Jesper Bratt\u2019s second goal broke a tie late in the third period and the New Jersey Devils rallied for a 5-3 win over the host Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The loss eliminated the Red Wings from playoff contention.<\/p>\n
Jesper Bratt added an assist, Jack Hughes had a goal and an assist and Cody Glass and Dawson Mercer also scored for the Devils (41-36-3, 85 points), who had seen their playoff hopes expire earlier in the week. Jake Allen stopped 25 shots.<\/p>\n
Emmitt Finnie had a goal and an assist and defenseman Justin Faulk and David Perron also scored for Detroit (41-30-9, 91 points), which is 2-5-1 in its last eight. Dylan Larkin had two assists and John Gibson made 28 saves.<\/p>\n
Larkin has nine points (four goals and five assists) in his last four games.<\/p>\n
Bratt put New Jersey ahead 4-3 with 3:34 left when he scored from the bottom of the left circle on a 2-on-1 rush, off a pass from Hughes. Mercer added an empty-net goal with a minute remaining.<\/p>\n
Glass tied the contest 3-3 by depositing a rebound with 8:42 left.<\/p>\n
Finnie gave the Red Wings a 3-2 lead seven minutes into the third period when he put in a rebound.<\/p>\n
Bratt tied the game 2-2 with 4:44 left in the second period with a screened shot from above the high slot, about 10 feet inside the blue line.<\/p>\n
Perron put Detroit ahead 2-1 with 8:01 remaining in the middle period with a one-timer from the high slot that deflected off the stick of New Jersey defenseman Johnathan Kovacevic.<\/p>\n
Glass hit the goal post with a little less than 2:40 left in the second.<\/p>\n
Faulk opened the scoring 9:41 into the game when his shot from the right circle, off the rush, slipped through Allen\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n
But Hughes tied it just 59 seconds later on New Jersey\u2019s first shot of the game. It came from the right circle on a 2-on-1 rush.<\/p>\n
Red Wings defenseman Ben Chiarot hit the goal post at around the 8:15 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesper Bratt\u2019s second goal broke a tie late in the third period and the New Jersey Devils rallied…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-550704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116388904849989823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550704","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=550704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}