{"id":53778,"date":"2017-12-02T07:42:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T07:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53778"},"modified":"2017-12-02T07:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T07:42:39","slug":"boyle-scores-in-3rd-devils-beat-avalanche-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/boyle-scores-in-3rd-devils-beat-avalanche-2-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Boyle scores in 3rd, Devils beat Avalanche 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boyle scores in 3rd, Devils beat Avalanche 2-1<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Boyle scores in 3rd, Devils beat Avalanche 2-1:- Brian Boyle takes his role on the power play seriously, so he was happy to contribute and give New Jersey another close victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boyle scored a go-ahead goal early in the third period, Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist and the Devils beat the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 on Friday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Corey Schneider stopped 22 shots for the Devils, who won in defenseman Sami Vatanen’s debut with New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vatanen played his first game for the Devils after being acquired from Anaheim on Thursday. New Jersey gave up forwards Adam Henrique and Joseph Blandisi for the top-four defenseman, and he was given a full workload against Colorado. He had a team-high 22:47 of ice time.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Actually I felt really good. I was surprised about that,” Vatanen said. “I just kept playing my game and tried not to think too much.”<\/span><\/p>\n

J.T. Compher scored for Colorado and Semyon Varlamov had 19 saves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boyle broke a 1-1 tie with his fourth of the season when he knocked in a rebound on the power play at 13:11 of the third period. He took a couple of whacks at it after Varlamov fumbled Taylor Hall’s initial shot, and the second one went in.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I tried to go high at first and then he lifted his pad up so I just tried to jam it in. It was nice that it went in,” Boyle said. “Especially quick plays like that, you just want to get a good piece of the puck and fortunately for me I did.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a lot of responsibility (being on the power play). You have to contribute.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The win was the Devils’ 10th in one-goal games this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither team had great scoring chances through the first 30 minutes before the Devils cashed in on their best one on a turnover.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Jersey took a 1-0 lead when Colorado defenseman Nikita Zadorov sent a blind backhander from behind the net toward the left circle. Bratt picked it up and beat Varlamov for his eighth of the season at 13:58 of the second.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I thought there was only one guy forechecking. I can’t make those plays, I got to double check,” Zadorov said. “I saw one guy dump it in and he came from the other side of the net. I thought that guy might change, but he didn’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Cost us the game. I think I made a bad play on the second goal as well. I’m taking all the responsibility; it’s on me.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Colorado responded 3:13 later when Compher scored off Alexander Kerfoot’s rebound on the power play to tie it. It was his fourth of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Good job by Kerf trying to get pucks to the net,” Compher said. “It just came to me off a block. It’s a focus of us trying to get pucks on net. It was a good job by Mikko (Rantanen) to screen (Schneider) and we were able to get one.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Avalanche didn’t record their first shot on goal until there was 8:02 left in the first during their second power-play chance.<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTES: The NHL announced Avalanche C Nathan MacKinnon as the first star for November. MacKinnon finished with 20 points in 12 games and was the first Colorado player to have 20 points in a month since Matt Duchene in November 2015. … Devils RW Marcus Johansson returned to the lineup after missing 13 games with a concussion suffered against Vancouver on Nov. 1. … Colorado captain Gabe Landeskog served the second game of his four-game suspension for a crosscheck<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2017\/12\/01\/boyle-scores-in-3rd-devils-beat-avalanche-2-1\/108218038\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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