EDMONTON – When the New Jersey Devils get a lead, they hold the lead.
Rookie Arseny Gritsyuk and Cody Glass every had a objective and an help because the Devils held on to edge the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 on Tuesday.
The Devils (26-22-2) improved to 17-0-0 when main after 40 minutes and have received 4 of their final 5 outings, together with a 2-1 time beyond regulation victory over the host Calgary Flames on Monday.
“It feels good, particularly on a back-to-back going towards the Oilers,” Glass mentioned. “It’s a troublesome process, however I felt like we did a extremely good job within the first and second interval. We knew the storm was going to be coming, we knew (Connor) McDavid was going to be on the market for almost all of the interval, so it was all about deflecting him to the surface and (goalie Jake Allen) perhaps had his greatest interval of the 12 months, so it was superior.”
Allen survived a barrage within the third as Edmonton outshot his crew 13-3 and he recorded 22 saves total to earn the win in web for New Jersey.
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“He was excellent,” mentioned Devils coach Sheldon Keefe. “You recognize Edmonton was going to have a surge. I assumed we managed that within the first and second interval in all probability as near excellent as we might have. We knew they had been going to have a push and we would have liked to get some saves and he was excellent.
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“Jake was nice. Jake was excellent when he performed in right here final 12 months, that’s why we wished to get him again in. He clearly feels good when he performs on this constructing. Credit score to him to stick with it and keep centered and be prepared when referred to as upon to seal the sport within the third.”
Allen mentioned it wasn’t shocking to see star ahead McDavid and the Oilers put collectively a determined struggle to the end.
“I feel all of us knew within the second intermission that they had been going to have a push,” Allen mentioned. “We knew their greatest participant was going to play nearly all of that interval and it appeared like he did. We simply needed to discover a method to get by it.
“They’re going to get their appears to be like, that’s the truth of it, they’re a great group, they’re actually good gamers over there, so we’ve to know they’re going to have momentum, it’s simply how will we get by that momentum and I assumed the blokes did a terrific job.
“We’re going to make errors, however I feel for probably the most half we did a extremely good job and till that third interval, we didn’t give them a complete lot. I’m pleased with the group.”
McDavid got here into the sport with at the least one level in all 17 of his profession video games towards the Devils (7G, 24A), which stood because the second-longest lively level streak by a participant towards a single opponent. Nevertheless, he was held pointless on the evening and the streak got here to an finish.
Matthew Savoie replied for the Oilers (25-18-8) who had a two-game successful streak halted, the ninth time this season they’ve failed to increase a successful streak to a few video games.
“The truth that we haven’t been capable of get just a little run, we wish to clearly get some momentum and win some video games in a row, that’s the way you climb up the standings,” mentioned Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch.
“Tonight, within the first two durations we didn’t present up. I don’t assume there’s a sample or something to say why we’re doing that, however it positively is irritating.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 21, 2026.
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