Coyotes rally past Devils

In Newark, the New Jersey Devils were unable to hold a second period lead and ended up losing, 5-3, to the visiting Arizona Coyotes.

Antti Raanta made 32 saves to get the win.

“We got a really important goal at the end of the first period, so the game was still alive and suddenly [Grabner] got the breakaway and scored,” Raanta said. “After the second period, we knew that if we stuck together and played good defense, we’d get the chances. We got the early goal in the third and it was nice to get a win after what happened last night (4-2 loss at the New York Islanders).”

Pavel Zacha, Jack Hughes and Sami Vatanen scored for New Jersey.

“I think tonight was a game I felt pretty good, obviously,” Hughes said. “It would have been nice for the team to win. We played a really good hockey game, made a few mistakes. That’s not a good loss, but I felt good out there at times, I felt confident.”

Barrett Hayton scored his fist NHL goal for the Coyotes.

“It’s definitely a pretty cool experience,” Hayton said. “It’s something that I dreamed of for the longest time and it was a great play by [Schmaltz]. There was a turnover in the neutral zone, and he got it with speed on the 2-on-1 and widened out, made a little fake, and pushed it around their defenseman and I was just going to the net.”

The Coyotes put two on the board in the third period to grab the win from the Devils.

Nick Schmaltz, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Michael Grabner (shorthanded), and Clayton Keller (empty net) scored for Arizona.

“I don’t know if it was pretty, but we found a way and everybody battled hard,” Ekman-Larsson said. “Some nights it’s going to be games like that, but good teams find a way to win. I feel like we’re a good team. We stuck with it and battled really hard.”

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Mackenzie Blackwood made 12 saves in the loss.

“I could have been better. I was sick with the flu for a couple of days, so I was trying to get my body back to good again,” Blackwood said. “t was a weird kind of game, there wasn’t much action and then there was a scoring chance. If I make two more saves, we win in the end. I definitely could have been better, but I’ll get back to that in practice.”