The victory was the fourth straight for the Devils, marking the first time they have won at least that many in a row since Jan. 7-16, 2023, when they won five in a row.<\/p>\n
Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist, Nico Hischier had two assists, and Jake Allen made 27 saves for the Devils (4-1-0). Connor Brown scored in his first game against his former team since signing a free agent contract with New Jersey on July 1.<\/p>\n
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored two goals, Connor McDavid had two assists, and Calvin Pickard made 18 saves for the Oilers (2-2-1), who have lost two straight.<\/p>\n
Hughes gave New Jersey a 1-0 lead at 8:07 of the second period. After getting a pass from Brett Pesce in stride near the Oilers blue line, he skated past three Edmonton players in the high slot before scoring on a wrist inside the far post from the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n
Bratt pushed it to 2-0 with a power-play goal at 16:02, scoring on a backhand from low in the right circle.<\/p>\n
Nugent-Hopkins pulled the Oilers within 2-1 just 2:14 later on a snap shot from below the left circle at 18:16.<\/p>\n
Brown then scored on a short-handed breakaway for a 3-1 lead at 10:37 of the third period, putting a wrist shot over the glove of Pickard.<\/p>\n
Hughes made it 4-1 at 12:33 when he skated into the slot and went backhand to forehand following an Edmonton turnover.<\/p>\n
Nugent-Hopkins cut it to 4-2 at 16:30 with his second of the game. He scored from in front off a McDavid pass with Pickard pulled for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n
Dawson Mercer scored an empty-net goal to give New Jersey a 5-2 lead at 18:53.<\/p>\n
Curtis Lazar, who signed a free agent contract with the Oilers on July 2 after three seasons with the Devils, scored from the top of the slot at 19:57 for the 5-3 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victory was the fourth straight for the Devils, marking the first time they have won at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-223762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}