Cammalleri has 4 points in return, Devils edge Leafs in SO

OVERTIME1. Devils rookie D Yohann Auvitu (upper body) has missed three straight games and remains day-to-day. 2.

It was the loosest, least efficient defensive performance by Mike Babcock’s squad in a while, and it was probably no coincidence that it occurred with Freddie Andersen wearing a ball cap on the bench while Jhonas Enroth manned the crease. The league is going to get tighter and harder from here on in.

His resurgence, following a rough October, has been key to the Hurricanes season-long win streak. The Red Wings hosted the Winter Classic in 2014, when they lost a 3-2 shootout to the Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. Matthews opened the scoring at the 10:33 mark of the first period, he helped set up Nazem Kadri’s goal that made it 2-0 and he scored again before the end of the frame.

On a Hurricanes power play, Derek Ryan chipped a puck over top of Andersen and it went off Skinner’s skate to tie it 1-1 at 17:21.

Carolina gave away another power play to the Maple Leafs later in the second, this time on a hooking on Jay McClement. They’ll go on sale at Joe Louis Arena starting with the game against Montreal on Saturday.

“I think we’re obviously building some momentum here”, Ward said, “and just carrying it into the next game”. The play might have been goaltender interference, but the Leafs couldn’t challenge, having used their timeout after the Devils’ three-goal outburst. I watched (Carolina) last night, too, and thought they were outstanding. New Jersey kicked off its four-game road trip in fine fashion, topping Dallas in overtime on November 15, but fizzled on the West Coast as it was outscored 11-4 in losses at Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Jose. Ward got his pad on it to make the save at 12:39 of the second period. Maple Leafs defenseman Connor Carrick was called for holding with four minutes left in the period, and Canes winger Jeff Skinner found the back of the net for the power-play goal. “But every team in the league is taking drastic steps so our guys have to take big steps and you have to have the youth growth as well”, Babcock said. “When you’re productive you feel like you’re really doing your part, in anything in life”. Marner eventually was able to shake it off and stay in the game.

“I just know I would have liked to have the timeout at the end”, Babcock said. “I kind of stick with the same thing”.

“We’re turning a lot of pucks over (but) we’re competing”.

Auston Matthews, meanwhile, continued to generate chances for the Leafs without finding the back of the net. That’s the way it’s going right now.

“We know exactly what we’re supposed to do in all the different situations of the game”, Leafs forward James van Riemsdyk said. His change of equipment could have a fair bit to do with his improvement, but regardless of the reason, it is clear that he is playing with belief in himself and his ability to be a #1 goaltender in the National Hockey League.

Gardiner said, “They were obviously very exhausted, but they have a great penalty kill and we didn’t get pucks to the net, and that makes it easy on them”. But it plenty of skill and a bit of good fortune to win the special teams contest-and the game-and those two things were particularly present on Viktor Stalberg’s game winning goal.