17:09
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	1	0	1	0	5	1	1	0	0.0	24:24
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	21:05
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	0	0	+1	3	0	1	2	66.7	17:10
Boone Jenner #38	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	1	0	69.2	19:08
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	0	50.0	17:49
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	2	0.0	13:33
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	66.7	11:00
Kent Johnson #91	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	19:23
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	53.8	22:45
Miles Wood #11	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	01:17
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	07:51
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	0	0	+1	0	6	1	0	0.0	14:48
Damon Severson #78	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	2	0	0.0	20:42
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	3	0	0.0	19:56
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:16
Jake Christiansen #2	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	07:44
Zach Werenski #8	D	0	0	0	0	7	1	0	0	0.0	29:14

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	L	27	25	2	.926	23/23	2/4	57:52

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.