NEWARK, N.J. — Jesper Bratt and Drew Stafford scored in the shootout, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Ottawa Senators 5-4 Friday night after blowing a two-goal lead in the final 1:15 of regulation.

Stafford kept the Devils in it by netting a backhand on their third shootout chance and then Bratt totally faked out Mike Condon on the fourth attempt for the game-winner. Tom Pyatt had scored for Ottawa on its second attempt.

Keith Kinkaid stopped Mike Hoffman on the Senators’ last try to give the Devils their seventh win in nine games.

Jimmy Hayes, Adam Henrique, Brian Gibbons and Damon Severson scored for New Jersey, which rallied from a 2-0 deficit with four straight goals.

Trailing 4-2 with less than two minutes to play, the Senators pulled their goaltender and tied the game on goals by Mark Stone and Christopher DiDomenico.

Stone got Ottawa within one by tapping a floating rebound behind Kinkaid with 1:15 to play. DiDomenico got his first career goal with 37 seconds left in regulation after being set up in close by Derick Brassard.

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Hoffman and Johnny Oduya also scored for Ottawa, which lost on the road for the first time in four games.

The Devils seemed in control when Gibbon broke a 2-all tie with a goal late in the second period and Severson snapped a 73-game goal drought with just under six minutes left.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 7, AVALANCHE 0: Oscar Dansk got his third win in his third career game, and Vegas beat Colorado at home to extend the best start ever by an NHL expansion team.

The Golden Knights improved to 8-1-0. They’ve won five straight, matching the longest winning streak ever by a team in its inaugural season, joining the New York Rangers (1926-27) and Edmonton Oilers (1979-80), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Dansk stopped 32 shots in his second career start. The 23-year-old has been thrust into action after injuries to starter Marc-Andre Fleury and backup Malcolm Subban and has allowed three goals on 74 shots – a .960 save percentage.

James Neal got his seventh goal, and David Perron, Oscar Lindberg, Cody Eakin, Jonathan Marchessault, Erik Haula and William carrier also scored.

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BLUE JACKETS 2, JETS 1: Josh Anderson scored 2:38 into overtime and Columbus won at home against Winnipeg.

Anderson beat backup goalie Steve Mason with a snap shot from the slot to get his third goal of the season and cap the comeback victory. Cam Atkinson scored for Columbus midway through the third period to tie it.

The winner by Anderson came shortly after Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky blocked and fell on a point-blank shot from Blake Wheeler. Bobrovsky made 29 saves.

Mason, who played in Columbus for five seasons, stopped 35 shots for Winnipeg.

BLUES 2, HURRICANES 1: Dmitri Jaskin scored his first goal of the season and Brayden Schenn added the game-winner, giving St. Louis a victory at Carolina.

It was the second straight win for the Blues.


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