Hischier, Devils rally past Golden Knights in OT

NEWARK, N.J. --The New Jersey Devils rallied from a pair of three-goal deficits to take a 5-4 overtime win against the Vegas Golden Knights at Prudential Center on Friday.

Nico Hischier scored the winning goal at 41 seconds of overtime. It was the first overtime goal of his NHL career and the first overtime win in seven games that have gone past regulation for the Devils this season.
"It is one of the first goals in your career you will remember your whole life," Hischier said.
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The goal was reviewed for offside, delaying the celebration momentarily.
"I was halfway undressed in here," Devils forward Blake Coleman said. "I just ran back out on the ice and by the time I got back out there, they had called it a goal and I ran back in here."

Travis Zajac, Miles Wood, Kyle Palmieri and Brett Seney also scored for the Devils, who trailed 3-0 after 9:23 and 4-1 at 3:57 of the second period.
"It wasn't a dream start by any means, being down three," said Palmieri, who scored his New Jersey-leading 17th goal to make it 4-3 at 6:24 of the third period.
"It was one of those things where we didn't really know what [Vegas] could handle as a team over there. Once we got to our game, we knew we could control the play and get scoring chances. We had a ton of scoring chances in the first and finally broke through in the second, and I think throughout our lineup we had contributions.
"We were missing a pretty important part of our team and you are going to need that from everybody. Everybody contributed tonight. It's a fun win and we are going to enjoy it."
The Devils played without forward Taylor Hall (lower body), who leads New Jersey in scoring with 31 points (eight goals, 23 assists) in 29 games.
William Karlsson, with two goals, Alex Tuch and William Carrier scored for Vegas (18-14-2), which is 9-2-1 in its past 12 games.
"After we scored that third one, we just stopped playing the rest of the night," Karlsson said. "It was the Devils' game after that.
"It's more [on] us. We let them play today and that is not how we should do it."
The Devils outshot the Golden Knights 37-15 after falling behind 3-0.
Keith Kinkaid made 14 saves in relief of Cory Schneider to earn the victory for the Devils (11-13-6), who have won twice in their past 10 games (2-4-4). Kinkaid entered at 9:36 of the first period after Schneider allowed three goals on seven shots.
"I just got to do my job and stop the puck and keep the score at bay," Kinkaid said. "We could have maybe had a few more goals out there. It was just an onslaught of shots on [Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury]. It was a resilient effort tonight."
Fleury, who made 37 saves, lost for the third time in his past 13 games.
Karlsson scored on the power play at 3:57 of the second period to make it 4-1. He has four goals in his past three games and has a Vegas-leading 13.

Tuch scored to make it 1-0 at 1:19 of the first period. Karlsson scored to make it 2-0 at 7:45, and Carrier scored at 9:23 to make it 3-0 and end Schneider's appearance.
Zajac scored on the power play at 2:59 of the second period to make it 3-1, but Karlsson answered with his power-play goal 58 seconds later.
Wood made it 4-2 at 10:21 of the second period.
Seney tied it 4-4 at 14:55 of the third period.

"They played a really good game, but we can't let them take it to us," Tuch said. "They played in our end the whole night and we sat back and let it happen."

They said it

"I think when we got up 3-0, the boys thought it was over and we just stopped skating. You can't stop skating against a team like New Jersey."-- Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant
"That was big time. He made some huge saves at the end of the second. To come in after not expecting to play and he was ready to go. He was the reason we were able to keep them at four and come back and win." -- Devils forward Blake Coleman on Keith Kinkaid

Need to know

Schneider, who last won on Dec. 27, 2017, is 0-15-3 in his past 19 starts. … Golden Knights forward Max Pacioretty missed the game with an undisclosed injury. … Golden Knights forward Paul Stastny returned to the lineup after missing 30 games and had two shots in 16:53.

What's next

Golden Knights: At the New York Rangers on Sunday (12:30 p.m. ET; NHLN, SN, MSG, ATTSN-RM, NHL.TV)
Devils:At the Nashville Predators on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; FS-TN, MSG, NHL.TV)