Game

Blackhawks at Devils

Devils 5, Blackhawks 3 · first star Jack Hughes (2 G, 2 A).

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

Chicago Blackhawks 3 at New Jersey Devils 5

Blackhawks CHI

3 FINAL 5

Devils NJD

Sunday, March 29, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Prudential Center, Newark · TV NHLN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blackhawks	2	0	1	3	31
Devils	1	1	3	5	40

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blackhawks attack left, Devils 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: CHI 31, NJD 40.

CHI in red NJD in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Blackhawks 31 shots on goal (3 goals, 19 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Devils 40 shots on goal (5 goals, 27 missed, 22 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CHI SOG	CHI G	CHI ATT	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT
1st	13	2	20	14	1	26
2nd	5	0	19	16	1	35
3rd	13	1	26	10	3	28
Total	31	3	65	40	5	89

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CHI SOG	CHI G	NJD SOG	NJD G
Even strength	26	2	36	4
Power play	5	1	3	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Devils took 57.8% of the shot attempts, and 63.5% of the 126 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 Blackhawks hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blackhawks at Devils
Period	NJD CF%	NJD FF%
1st	56.5	55.3
2nd	64.8	62.5
3rd	51.9	53.9
Game	57.8	57.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:19 Ilya Mikheyev (15) Anton Frondell (3), Louis Crevier (14) · wrist 1–0
11:15 Connor Brown (15) PP Luke Hughes (28), Jack Hughes (40) · deflected 1–1
13:11 Frank Nazar (13) Ryan Donato (14), Andre Burakovsky (21) · wrist 2–1

2nd period

15:48 Simon Nemec (11) Dawson Mercer (21), Nico Hischier (31) · snap 2–2

3rd period

10:51 Frank Nazar (14) PP Connor Bedard (38), Anton Frondell (4) · slap 3–2
14:32 Dougie Hamilton (11) Jack Hughes (41), Timo Meier (16) · snap 3–3
14:51 Jack Hughes (21) Jesper Bratt (42), Jonas Siegenthaler (12) · wrist 3–4
19:29 Jack Hughes (22) EN Nico Hischier (32), Johnathan Kovacevic (6) · wrist 3–5

Three stars

Jack Hughes NJD · C #86 · 2 G, 2 A
Frank Nazar CHI · C #91 · 2 G, 0 A
Dougie Hamilton NJD · D #7 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	10:55	CHI	Wyatt Kaiser	tripping	2	Paul Cotter
2nd	01:35	CHI	Kevin Korchinski	interference	2	Cody Glass
2nd	19:57	NJD	Lenni Hameenaho	hooking	2	Connor Bedard
3rd	08:54	NJD	Nick Bjugstad	high sticking	2	Sacha Boisvert
3rd	09:58	NJD	Cody Glass	tripping	2	Connor Bedard

Boxscore

Chicago Blackhawks

Blackhawks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Frank Nazar #91	C	2	0	2	-2	7	2	1	0	69.2	19:00
Anton Frondell #15	C	0	2	2	-1	3	1	0	0	22.2	16:52
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	16:14
Connor Bedard #98	C	0	1	1	-1	6	1	1	0	41.2	20:40
Ryan Donato #8	C	0	1	1	-2	1	0	0	0	40.0	14:52
Andre Burakovsky #28	L	0	1	1	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	14:16
Louis Crevier #46	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	4	0	0.0	18:58
Ryan Greene #20	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:02
Sacha Boisvert #12	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	75.0	09:36
Teuvo Teravainen #86	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	16:11
Landon Slaggert #84	L	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0.0	12:41
Nick Lardis #76	L	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	15:37
Tyler Bertuzzi #59	L	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	17:35
Alex Vlasic #72	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0.0	20:13
Ethan Del Mastro #38	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	14:26
Kevin Korchinski #14	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	12:09
Sam Rinzel #6	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	3	0	0.0	20:49
Wyatt Kaiser #44	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	0.0	22:27

Blackhawks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Spencer Knight #30	L	39	35	4	.897	32/35	2/3	59:02

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jack Hughes #86	C	2	2	4	+2	8	0	0	0	45.5	22:12
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	2	2	+2	2	1	1	0	64.3	21:25
Connor Brown #16	R	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	19:27
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	1	0	1	+1	4	4	3	0	0.0	18:55
Simon Nemec #17	D	1	0	1	-1	3	0	2	0	0.0	16:55
Dawson Mercer #91	C	0	1	1	+2	2	0	1	0	100.0	21:10
Jesper Bratt #63	L	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:54
Timo Meier #28	R	0	1	1	+1	9	1	0	0	0.0	19:19
Johnathan Kovacevic #8	D	0	1	1	+2	0	2	0	0	0.0	20:10
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	1	1	+1	2	3	2	0	0.0	20:37
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	22:07
Cody Glass #12	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	69.2	11:31
Nick Bjugstad #72	C	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	2	66.7	07:04
Evgenii Dadonov #33	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:47
Paul Cotter #47	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	07:36
Lenni Hameenaho #29	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	11:02
Maxim Tsyplakov #42	R	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	07:21
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0.0	19:31

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Allen #34	W	31	28	3	.903	24/26	4/5	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.