Nemec tied the game at 19:45 of the second period, taking a drop pass from Hischier in the offensive zone, moving through the slot and scoring on a backhand. The Devils outshot the Blackhawks 14-3 in the period.<\/p>\n
Landon Slaggert<\/a>‘s first goal of the season gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead at 3:05 of the third period. Slaggert tipped in Crevier\u2019s shot from the right point. The Blackhawks recalled Slaggert from Rockford of the American Hockey League earlier in the day to take the spot of forward Andre Burakovsky<\/a>, who missed the game with an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n Dawson Mercer<\/a> tied the game again at 10:13 on a one-timer from the left circle, scoring short side while falling to one knee after taking a cross-ice pass from Hughes.<\/p>\n Sam Lafferty<\/a>‘s first goal of the season put Chicago back in front 3-2 at 13:34. Lafferty moved into the offensive zone, dodged Luke Hughes<\/a> while going across the slot and scored on a backhand.<\/p>\n “It started with a great wall play by Foligno,\u201d said Lafferty, who was a healthy scratch in 12 games this season. \u201cThat allowed me to blow out of the zone, and from there, instincts took over. Luckily enough, it went in.”<\/p>\n The Devils played most of the game without forwards Zack MacEwen<\/a> and Cody Glass<\/a>. MacEwen took a hit from Chicago’s Connor Murphy<\/a> at 12:33 of the first period and did not return. MacEwen had missed 13 games with an upper-body injury before returning to play on Monday against the Islanders. After going into the boards in the final minute of the first period, Glass came out for the second period but left for the locker room after one shift.<\/p>\n The Devils did not have an update on either player.<\/p>\n \u201cI loved how our guys stayed with it,\u201d Devils coach Sheldon Keefe said. \u201cEven though we were down most of the game, I loved a lot about our game today. In lots of ways, I thought it was the best game we\u2019ve played all season in terms of controlling the play. Up until a couple in the third period, I don\u2019t know that we gave up a real clean scoring chance against and obviously generated plenty of our own. To get the two points feels good, and the guys get rewarded for that. I thought we played real, real well today. It was a real nice recipe that\u2019s going to give us a chance to win most nights.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: Nemec became the eighth defenseman in NHL history to cap a regular-season hat trick with an overtime goal and first since Jakob Chychrun<\/a> on April 4, 2021. Nemec, 21, is the youngest to do so, besting Chychrun (23 years, four days) \u2026 Chicago\u2019s Ryan Donato<\/a> played in his 500th NHL game. … The Devils have won seven straight against the Blackhawks dating back to the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nemec tied the game at 19:45 of the second period, taking a drop pass from Hischier in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-280343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}