Game

Hurricanes at Devils

Hurricanes 3, Devils 1 · first star Brandon Bussi (0 GA, .966 SV%).

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

Carolina Hurricanes 3 at New Jersey Devils 1

Hurricanes CAR

3 FINAL 1

Devils NJD

Sunday, January 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Prudential Center, Newark

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Hurricanes	1	1	1	3	29
Devils	1	0	0	1	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Hurricanes attack left, Devils attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: CAR 29, NJD 29.

CAR in red NJD in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Hurricanes 30 shots on goal (3 goals, 11 missed, 10 blocked) attacking left; Devils 29 shots on goal (1 goal, 13 missed, 18 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CAR SOG	CAR G	CAR ATT	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT
1st	16	1	28	8	1	14
2nd	9	1	15	6	0	12
3rd	5	1	8	15	0	34
Total	30	3	51	29	1	60

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CAR SOG	CAR G	NJD SOG	NJD G
Even strength	24	3	19	1
Power play	5	0	10	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Devils took 54.0% of the shot attempts, and 46.1% of the 78 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 Hurricanes hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Hurricanes at Devils
Period	NJD CF%	NJD FF%
1st	33.3	29.0
2nd	44.4	45.0
3rd	81.0	75.0
Game	54.0	50.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

00:51 Nikolaj Ehlers (11) Unassisted 1–0
07:34 Dawson Mercer (11) Arseny Gritsyuk (10), Jonas Siegenthaler (4) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

07:47 Taylor Hall (8) Unassisted · poke 2–1

3rd period

12:16 Logan Stankoven (7) Taylor Hall (12) · wrist 3–1

Three stars

Brandon Bussi CAR · G #32 · 0 GA, .966 SV%
Taylor Hall CAR · L #71 · 1 G, 1 A
Logan Stankoven CAR · C #22 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:38	NJD	Dawson Mercer	hooking	2	Shayne Gostisbehere
2nd	02:14	NJD	Dougie Hamilton	interference	2	Jackson Blake
2nd	12:56	CAR	Sean Walker	high sticking	2	Jack Hughes
2nd	16:03	CAR	Logan Stankoven	tripping	2	Cody Glass
2nd	18:13	CAR	Logan Stankoven	roughing	2	Nico Hischier
3rd	02:53	CAR	Jordan Staal	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
3rd	05:21	NJD	Ondrej Palat	hooking	2	Taylor Hall
3rd	18:27	CAR	Andrei Svechnikov	tripping	2	Luke Hughes

Boxscore

Carolina Hurricanes

Hurricanes skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Taylor Hall #71	L	1	1	2	+1	4	1	0	0	100.0	15:07
Logan Stankoven #22	C	1	0	1	+1	4	0	0	4	50.0	12:58
Nikolaj Ehlers #27	L	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	16:20
Jordan Staal #11	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	56.2	17:11
Noah Philp #15	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	43.8	10:48
Sebastian Aho #20	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	66.7	21:08
Eric Robinson #50	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	09:42
Jordan Martinook #48	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	100.0	19:56
Mark Jankowski #77	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	50.0	08:24
William Carrier #28	L	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0.0	11:26
Andrei Svechnikov #37	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	2	0.0	15:34
Jackson Blake #53	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:57
Alexander Nikishin #21	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	14:23
Jalen Chatfield #5	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	21:26
Joel Nystrom #64	D	0	0	0	+2	1	0	1	0	0.0	12:11
K'Andre Miller #19	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:22
Sean Walker #26	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	4	2	0.0	23:55
Shayne Gostisbehere #4	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	3	0	0.0	21:39

Hurricanes goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Brandon Bussi #32	W	29	28	1	.966	18/19	10/10	60:00

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dawson Mercer #91	C	1	0	1	-1	2	0	1	2	14.3	18:58
Arseny Gritsyuk #81	R	0	1	1	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	15:49
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	19:04
Cody Glass #12	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	37.5	11:13
Jack Hughes #86	C	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	0.0	24:55
Juho Lammikko #83	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	05:52
Luke Glendening #14	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	22.2	07:47
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	0	0	-1	6	3	0	0	62.1	25:16
Jesper Bratt #63	L	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	23:25
Ondrej Palat #18	L	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	2	0.0	09:10
Connor Brown #16	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:51
Stefan Noesen #11	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:27
Timo Meier #28	R	0	0	0	-1	3	2	2	0	40.0	20:36
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	13:58
Brett Pesce #22	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	2	0	0.0	17:46
Colton White #45	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	09:59
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	0	2	0.0	25:27
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	22:43

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Allen #34	L	29	27	3	.931	21/23	5/5	55:44

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.