The Detroit Red Wings and New Jersey Devils don’t meet again for another 3½ months.

Will the Red Wings have moved past Jonas Siegenthaler’s blindside hit on Lucas Raymond by then? Or will the tension and hostilities from the end of Monday’s game carry over into that March 8 matchup at the Prudential Center?

Siegenthaler leveled Raymond when he wasn’t looking and didn’t have the puck with 6:11 left in the Devils’ 4-3 victory. Raymond was shaken up momentarily but finished the game. No penalty was called for interference.

“I was joining the rush and turned around. I wanted to change and ran into him,” Siegenthaler told New Jersey reporters. “It wasn’t a very hard (hit), I would say. But he can act however he wants. I don’t think it was bad.”

The Red Wings pressured the Devils in the

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