The Devils' franchise-record tying 13-game winning streak came to an ugly end Wednesday.
"We needed to get a win here today, no matter who we're playing," Keefe said."I mean, that's a tremendous hockey team over there. And they deserve everything that they've gotten here to date. ... This is a character win for our team."
Dougie Hamilton scored on a tip-in with 5:08 to play, bringing the Prudential Center crowd into the game. Murray made a half-dozen saves in the final minutes, stopping Jesper Bratt, Jack Hughes and Nico Hischier twice on good chances.The Devils' winning streak tied for the fifth-longest in NHL history and was four games shy of the record set by Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1993. New Jersey's other 13-game run was in 2001.
"It's definitely frustrating, 100%, but nothing we can do," Hischier said."Refs make the call and there's nothing that's going to change it, so we got to stick with it ... ."Mitch Marner set up Tavares' 12th goal of the season, outworking Hamilton and Jonas Siegenthaler along the boards and behind the net and finding the Leafs captain in front, where he beat Vitek Vanecek at 11:41.
Less than three minutes later, Leafs defenseman Rasmus Sandin closed from the point to keep the puck in the Devils zone. It slid to Holmberg, who scored his first NHL goal at 14:03.With Morgan Reilly out with a knee injury, Toronto acquired defenseman Conor Timmins from the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday for forward Curtis Douglas. Timmons had no points in two games with the Coyotes this season. Douglas, 22, was a fourth-round pick by the Dallas Stars in the 2018 NHL Draft.
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