Jesper Bratt had a goal and three assists and the New Jersey Devils jumped to a 3-0 lead and held on for a 5-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.
The Devils came out strong, scoring early and late in the first period to take a 2-0 lead.found Holtz in the slot for a clean wrist shot that beat Gustavsson at 3:20.sent a pass across the goal mouth to McLeod for an easy tap-in.Connor Dewar
on a breakaway as a Devils power play was expiring midway through the second. But shortly after that big stop, Kaprizov beat him with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle for a power play goal, cutting the Devils’ lead to 3-1.Matt BoldyBoldy, Minnesota’s second-leading goal scorer last year, had just returned to action after suffering an upper body injury in the second game of the season.
Bratt scored on a one-timer on the power play at 15:36 to put New Jersey up 4-2, but less than a minute later Middleton’s tipped shot rolled through traffic and past Vanecek to cut the lead back to one. The Wild pulled their goalie for an extra attacker with two minutes to play. But Boldy and Kaprizov took consecutive minor penalties, leading to Hamilton’s 5-on-3 goal.
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