NEWARK—Not only did the New Jersey Devils fall below the passing mark at the NHL Trade Deadline, they failed their assignment on Friday night, the Winnipeg Jets.

BOTTOM LINE: The New Jersey Devils take on the Winnipeg Jets in a non-conference matchup. New Jersey is 15-10-4 at home and 33-24-6 overall. The Devils are ninth in NHL play serving 9.0 penalty minutes per game.

New Jersey hosts the Winnipeg Jets for a Friday night showdown. You can watch on MSGSN or listen on the Devils Hockey Network. Read below for your game preview and pre-game story below. Tonight's game is presented by Donnelly Energy.

The Winnipeg Jets will look to make it back-to-back wins as they travel to Newark, N.J., to face the New Jersey Devils on Friday night.

The Winnipeg Jets will travel to the Garden State to face the New Jersey Devils. This could be a Stanley Cup preview as we share our NHL odds series and make a Jets-Devils prediction and pick. The Devils lead the head-to-head series 35-33.

Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor, and Gabriel Vilardi combined for eight points in the victory over the Flyers, a win that snapped a three-game winless skid foor the Jets. The other good news for the Jets is that the power play has now scored four times in five opportunities on the road trip.

The Winnipeg Jets had a better trade-deadline day than their general manager. Hours after Kevin Cheveldayoff pulled the trigger on pair of low-impact trades, his team pulled the trigger six times in a 6-1 rout of the Devils in New Jersey on Friday.