Devils Lose As Penguins Snap 2-Game Skid
The Devils failed to score on all four of their power plays, including two in the third period.
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The Devils failed to score on all four of their power plays, including two in the third period.
The Devils collected their second straight win at home following a losing streak of 11 games (0-10-1) in Newark.
Miles Wood scored the tiebreaking goal on a power play early in the third period and the New Jersey Devils beat the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night in a matchup of skidding teams.
New York extended its point streak to 11-0-1 and now leads the NHL with 42 points.
The winning streak is the longest for the Islanders since they won 10 in a row last season. The team record is 15 in early 1982.
The first-place Islanders are 12-0-2 at the arena this year, and this win came with 1,000 frontline workers in the stands.
The Islanders will host 1,000 front-line workers from Northwell Health at tonight's game against the New Jersey Devils.
The Devils, who lost eight of their previous 10 games, tilted the ice and outshot the Capitals 16-5 in the third.
Scott Wedgewood made 40 saves, Kyle Palmieri scored out of a scramble with 4:37 left and the New Jersey Devils snapped a five-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory over the Boston Bruins on Sunday.
Ryan Strome scored twice and the streaking New York Rangers beat the Devils on Saturday, sending New Jersey to its fifth straight loss and eighth in nine games.
Kreider extended his goal-scoring binge to nine in the last six games and the Rangers beat the slumping New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.
Semyon Varlamov made 28 saves and came within 14 seconds of his fourth shutout, and the red-hot Islanders beat the slumping Devils on Tuesday night.
The coronavirus pandemic brought on the most significant disruption to the sporting calendar since World War II.
Alex Ovechkin broke a second-period tie and the streaking Washington Capitals went on to a 3-2 victory over the skidding New Jersey Devils on Sunday.
Nico Hischier and Pavel Zacha each scored for the second consecutive game for New Jersey, which has lost four of five.
