Mackenzie Blackwood made 34 saves filling and the Devils’ power play picked up the slack with Jack Hughes out as New Jersey rolled to a a 3-1 win.
Not only didn’t the New Jersey Devils have leading scorer Jack Hughes for the first time this season, coach Lindy Ruff also gave red-hot goaltender Vitek Vanecek the night off.
“The desperation in the game was great,” Devils coach Lindy Ruff said. “You look at some of the opportunities ahead and the way the guys laid out the body, if you’re going to win games you’ve got to have some desperation and I thought that desperation was great.”“I liked where my game was at and I liked the way it was building,” Blackwood said after improving to 7-4-2 this season. “I guess this is just a reward for sticking with it.
The power-play goals were the first given up by Seattle in nine games. It had gone a franchise-record eight straight games, killing off 18 straight power plays. “He’s pretty much carrying us, so huge loss for us,” Hamilton said. “I think you could tell with our team it was a little different, but we need guys to step up and we had that tonight. we know it’s going to be a hard stretch ahead and we’re going to have to keep playing well.”Larsson, a first-round pick of the Devils in 2011, opened the scoring for Seattle at 14:05 of the second period with a shot from the right point that hit the stick of New Jersey forward Miles Wood.
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