The New Jersey Devils’ slide continues.
Lawson Crouse scored a aim and added an help, and Karel Vejmelka made 35 saves to assist lead the Arizona Coyotes to a 4-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday evening at Prudential Middle in Newark.
Dysin Mayo, Travis Boyd and Johan Larsson additionally scored for Arizona, which has received three of its final 5 video games. Loui Eriksson added two assists.
“The one factor we knew about our staff after we began coaching camp was (that) we had a number of gamers with a chip on their shoulder,” Arizona coach Andre Tourigny mentioned. “Gamers who needed to both (bounce) again or show themselves.”
Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 13 of 17 pictures and Nico Hischier had the lone aim for New Jersey, which has dropped 4 of its final 5.
The matchup was the primary between the Jap and Western Convention franchises since Dec. 14, 2019 — which the Devils received 2-1 — and the primary on the Prudential Middle since Oct. 25, 2019 (a 5-3 win for the Coyotes).
It was not one the seventh-place staff within the Metropolitan Division will bear in mind fondly, even when New Jersey did lead 1-0 after the primary interval because of Hischier’s power-play aim 6:09 into the sport.
The sequence started when All-Star choice Jack Hughes blew previous Janis Moser, however had his backhand try knocked away. Jesper Bratt corralled the unfastened puck and located Hischier, who beat Vejmelka with a wrist shot.
Hischier’s eighth aim of the season was one in every of 12 pictures the Devils had been credited with within the first, whereas Arizona’s lone try got here off Ilya Lyubushkin’s follow 1:07 left the interval.
“We did a number of good things,” Devils coach Lindy Ruff mentioned. “If the message wasn’t there, we wouldn’t have come out the way in which we did.”
Arizona drew even at 1 on Mayo’s third of the season at 6:50 of the second interval. Crouse put the Coyotes forward along with his tenth of the season 4:42 later.
Boyd prolonged the result in 3-1 by deflecting Clayton Keller’s try previous Blackwood at 14:13.
“We simply had a little bit extra urgency,” Arizona defenseman Jakob Chychrun mentioned, when requested of the distinction between the Coyotes’ first and second intervals. “We had been skating higher.”
Any comeback hopes New Jersey had had been snuffed out when Larsson transformed Crouse’s feed 8:27 into the third.
“They’re actually good off rush (performs) however don’t maintain a number of (offensive zone time) and we knew that, and we had been attempting to be fast within the (defensive zone) and as soon as we did that, we had the puck much more usually,” Chychrun mentioned. “That’s when you may play with the puck and generate offense.”
What irked the Devils is that they outplayed the Coyotes for a lot of the sport. New Jersey completed with an 36-17 benefit in pictures on aim and out-attempted Arizona 66-43. The Devils additionally went 1 for two on the person benefit and killed each Coyotes energy performs.
“It’s utterly on us,” New Jersey defenseman Ryan Graves mentioned. “We didn’t handle the sport very effectively and it’s on us.”
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