By TIM REYNOLDS
Timo Meier scored the go-ahead objective late within the second interval, Jacob Markstrom made 33 saves and the New Jersey Devils snapped Florida’s seven-game successful streak by beating the Panthers 4-1 on Tuesday night time.
Jack Hughes scored within the first interval for the Devils, Paul Cotter put New Jersey up 3-1 with 15:07 left and Dougie Hamilton and Jesper Bratt every had a pair of assists. Ondrej Palat had an empty-netter to cap the win.
It was profession sport No. 498 for Markstrom. Solely 80 goalies have reached the 500-game mark in NHL historical past.
Sam Reinhart acquired his twelfth objective for Florida, and Spencer Knight made 20 saves for the Panthers. Florida performed with out ahead Sam Bennett, a late scratch with an undisclosed upper-body subject.
TAKEAWAYS
Devils: New Jersey has proven resilience all season and Tuesday was one other instance. With this win the Devils improved to 5-2-1 this season coming off a loss.
Panthers: The sport began a really robust 10-game stretch for Florida — two video games towards New Jersey, two towards NHL-leading Winnipeg, two video games with Carolina and single matchups towards Chicago, Colorado, Washington and Toronto in that span.
KEY MOMENT
Florida’s Jonah Gadjovich and New Jersey’s Brenden Dillon had a wild battle halfway by means of the second interval, 30 seconds of them holding one another’s sweater with their left arms and throwing fixed punches with their rights. Gadjovich’s helmet was knocked off and his head was tucked inside his sweater for half of the battle. Dillon ended up happening first.
KEY STAT
The Devils improved to 9-0-0 this season when main after two durations. It’s nearly a assured win within the NHL lately when main after 40 minutes; groups got here into Tuesday with a 181-4-15 file this season in that situation.
UP NEXT
The groups meet once more Thursday night time in Dawn.
