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Devils fall to Predators and their former coach John Hynes

Filip Forgsberg and Matt Duchene scored in a shootout, and the Nashville Predators gave coach John Hynes a win against his former team with a wild 6-5 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night at Prudential Center. Forsberg scored two goals in regulation and Pekka Rinne made saves on Jack Hughes and Kyle...

The biggest NHL storylines: Ovechkin’s chase, Tortorella’s magic

A breath. A reset. And then the NHL resumes, with a lot on the plate. As the league returns from another successful All-Star weekend in St. Louis, the storylines abound. Here in the New York area, the Rangers are trying to push for the playoffs — or sell off before the Feb. 24 deadline. The...

Nico Hischier stars but Metro loses in NHL All-Star Game

ST. LOUIS — It was a quick exit for the Metropolitan Division, as they lost to the Atlantic, 9-5, in the first round of the 3-on-3 All-Star Game on Saturday night. So the Rangers’ Chris Kreider, the Islanders’ Mathew Barzal and the Devils’ Nico Hischier, all called it a weekend before the Atlantic lost to...

Cory Schneider yanked as Devils get destroyed by Blue Jackets

COLUMBUS, Ohio — This wasn’t the return to the starting lineup Cory Schneider envisioned. Elvis Merzlikins made a career-high 41 saves in his third shutout in his last four starts, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the New Jersey Devils 5-0 on Saturday night for their fourth straight win. Schneider started for the first time...

Making sense of NHL’s dizzying coaching carousel

Every coach in every pro sports league will say the same thing — you’re hired to be fired. It’s only a matter of time. But just past the halfway mark of the NHL season, and the coaching carousel is spinning pretty fast. There have been seven coaching changes, accounting for just over 20 percent of...

Alex Ovechkin’s hat trick propels Capitals past Devils

WASHINGTON — When Alex Ovechkin took an errant stick to the face that made him bleed, his Washington Capitals teammates knew it wouldn’t be good for the New Jersey Devils. A fired-up Ovechkin came back from the bloody mouth to record his 25th career hat trick and lead the Capitals past the Devils 5-2 on...

Devils have no answers for Auston Matthews, John Tavares

TORONTO — Auston Matthews had his first hat trick since scoring four times in his NHL debut and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the New Jersey Devils 7-4 on Tuesday night. John Tavares scored as part of a three-point night for the Leafs and Rasmus Sandin had two assists in his first game since getting...

Devils knock off Lightning hours after firing Ray Shero

NEWARK, N.J. — Louis Domingue stopped 26 shots against his former team as the New Jersey Devils beat Tampa Bay 3-1 Sunday night, ending the Lightning’s franchise record-tying 10-game winning streak. Travis Zajac, Andy Greene and Miles Wood scored for the disappointing Devils, who fired general manager Ray Shero less than two hours before the...

Devils fire general manager Ray Shero

The Devils fired general manager Ray Shero on Sunday, the team announced, marking the end to a roller-coaster four-plus-year tenure that resulted in just one playoff appearance and two first-overall picks. The firing comes a month after Shero canned head coach John Hynes. The Devils currently are 28th in the league at 16-21-7. Assistant general...

Nico Hischier leads last-place Devils past NHL-leading Capitals

WASHINGTON — Nico Hischier scored twice, Louis Domingue made 33 saves and the last-place New Jersey Devils routed the NHL-leading Washington Capitals 5-1 Saturday night to snap their losing streak at three. Hischier’s 11th and 12th goals of the season came on the same night the 2017 top pick missed out on a last-chance All-Star...

Tony DeAngelo’s historic night propels Rangers past Devils

It was a historic night for the Rangers, from the crease out to the backend. With Igor Shesterkin in nets for the second straight game to start his NHL career, and with defenseman Tony DeAngelo picking up a hat trick and a five-point game, the Rangers beat the Devils 6-3 on Thursday night at the...

What NY bettors need to know when it comes to betting hockey

He bets, he scores! Playing the pucks has always been popular in the Northeast (long before the legalization of sports betting). In Las Vegas, hockey lovers have been rushing the windows since the explosive debut of the Golden Knights. Nationally, NHL betting is settling in as a nice winter choice for fans growing tired of...

Islanders’ offense returns in overtime win over Devils

The Islanders knew they needed to rediscover their offense as thet began the second half of the season. Forcing overtime against the Devils on Tuesday night before winning 4-3 in the final seconds was a start. It was the Islanders’ first multi-goal game of 2020 and their second straight win, in front of a split...

Devils’ win streak snapped by a familiar nemesis

The New Jersey Devils were cooled off by a goalie that has their number Mikko Rantanen scored three goals, Nathan MacKinnon had two assists and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Devils 5-2 Saturday night at Prudential Center in Newark. Ian Cole and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare each had a goal and an assist for Colorado. Philipp Grubauer...

Islanders’ glaring weakness threatens to wreak this season

Might we be so bold as to suggest that if Artemi Panarin had chosen to take Scott Malkin’s millions rather than Jim Dolan’s this past summer, the Islanders would be sitting pretty as one of the league’s most legitimate Stanley Cup contenders? But alas and alack, the winger’s decision to take less to join the...

Devils hand Islanders fourth straight loss at Nassau Coliseum

Nico Hischier scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 29 shots, and the New Jersey Devils beat the New York Islanders 2-1 Thursday night at Nassau Coliseum. P.K. Subban also scored to help the Devils win their third straight and improve to 6-2-1 in their last nine games. Brock Nelson...

Star exits have Devils, Islanders on rarest of roads to success

We wouldn’t advise amateur general managers — Fess up, that’s you and that’s you and that’s you, as well — to try this at home, but when the Islanders lost their best player, John Tavares, to free agency during the summer of 2018, they became a better team the following season, and the Devils who...

Why NY sports could rise again in the 2020s

Look, I’m as guilty of this as anyone, I know that, I get that, I accept that. I’ve lived much of my life in and around New York. As a kid I rooted for some of its sports teams, rooted against some. As an adult I’ve been lucky to be in every building when it...