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NEWARK – The National Hockey League finally has its first 10-win team this season.
And it callsl the Garden State home.
In what was as significant of a game as a team can have in early November, the New Jersey Devils used a Jesper Bratt overtime game-winner just 1:33 into the extra session to give them the milestone 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at the Prudential Center on Thursday night.
New Jersey is now behind only the Colorado Avalanche in the league standings — and they handed them an overtime loss in Newark on Oct. 26 — and has emerged as an early-season powerhouse.
It appeared the Canadiens might beat them to the 10-win plateau, however. Montreal led 3-2 in the game’s dying seconds, but Timo Meier tied it up late with goaltender Jacob Markstrom on the bench for the extra attacker.
“I didn’t know (we were the first), but it’s nice to get to ten wins,” Meier said. “We want to keep building our team. We know what we’re trying to accomplish on a daily basis, to get better. This game was a good one for us to learn from.”
As the cross-river rival New York Rangers find themselves as the NHL’s only winless team at home, the Devils are the only team in the league without a loss there, improving to 6-0-0 at “The Rock.”
Bratt ensured it would be so, beating rookie goaltender Jakub Dobes on a breakaway after forcing a turnover from Alex Newhook to send the play the other way.
“I just tried to read the goalie’s movement and felt like I came in with a lot of speed,” Bratt said. “I felt pretty comfortable in that situation to try to make him believe I’d do one thing, and just try to read what the goalie was doing.”
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