The New Jersey Devils surrendered another multi-goal lead in their matchup with the Arizona Coyotes on Friday night and it hurt for a variety of reasons. The most important reason is that they lost the game and instead of gaining some ground in the Eastern Conference races, they are still hovering near the bottom of the conference. There are so many games to go and nothing is even close to certain yet but they need to start learning how to close out games.
Another reason why this loss stung was that it was a wasted performance of 18-year-old Jack Hughes.