Jack Hughes, Jesper Boqvist and Tomas Tatar scored and the Devils won their ninth consecutive road game, 3-1 over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night. NJDevils
The Devils' defense slowed a Sabres attack that had 13 goals in consecutive victories following an eight-game skid.
The Devils got three goals in the second and have outscored opponents 30-20 in the period through 21 games.About four minutes later, Yegor Sharangovich extended his point streak to five games when he took the puck from Buffalo's Mattias Samuelsson along the end boards and fed Boqvist in the slot. After Olofsson scored on a rush to make it 2-1, Tatar answered for the Devils with a shot from the left circle that slipped between Anderson's pads with 2:05 remaining in the second.Captain Kyle Okposo returned to the Sabres' lineup after missing six games with a lower-body injury."Just some wear and tear I've been dealing with and had to give it some time to calm down," the 34-year-old forward said.
Buffalo defenseman Jacob Bryson is out for at least a week with a lower-body injury sustained in Wednesday's 6-2 win against St. Louis. Casey Fitzgerald, a healthy scratch in five of the past eight games, replaced Bryson in the lineup. He is the son of New Jersey general manager Tom Fitzgerald.Devils coach Lindy Ruff is one victory from becoming the fifth NHL coach with 800 in his career. Ruff, a former Sabres player, won 571 games coaching Buffalo from 1997-2011.
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