Jack Hughes shot fell out of Ottawa goalie James Reimer’s glove as he was making the save, and Hischier poked the puck through Reimer’s five-hole for the win on the man-advantage.<\/p>\n
With the overtime loss, Ottawa is one point behind the Boston Bruins, each with one game left to play, in the Eastern Conference wild-card race.<\/p>\n
Hischier scored twice and had an assist, Dawson Mercer had a goal and an assist, and Hughes had two assists for the Devils (42-36-3), who won their second straight game after losing two in a row. Nico Daws made 27 saves in his second start of the season and first since a 4-1 win against the Minnesota Wild on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n
Michael Amadio, Shane Pinto and Fabian Zetterlund each scored, and James Reimer made 26 saves for the Senators (43-27-11), who clinched a Stanley Cup Playoff berth on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Ottawa played without forwards Brady Tkachuk (ill) and Tim Stutzle, as well as defensemen Jake Sanderson and Thomas Chabot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hischier gave the Devils a 1-0 lead when he cleaned up a rebound from the slot at 5:12 of the first period.<\/p>\n
Mercer looked to push the Devils’ lead to 2-0 at 12:02, but the play was overturned for offside.<\/p>\n
Connor Brown scored a short-handed goal at 14:51 on a breakaway thanks to a stretch pass from Hughes. Brown whiffed on his shot from the slot, but it still got through the pads of Reimer and past the goal line.<\/p>\n
The Senators answered with three straight goals in the second period to take a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Amadio scored first for Ottawa, deflecting in Artem Zub’s shot from the right point at 7:42 of the second period.<\/p>\n
Pinto’s one-timer from the left dot tied it 2-2 on the power-play at 10:25.<\/p>\n
Zetterlund then gave the Senators a 3-2 lead at 14:14 when Hughes misplayed the puck in front of his own net, and Zetterlund took advantage with a wrist shot from in front.<\/p>\n
Mercer pulled the Devils into a 3-3 tie on a short-handed breakaway with a backhand shot through Reimer’s five-hole at 12:28 of the third period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes shot fell out of Ottawa goalie James Reimer’s glove as he was making the save, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-600384","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\/600384","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=600384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}