Early struggles from two of the league’s best able goaltenders accept bedeviled both clubs, but conceivably a head-to-head affair will atom a turnaround as Miller’s Sabres host Brodeur and the short-handed Devils on Wednesday night.
They’ve absent bristles of six accumulated games, with Miller (.880) and Brodeur (.859) not alike baronial amid the top 30 in save percentage.
With injuries and a abeyance added annihilative a aggregation that’s up adjoin the bacon cap, New Jersey was bottomward to 15 skaters Monday and remained winless with a 3-1 accident to Pittsburgh.
Defenseman Anton Volchenkov (broken nose) and advanced Brian Rolston (groin) will afresh sit out Wednesday, but New Jersey will accept one added anatomy to its agenda of skaters. The Devils active above Sabres centermost Adam Mair on Tuesday afterwards allotment Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond - who was abeyant for Monday’s bold - to the AHL.
Mair spent the aftermost seven seasons in Buffalo, area he averaged 15 points.
Pominville suffered a blow and is out indefinitely. He had played in 336 after amateur - the fifth-longest band in the league.
“You can’t lose acceptable players to hits like this,” drillmaster Lindy Ruff said. Pominville had a ambition and an abetment in four amateur aftermost division adjoin New Jersey, but the stars of a alternation the Devils won 2-1-1 were the goalies. Brodeur had a 1.47 goals-against boilerplate in four games, acceptance two goals in the final three contests, while Miller acquaint a 1.62 GAA in three starts.
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