Cody Glass scored two goals and had an assist as the visiting New Jersey Devils jumped out to a three-goal lead and then held on for a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night.
It was the second career three-point game for Glass, who produced a hat trick in March 2024.
Lenni Hameenaho and Nico Hischier each had a goal and an assist and Connor Brown also scored for New Jersey, which won its third straight game and prevailed for the fifth time in six games.
Jacob Markstrom made 21 saves for the Devils.
Linus Karlsson had a goal and an assist and Teddy Blueger, Zeev Buium and Brock Boeser also scored goals for Vancouver, which lost for the 12th time in its last 13 games (1-10-2). Kevin Lankinen finished with 19 saves.
New Jersey took a 1-0 lead at the 1:41 mark of the first period when Hameenaho, a second-round pick in 2023 playing in his third NHL game, scored his first career goal, chipping in a backhand rebound.
The Devils extended the lead to 3-0 early in the second period with two goals in 40 seconds.
Hischier got the first one on the power play, one-timing a Jack Hughes pass from the high slot for his team-leading 16th goal at 2:34. Glass, stationed in front of the crease, followed with a redirection of a Hameenaho shot.
Karlsson got Vancouver on the scoreboard midway through the middle period when he roofed a rebound of a Nils Hoglander shot. Two minutes later, Bleuger then cut the lead to 3-2 with a short-handed goal on a wrist shot from the right circle at the end of 3-on-1 break.
Brown made it 4-2 with a power-play goal, snapping a 15-game goal drought at 15:12 of the middle frame. Buium answered for the Canucks near the end of the period when he put in a rebound of his own shot.
Glass put the Devils up 5-3 midway through the third period when he chipped a bouncing puck in the slot past Lankinen’s blocker side.
Vancouver pulled Lankinen for an extra attacker with 3:54 to go and Boeser, after the Devils twice missed opportunities to seal the contest with empty-net tries, cut the lead to 5-4 on a rebound with 1:12 remaining.
The Canucks failed to garner a shot on goal after that.
–Field Level Media
