Just a ho-hum game ripped from the annals of 1996.
Or so it seemed Sunday night at Prudential Center in Newark, where Jaromir Jagr and Martin Brodeur were two of the best players on the ice, joining forces to lead the Devils to a 5-0 win over the Predators.
The win gave the Devils (5-7-5) five points in their past three games, starting their homestand on the right foot. After playing 11 of their first 16 games on the road, they are in a stretch of three of four at home, and the one road game just being a bus ride in Manhattan to play the Rangers at the Garden on Tuesday.
"Guys are looking forward to getting home and playing some games in our rink, sleeping in our bed," coach Pete DeBoer said before the game. "But at the same time, you still have to win, doesn't matter if you're here or on the other side of the country."
The Predators (8-7-2) are in the midst of seven-game road trip — and looked it — and will keep it moving with a game against the Islanders at the Coliseum on Tuesday. And although they're playing without star goaltender Pekka Rinne — who just had surgery for a hip infection — Sunday night there were many eyes were focused on Nashville's phenomenal 19-year-old defenseman Seth Jones.
And no matter Jones' brilliance, it was the guys who were drafted before Jones was even born that stole the stage. Both Jagr and Brodeur are 41 years old, products of the 1990 draft, when Jagr went No. 5 overall to the Penguins and Brodeur 15 picks later to the Devils.
Jagr's career has wound around the league while Brodeur has been the bedrock of this franchise for two decades. Now in the last year of his contract, Brodeur's replacement, Cory Schneider, is just waiting in the wings. But after a shaky start to the season, Brodeur has put together a string of games that might reestablish him as the clear No. 1.
This was his second straight shutout, No. 123 on the top of the history books, with his most recent start a 3-0 win in Philadelphia against the Flyers on Thursday. When Schneider went down to a lower-body injury in late October, Brodeur got three straight starts, which was then followed by that game in Philly and then Sunday night. In that five-game span, he has given up five goals on 103 shots.
For Jagr, the good news started early. Just 1:30 into the game, he spun around the offensive zone and fired a wrist shot past Carter Hutton to give the Devils a 1-0 lead. Skating on a top line with Dainius Zubrus and Travis Zajac, Jagr makes up for his lack of speed with his puck control and vision.
It was his fifth goal of the season, tying for the team lead with Adam Henrique. It was also career point No. 1,700, making Jagr just the eighth player in NHL history to reach that mark, and as a native of Czech Republic, the first European-born player to reach that milestone.
Jagr's goal was followed by a second-period tally from Cam Janssen — the pugilist's second in three games since being called up from AHL Albany, if you can believe it — and another from Marek Zidlicky, a rifle slap shot on the power play which made it 3-0.
Jagr then put a bow on things by making a great pass to Zajac on a late 2-on-1, making it 4-0.
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