Jake Allen stops 24 as Devils rout Flyers 5-0

By Allan Kreda

New Jersey scored 4 times successful the 2nd play and Jake Allen made 24 saves arsenic the Devils defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 5-0 connected Wednesday.

Ondrej Palat, Luke Hughes, Nathan Bastian and Dawson Mercer scored for New Jersey successful a 13-minute span arsenic the Devils won for the 3rd clip successful 4 games. Jack Hughes scored aboriginal successful the third, his 20th extremity of the season.

The shutout was Allen’s 3rd this play and the 27th of his career. New Jersey’s starter Jacob Markstrom is out 4 to six weeks after suffering a genu wounded against Boston connected Jan. 22.

Palat bushed Flyers goaltender Samuel Ersson connected the powerfulness play 54 seconds into the mediate period. Luke Hughes made it 2-0 astatine 6:27. Bastian added different powerfulness play extremity astatine 12:41 followed by Mercer astatine 13:43.

Timo Meier, Brett Pesce and Jesper Bratt each had 2 assists.

Flyers manager John Tortorella yanked Ersson aft Mercer’s extremity and replaced him with Ivan Fedotov.

Jack Hughes made it 5-0 astatine 1:58 of the third. He besides assisted connected Palat’s extremity and leads New Jersey with 60 points.

Devils captain Nico Hischier missed his 2nd contest after being cross-checked successful the midsection by Montreal’s Nick Suzuki past Saturday.

Ersson made 12 saves. Fedotov stopped 9 successful relief.

Takeaways
Devils: Improved to 15-8-4 astatine home. New Jersey is 8-2-1 astatine Prudential Center since Dec. 12.

Flyers: Fell to 11-12-5 connected the road. Philadelphia is 2-5-2 successful their past 9 roadworthy games.

Key moment
Palat’s extremity turned the momentum successful New Jersey’s favour aft a scoreless archetypal period.

Key stat
Bratt present has 58 points successful 53 games, 1 twelvemonth aft putting up a career-high 83 points.

Up Next:
The Flyers big the New York Islanders connected Thursday. The Devils sojourn the Buffalo Sabres connected Sunday.