Mercer was called for a double-minor because Strome bled from the hit. Going to the box put the Devils, who held the lead, in a man-disadvantage for four minutes. The Devils typically elite penalty kill gave up three power-play goals in the second period to give the Capitals a lead they protected from a third-period rally.

New Jersey will face the Washington Capitals for the fourth and final time this season. The Devils are 2-0-1 in the first three showdowns. The two teams are atop the Metro Division. You can watch on M

The Capitals beat the New Jersey Devils, 6-5, on Saturday night at Prudential Center for their fourth win in a row, their seventh straight victory on the road (to tie a franchise record) and their 10th come-from-behind win.

Pierre-Luc Dubois, Rasmus Sandin and Taylor Raddysh each scored a goal and added an assist in the Washington Capitals 6-5 win over the New Jersey Devils in a meeting featuring the top two teams in the Metropolitan Division on Saturday night.

Taylor Raddysh and Pierre-Luc Dubois scored goals ten seconds apart late in the third period and the visiting Washington Capitals held on to beat the New Jersey Devils 6-5 on Saturday night.

Pierre-Luc Dubois, Rasmus Sandin and Taylor Raddysh each scored a goal and added an assist in the Washington Capitals 6-5 win over the Devils in a meeting featuring the top two teams in the Metropolitan Division on Saturday night.

The New Jersey Devils and Washington Capitals clashed on Saturday night for Hockey Fights Cancer Night at the Prudential Center. The Devils welcomed 12-year-old Theo Koshenkov, a diehard Devils fan who was recently diagnosed with Lymphoma.

A quirk of the New Jersey Devils’ season has been that, until tonight, they had not lost a game in which they scored a goal since October 25th, a 4-3 overtime loss to the New York Islanders. The four losses they suffered in that span were all shutout defeats.