COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Luke Hughes scored the go-ahead goal 4:45 into the third period and the New Jersey Devils scored three times in a 1:56 span in a 3-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Hughes also had an assist, giving him his 28th multi-point game and tying Rob Ramage for the most by a defenseman before age 23 in franchise history
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Jake Allen made 34 saves, including stopping Kirill Marchenko’s one-timer attempt late in the third period
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Jet Greaves stopped 30 shots as Columbus had its two-game winning streak snapped<\/p>\n
Hughes also had an assist, giving him his 28th multi-point game and tying Rob Ramage for the most by a defenseman before age 23 in franchise history. Hughes snapped a shot from the slot to give the Devils the lead.<\/p>\n
Nico Hischier and Arseny Gritsyuk also scored for New Jersey, which trailed 2-0 going into the final 20 minutes. It is the first time the Devils have won this season when trailing after two periods. It is also their first multi-goal comeback since Nov. 29, 2024, at Detroit.<\/p>\n
Jake Allen made 34 saves, including stopping Kirill Marchenko’s one-timer attempt late in the third period.<\/p>\n
It was the fastest three goals the Devils have scored since they had three in 50 seconds during the second period on Feb. 6, 2023, against Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Mason Marchment’s first-period goal made him the first player in Columbus history to have a point in his first five games with the team. The left wing has four goals and six points since being acquired from Seattle on Dec. 19. Allen stopped Marchenko\u2019s shot high in the slot before Marchment put in the rebound in front of the net.<\/p>\n
Jake Coyle had the Blue Jackets’ other goal. Boone Jenner became the fourth player in Blue Jackets\u2019 history to record 400 points with an assist on Coyle\u2019s goal. Jenner has 205 goals and 195 assists in 766 games with the franchise.<\/p>\n
Jet Greaves stopped 30 shots as Columbus had its two-game winning streak snapped.<\/p>\n
Four seconds after Columbus\u2019 Marchenko was sent off for hooking, Hischier tipped in Luke Hughes\u2019 shot from the point 2:49 into the third as Greaves was being screened.<\/p>\n
Gritsyuk evened it 55 seconds later off a Devils\u2019 rush with a snap shot at the top of the right faceoff circle after getting the pas from Meier.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Devils: Host Utah on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets: Host Buffalo on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Luke Hughes scored the go-ahead goal 4:45 into the third period and the New Jersey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[1249,2100,1251,3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,40,4,5188,5639,4093,43,1953],"class_list":{"0":"post-390505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-blue-jackets","12":"tag-bluejackets","13":"tag-columbus","14":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","15":"tag-columbusbluejackets","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-ohio","20":"tag-ohio-columbus-blue-jackets","21":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115838040376708305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}