Brian Dumoulin scored 1:30 into overtime as the visiting New Jersey Devils beat the Boston Bruins 5-4 on Tuesday night.
Dumoulin took Dawson Mercer’s drop feed and buried a wrist shot high on Boston goaltender Jeremy Swayman to score the winning goal, breaking a three-game skid for playoff-bound New Jersey (42-32-7, 91 points).
The Devils’ Timo Meier collected a goal and two assists, Mercer had a goal and an assist and Luke Hughes and Nico Hischier each dished out two assists. Stefan Noesen and Simon Nemec also scored and Jake Allen made 20 saves for New Jersey.
David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist for his sixth consecutive multi-point game and Morgan Geekie extended his goal streak to six games for Boston (33-39-10, 76 points).
Also for the Bruins in their season finale, NHL debutant John Farinacci and Marat Khusnutdinov scored, Nikita Zadorov had two assists and Swayman made 21 stops.
After New Jersey used a run of three straight second-period goals to take a 4-2 lead, the hosts forced overtime by scoring the next two.
Farinacci produced his first NHL tally with 3:07 left in the second to bring Boston back within 4-3. He retrieved a rebound of Jakub Lauko’s shot and netted a tough-angle shot from the right side.
Khusnutdinov made it 4-4 at 5:08 of the third. After winning a race to a loose puck, Fabian Lysell spun behind the end line and made a centering pass to Khusnutdinov, who put a wrist shot upstairs on Allen.
New Jersey came out firing and took a 1-0 lead when Brett Pesce came over the line and slipped a pass to Meier for a wrist shot goal from the right circle at 7:25 of the first.
Geekie brought the Bruins back even just 1:18 later, taking Pastrnak’s cross-ice feed and ripping home a one-time shot from the top of the left dot.
Pastrnak gave Boston a 2-1 lead 29 seconds into the middle period. Elias Lindholm sent a diagonal pass to Pastrnak, who settled the puck as he came down the slot and slipped it inside the post.
From there, the visitors started their sprint back in front with two goals in a 30-second span. Noesen tied the game at the 4:07 mark, scoring out of a net-mouth scramble after Swayman sprawled to make an initial save on Meier.
Then, Marc McLaughlin’s faceoff win went directly to Nemec, who took a wrist shot that Swayman got a piece of but deflected into the back of the goal.
New Jersey made it 4-2 at 13:37 as Hischier’s feed from the left circle banked in off Mercer’s skate.
–Field Level Media
