Detroit Red Wings at New Jersey Devils: game preview
DetroitRed Wings2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 41-31-10 · 92 pts · 16that
New JerseyDevils2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 42-37-3 · 87 pts · 21stFive points apart last season
Detroit finished last season 16th in the league on 92 points. New Jersey finished 21st on 87.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 99
Across 98 completed games, Detroit lead the head-to-head 50-43-5.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 24 Nov 2025, Detroit were 12th in the league and New Jersey 5th. By 11 Apr 2026 it was 14th and 22nd.
New Jersey out-attempted Detroit 323 to 305
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Detroit Red Wings
New Jersey Devils
New Jersey have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Detroit, 3 for New Jersey. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Detroit, 10 for New Jersey.
2025-26: 82 games for Detroit, 82 for New Jersey.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Detroit
Small sampleNew Jersey
Small sampleMoritz Seider has 7 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Moritz Seider vs New Jersey · game by game
See all: Moritz Seider vs New Jersey · game by game →John Gibson has been the difference
John Gibson faced 53 shots across 2 appearances against New Jersey and conceded 4, a .925 save percentage against a season figure of .903. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 5 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 7 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
John Gibson
See all: John Gibson →DET · 1-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 6 Dec
New Jersey crease
NJD · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 6 Dec
Two goalies used against Detroit
Scoring rates point to about 5.9 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Detroit2.332.672.943.15
New Jersey2.004.332.803.10Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
12 on the injury lists
Detroit · injuries
New Jersey · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed F Dylan Larkin on the non-roster injured reserve.
Assigned Fs Ondrej Becher, Cameron Butler, Sheldon Dries, Noah Dower Nilsson, Dylan James, Jesse Kiiskinen, John Leonard, Sutter Muzzatti, Theo Rochette, Dominik Shine and Wilmer Skoog, Ds Ronnie Attard, Jacob Bryson, Shai Buium and William Lagesson and Gs Trey Augustine and Michal Postava to Grand Rapids (AHL).
Acquired F Sutter Muzzatti from Nashville Predators for future considerations.
Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers.
Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers. Placed C/RW Marc McLaughlin, LD Vladislav Kolyachonok, G David Rittich, LW Riley Tufte, LD Topias Vilen, and C/RW Colin White on waivers.
Assigned Ds Mikael Diotte, Ethan Edwards, Jeremy Hanzel, Etienne Morin and Anton Silaev, Fs Josh Filmon, Lenni Hameenaho, Shane Lachance, Matyas Melovsky, Xavier Parent, Cam Squires and Ben Steeves and G Jakub Malek to Utica (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Utica Ds DJ King, Charles Leddy and Eamon Powell, Fs Tristan Ashbrook, Zachary Gallant, Gabe Klassen, Jack Malone, Justin Pearson, Ryan Schmelzer, Cristophe Tellier and Jermey Wilmer and Gs Jeremy Brodeur and Seth Eisele.
Detroit · 2026 draft
See all: Detroit · 2026 draft →New Jersey · 2026 draft
See all: New Jersey · 2026 draft →Wednesday 9 December · the full slate
See all: Wednesday 9 December · the full slate →
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