ST. LOUIS — Nico Hischier and Yegor Sharangovich triggered a five-goal blitz within the third interval and Jon Gillies made 27 saves because the New Jersey Devils rallied for a 7-4 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night time.
New Jersey, enjoying its third sport in 4 nights, gained back-to-back highway video games for the primary time this season after beating Montreal on Tuesday.
“We caught with it. It was a resilient effort,” Devils ahead Jimmy Vesey mentioned. “A variety of completely different guys stepped up. A giant win for our group.”
Brayden Schenn had two objectives for the Blues. Klim Kostin and Justin Faulk additionally scored.
St. Louis, enjoying its first sport in 12 days, had gained 12 of the earlier 13 conferences between the groups.
“We’ve been off a very long time. That would have been a part of it,” coach Craig Berube mentioned.
Hischier scored twice, together with an empty-net purpose with 9 seconds left.
Vesey, Jesper Boqvist, P.Ok. Subban and Michael McLeod additionally scored for the Devils, who jumped out to a 2-0 lead within the first interval.
St. Louis answered with three straight objectives, however New Jersey scored 5 in a span of 10:42 within the remaining interval.
“An incredible comeback,” coach Lindy Ruff mentioned. “The second interval obtained away from us just a little. I assumed our guys actually responded within the third.”
Hischier broke a 3-all tie by firing a shot previous goalie Jordan Binnington with 8:26 left. Vesey pushed the result in 5-3 earlier than Schenn introduced the Blues inside one with 1:43 to play. Simply 24 seconds later, Boqvist made it 6-4.
Sharangovich tied it at 3 off a go from Hischier with 10:52 remaining.
“After that (Montreal) sport, undoubtedly there was a lift of morale,” Vesey mentioned. “We’re hoping to maintain the ball rolling.”
Faulk snapped a 2-all tie with a second-period drive that hit the submit after which bounced off the precise leg of Gillies earlier than trickling throughout the purpose line.
Kostin scored for the primary time in 30 video games, one-timing a feed from Oskar Sundqvist.
Schenn tied it by slapping in a unfastened puck from shut vary whereas diving throughout the ice early within the second.
Subban scored on a drive from the excessive slot simply 2:12 into the sport.
Gillies improved to 3-6-1. He performed one sport for the Blues this season earlier than being traded on Dec. 15. He made 36 saves in a 3-2 loss to Anaheim on Dec. 12.
Binnngton gave up two objectives on the primary 9 pictures he confronted and fell to 11-10-3.
“Anybody can beat anybody at any time and we’ve obtained to comprehend that,” Schenn mentioned. “They caught it to us.”
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