Unfortunately, one of the Devils’ current key players has a serious hand injury that could keep him out for a few months
January 6: The host New Jersey Devils defeated the undermanned Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday night after Michael McLeod scored the game-winning goal with 8:04 remaining.
The Blackhawks, who finished a winless five-game road trip (0-4-1) without Connor Bedard, played the final forty-nine minutes without the star rookie after Bedard was leveled in the open ice by Devils defenseman Brendan Smith.
Jason Dickinson and Boris Katchouk scored for the Hawks.
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“Well, I believe he hit his head, but I’m not positive,” Blackhawks head coach Luke Richardson remarked.
“I just got in there now and haven’t heard anything other than everybody’s coming home tonight;
Everybody’s fine to come home, and we’ll get him checked out at home.”
The Devils have won five straight games (5-1-0), with goals from Holtz in the second, Simon Nemec in the third, and Tyler Toffoli adding an empty-netter with 27 seconds remaining.
Vitek Vanecek, the goalie, made 23 saves. For Chicago, which has nine players on injured reserve, Arvid Soderblom made 28 saves.
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Hurricanes 6; Capitals 2.
Defenseman Brent Burns helped the Hurricanes overcome a two-goal deficit to win the game and extend their winning streak to five games. Burns scored two goals and assisted on another.
Carolina was behind 2-1 going into the third quarter until goals from Seth Jarvis and Andrei Svechnikov gave them the lead.
Making his NHL debut, Vasily Ponomarev scored a goal and an assist for three points in the third period.
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The Capitals scored twice in the first period on shots from Nic Dowd and Dylan Strome. Although Washington has allowed 12 goals in back-to-back home losses this week, Darcy Kuemper has stopped 28 shots.
Ducks 1, Jets 3.
Winnipeg, who leads the league, defeated Anaheim on the road thanks to goals in the third period from Nate Schmidt and Cole Perfetti, which broke open a tie game.
The Jets, who are on a 13-1-2 run and a five-game winning streak that has propelled them up the standings, also have a goal from Nikolaj Ehlers.
With 16 of his saves coming in the third period, goalie Laurent Brossoit made 37 stops, while Vladislav
Namestnikov recorded two assists. In 11 straight games, Winnipeg has accrued points (9-0-2).
The Ducks, who have only won four of their previous 23 games (4-18-1) and only one of their last seven games (1-5-1) during an eight-game homestand, were led by Mason McTavish’s goal. John Gibson, the goalie, stopped 24 shots in the losing effort.
