"The West Coast road trip has not been kind to the New Jersey Devils in recent memory. Since leaving Prudential Center with a 4-3 overtime win on Oct. 26, the Devils are 1-3 while giving up 18 goals so they have been anything but California Dreamin'. Okay, that pun might have worked better if one of those games wasn't an 8-4 disaster against the Colorado Avalanche. That game was a mile high disappointment for New Jersey."
"New Jersey's polarizing special teams make it hard to make sense of this skid. Two of those five early goals scored by Colorado were power play goals, and they would add two more, for a total of four scored in a single game. On the other side, they didn't surrender a power play goal to the Sharks. In fact, New Jersey's Dawson Mercer would score two power play goals."
After a 4-3 overtime win on Oct. 26, the Devils went 1-3 on the West Coast, allowing 18 goals. Four losses featured early multi-goal deficits, including an 8-4 loss to Colorado where New Jersey trailed 5-0 by mid-second period and a 3-0 early hole against Anaheim. Special teams were inconsistent: Colorado scored four power-play goals in one game while the Sharks scored none. Dawson Mercer scored two power-play goals in one game and later scored two shorthanded goals, becoming the first player to record multiple power-play and multiple shorthanded goals in the same game. Goaltender Jakob Markstrom had both a poor outing and an excellent performance during the trip.
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