A first clean sheet in New Jersey colors
Connor Hellebuyck needed five starts to post his first shutout since arriving in New Jersey. He made 23 saves overnight as the Devils beat the Maple Leafs 4-0 in Toronto, their fifth consecutive win.
The trade that brought him from Winnipeg on Oct. 23 was a blockbuster. Hellebuyck spent his first 11 NHL seasons with the Jets, won the Vezina Trophy three times and took the Hart Trophy as league MVP in 2024-25. Early returns in his new city look a lot like the old ones.
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Meier breaks it open
Timo Meier scored twice in the second period for his first two-goal game since April 2025. He opened the scoring 8:28 in, one-timing a feed from Declan Chisholm off an offensive-zone faceoff won by Nico Hischier. At 12:44 he tipped in a Jack Hughes shot after Hughes sent Oliver Ekman-Larsson the wrong way with a no-look pass from Jesper Bratt on the sequence.
Hischier made it 3-0 on a power-play rebound 9:49 into the third, and Connor Brown, a former Maple Leaf, added an empty-netter with under three minutes left. Hughes now has 11 points in five games.
Toronto’s slide deepens
Anthony Stolarz stopped 25 shots, but the Leafs have dropped five of their last six and lost the first three games of this six-game homestand. They were short on the blue line with Morgan Rielly out after leaving Saturday’s game with a lower-body injury, and Chris Tanev missed his 10th game of the season. Cole McWard made his Toronto debut. Colton Sissons left late in the second period with a lower-body injury.
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