COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Devils just have to leave the Prudential Center.
Taylor Hall scored twice, Travis Zajac had a goal and an assist and the Devils beat the Blue Jackets 5-1 on Saturday night.
Jacob Josefson and Seth Helgeson also scored and Cory Schneider had 31 saves for the Devils, who won their sixth straight road game. On the other hand, they have lost seven in a row at home.
The Blue Jackets dropped the second game of a back-to-back after losing to Pittsburgh in overtime on Friday night. They are 6-8-1 since their franchise record 16-game winning streak and were out of sync for most of the game on Saturday.
Matt Calvert scored for Columbus in the third period, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 25 shots.
The Devils’ first line of Hall, Zajac and Kyle Palmieri did much of the damage, with Palmieri getting an assist on Hall’s first goal.
Hall scored 3:29 into the game when he slipped a backhand attempt past Bobrovsky on a rush after taking a nice drop pass from Zajac. Columbus defender Zach Werenski had dropped his stick at the center line and tried to get in Hall’s way but couldn’t prevent the goal, which was the 12th of the season for the wing.
The Blue Jackets bumbled through a pair of power plays in the first period, their first in three games since before the All-Star break.
The Devils went up 2-1 1:49 into the second. Josefson got his first goal of the season when he redirected Andy Greene’s wrist shot into the net. Zajac got a power-play goal with 1:02 left when he tapped in a rebound off Bobrovsky’s pads.
The Blue Jackets got a short-handed goal with 8:25 left in the game. Calvert got a slick pass from William Karlsson from the back wall and drilled it in from the slot.
New Jersey got an empty-net goal from Hall nine seconds after the Blue Jackets pulled their goalie with 3:12 left. Bobrovsky came back into the game only to be scored on by Helgeson with 29 seconds remaining.
The Devils are 7-0-1 in their eight road games since the start of the year.
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