Rangers slip past Devils with 3-1 victory
New Jersey has lost five of its past seven games.
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New Jersey has lost five of its past seven games.
Jack Hughes, Nico Hischier and Pavel Zacha scored for the Devils, and Nico Daws made 27 saves.
New Jersey looks nothing like non-contending team, has 7 different goal scorers in win.
Jon Gillies made 29 saves for New Jersey, which was coming off an impressive 6-1 victory at Pittsburgh on Thursday.
The Devils won for just the third time in their last 12 games.
Brian Boyle scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, Tristan Jarry made 28 saves and the Pittsburgh Penguins kept rolling with a 4-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday.
New Jersey, playing its third game in four nights, won back-to-back road games for the first time this season after beating Montreal on Tuesday.
The Devils (16-26-5) were looking to redeem themselves after dropping the first of back-to-back games, 4-1 to the Ottawa Senators.
Nick Paul and Connor Brown each had a goal and an assist, Matt Murray stopped 32 shots, and the Ottawa Senators beat the New Jersey Devils 4-1 Monday night.
New Jersey's Jack Hughes, at 20 the youngest All-Star, also scored three goals for the Metropolitan team in the All-Star extravaganza's first trip to Las Vegas.
After blowing an early three-goal lead and collapsing in the third period at Toronto on Monday, New Jersey carried that 6-4 loss into the game less than 24 hours later.
Auston Matthews had three goals and an assist, and the Toronto Maple Leafs scored four times in the third period to rally to a 6-4 win over the Devils on Monday night.
Jesper Boqvist scored for the Devils, who've lost seven of their last eight games. The lone victory in that stretch came last Saturday against Carolina.
Cirelli made it 3-2 off a pass from Brayden Point at 11:55, exactly 1 minute after Jack Hughes tied it for the Devils.
New Jersey is 1-5 in its last six.
