By TIM REYNOLDS
SUNRISE — Jesper Bratt bought his second profession hat trick, Stefan Noesen scored twice and the New Jersey Devils beat the Florida Panthers 6-2 on Thursday evening to comb a two-game sequence with the Stanley Cup champions.
Jack Hughes had a objective and two assists for the Devils, who additionally gained 4-1 in Florida on Tuesday. Jake Allen stopped 25 photographs for New Jersey, which bought three power-play scores — together with a short-handed empty-netter with 5:12 left, Bratt’s third of the evening — and is now 7-2-0 in its final 9 video games.
Sam Reinhart — the primary participant with 13 objectives this season — and Jesper Boqvist scored for Florida, which hadn’t dropped two straight since Oct. 10 and 12. Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves.
TAKEAWAYS
Devils: New Jersey turned the primary staff this season to get two objectives within the remaining 12 seconds of durations. Each had been power-play tallies; Bratt scored with two seconds left within the first, Noesen with 11 seconds left within the second.
Panthers: Florida bought Sam Bennett again Thursday after he missed Tuesday’s recreation with a minor upper-body difficulty. Bennett had an help on Boqvist’s objective.
KEY MOMENT
The Panthers, down 4-2, opened the third interval on an influence play but it surely was worn out 22 seconds later when Carter Verhaeghe was known as for tripping — one in every of many calls that Florida wasn’t thrilled about throughout the night.
KEY STAT
The Devils have already got two video games with three power-play objectives this season. That they had 5 within the final six common seasons mixed.
UP NEXT
The Devils go to Tampa Bay on Saturday and can attempt to go 3-0-0 in Florida this season; they haven’t had an ideal document within the Sunshine State (excluding COVID-affected seasons) since going 4-0-0 at Florida and Tampa Bay in 2000-01.
The Panthers host NHL-leading Winnipeg on Saturday.
