Game

Wild at Devils

Devils 4, Wild 1 · first star Dawson Mercer (0 G, 2 A).

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

Minnesota Wild 1 at New Jersey Devils 4

Wild MIN

1 FINAL 4

Devils NJD

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Prudential Center, Newark

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	0	0	1	1	31
Devils	1	1	2	4	35

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Devils attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 31, NJD 35.

MIN in red NJD in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 31 shots on goal (1 goal, 13 missed, 24 blocked) attacking left; Devils 35 shots on goal (4 goals, 16 missed, 20 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT
1st	8	0	19	14	1	27
2nd	11	0	27	11	1	22
3rd	12	1	22	10	2	22
Total	31	1	68	35	4	71

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	NJD SOG	NJD G
Even strength	26	1	30	3
Power play	5	0	4	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Devils took 51.1% of the shot attempts, and 53.8% of the 119 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 Devils and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Devils
Period	NJD CF%	NJD FF%
1st	58.7	62.1
2nd	44.9	46.9
3rd	50.0	52.9
Game	51.1	53.7

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

Scoring summary

1st period

16:21 Paul Cotter (1) Connor Brown (1), Dawson Mercer (3) · wrist 0–1

2nd period

06:08 Brenden Dillon (2) Dawson Mercer (4), Simon Nemec (4) · snap 0–2

3rd period

04:53 Arseny Gritsyuk (1) PP Timo Meier (4) · snap 0–3
10:37 Matt Boldy (5) Joel Eriksson Ek (5), Zeev Buium (5) · wrist 1–3
18:43 Jesper Bratt (4) EN Jonas Siegenthaler (1) · wrist 1–4

Three stars

Dawson Mercer NJD · C #91 · 0 G, 2 A
Nico Daws NJD · G #50 · 0 GA, .968 SV%
Arseny Gritsyuk NJD · R #81 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:12	MIN	Marcus Foligno	interference	2	Dawson Mercer
2nd	11:21	NJD	Brenden Dillon	interference	2	Vinnie Hinostroza
2nd	16:14	NJD	Luke Hughes	interference	2	Jake Middleton
3rd	04:49	MIN	David Jiricek	slashing	2	Ondrej Palat
3rd	15:52	NJD	Luke Hughes	interference	2	Danila Yurov

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Matt Boldy #12	L	1	0	1	0	7	0	1	0	0.0	21:29
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	64.3	18:07
Zeev Buium #8	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:14
Marco Rossi #23	C	0	0	0	-1	3	1	2	0	52.9	15:58
Tyler Pitlick #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	10:23
Vinnie Hinostroza #18	C	0	0	0	-2	0	3	0	0	0.0	14:09
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	0	2	5	2	0	0.0	11:08
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	21:35
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	-2	0	7	0	2	0.0	11:55
Marcus Johansson #90	L	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	100.0	17:14
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	37.5	11:31
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	-2	4	0	3	0	52.9	16:57
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:44
Brock Faber #7	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0.0	20:39
David Jiricek #55	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	13:01
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	16:20
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	-2	0	4	1	0	0.0	19:17
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0.0	22:46

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	L	34	31	3	.912	27/29	3/4	59:29

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dawson Mercer #91	C	0	2	2	+2	1	0	2	0	53.3	16:46
Jesper Bratt #63	L	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:10
Paul Cotter #47	L	1	0	1	+2	2	2	0	0	0.0	14:14
Arseny Gritsyuk #81	R	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	15:55
Brenden Dillon #5	D	1	0	1	+1	2	1	2	2	0.0	18:42
Connor Brown #16	R	0	1	1	+2	1	0	2	0	0.0	15:08
Timo Meier #28	R	0	1	1	-1	2	1	0	0	50.0	18:22
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	19:44
Simon Nemec #17	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	4	0	0.0	16:30
Jack Hughes #86	C	0	0	0	+1	6	0	0	0	27.3	19:40
Luke Glendening #14	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	54.5	09:37
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	43.8	19:29
Brian Halonen #48	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	08:24
Ondrej Palat #18	L	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:57
Stefan Noesen #11	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	100.0	08:14
Brett Pesce #22	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	22:31
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	3	0	0.0	21:54
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	0	6	1	1	4	0.0	19:43

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Nico Daws #50	W	31	30	1	.968	25/26	5/5	60:00

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.