VANCOUVER B次元官网网址� The New Jersey Devils scored goals 22 seconds apart in the first period then used some key stops by goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood to defeat the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 Sunday.
Wayne Simmonds, on the power play, and Jesper Bratt scored for the Devils (5-7-4). Blackwood made 30 saves.
Brock Boeser, on a power play, scored for the Canucks (9-6-3), who are winless in their last four games (0-3-1).
The Canucks are also 0-8-3 in their last 11 games against New Jersey.
The Devils had lost their two previous games but are 5-3-2 in their last 10.
Canuck goaltender Jacob Markstrom stopped 25 shots.
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Early in the third period Blackwood stopped VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Tanner Pearson on a rush, then watched as the rebound went wide of the net. Later he used his stick to steer a Boeser blast wide. In the second period Blackwood made a pad save on an Adam Gaudette shot.
It took less then 30 seconds for the Devils to build a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Simmonds opened the scoring at 11:48. Taylor Hall sent a pass into the Canucks zone that Kyle Palmieri directed to Simmonds. He put it past Markstrom for the DevilsB次元官网网址� second road power-play goal of the season.
Bratt quickly made it 2-0 at 12:10 when he deflected a Damon Severson point shot into the net for his fourth goal of the season.
The Canucks had dodged a bullet a few minutes earlier on a Devils power play. Hall redirected a puck that got by Markstrom and slowly slid toward the open corner before defenceman Tyler Myers swept it off the goal line.
BoeserB次元官网网址檚 goal at 12:40 of the second period made the score 2-1. He took J.T. MillerB次元官网网址檚 pass, used his speed to skate into the Devils zone, then beat Blackwood with a low shot to the far corner. The goal came a few minutes after Markstrom had stopped Hall on a breakaway.
It was the second head-to-head brother clash between VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Quinn Hughes, the 20-year-old defenceman picked seventh overall in the 2018 draft, and Jack Hughes, the 18-year-old centre picked No. 1 by the Devils in this yearB次元官网网址檚 draft. In an Oct. 19 meeting Jack Hughes scored his first NHL goal in the Devils 1-0 win over the Canucks.
On Sunday, Quinn Hughes earned an assist on BoeserB次元官网网址檚 goal while Jack was kept off the scoresheet.
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NOTES: Both teams were playing their third game in four days and both had suffered back-to-back regulation time losses. B次元官网网址dam Gaudette replaced Loui Eriksson in the CanucksB次元官网网址� lineup. B次元官网网址� To support Hockey Fights Cancer the Canucks wore lavender warmup jerseys. B次元官网网址� Prior to SimmondsB次元官网网址� goal the DevilsB次元官网网址� power play was 1-for-25 on the road. B次元官网网址� In their back-to-back losses to Calgary on Thursday and Edmonton Friday the Devils were outscored 9-2. B次元官网网址� VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Brandon Sutter played in his 701st career game. He is the sixth member of the Sutter family to play 700 or more games.
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