The Devils will open the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs with a Round 1 match-up against the Carolina Hurricanes, the team that eliminated New Jersey in the Second Round of the 2023 postseason.

The Carolina Hurricanes will face the New Jersey Devils in a matchup of the ... a second-round series in 2023 that they won in five games. The Devils' only win came in the first round of the ...

The Devils and Hurricanes are Metropolitan Division rivals who played each other four times in the regular season, and they met in the 2023 playoffs ... Throwing the puck away isn’t good ...

Carolina Hurricanes ... New Jersey en route to the 2006 Stanley Cup, winning a memorable seven-game series in 2009, and more recently turning back the Devils in five games in 2023.