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                                                                                                                                                    Monday 9 November 2015

Palmieri’s OT goal lifts Devils over Canucks 4-3 

DENIS P. GORMAN                the game, but then Hen-                                dre Burrows in the crease,      before whipping a shot        New Jersey lost defense-
Associated Press               rique and Cammalleri got                               causing the on-ice call to      from the right circle.        man Adam Larsson for
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Kyle       goals later in the first and                           be overruled.                   Edler and Baertschi scored    the game after he was
Palmieri scored on the         Kalinin made it 3-1 midway                             Kalinin got his first NHL goal  in a span of 2:07. The goals  assessed a 5-minute ma-
power play with 1:27 left in   through the second.                                    at 10:31 of the second pe-      were sandwiched around        jor for interference and a
overtime and the New Jer-      Henrique scored his team-                              riod. The Devils’ rookie held   fights pitting Derek Dorsett  game misconduct for a hit
                                                                                      off Radim Vrbata as the         vs. Jordin Tootoo and Vir-    on Jared McCann midway
                                                                                      two curled around the net       tanen vs. Bobby Farnham.      through the third period.q

Vancouver Canucks center Henrik Sedin (33) blocks New Jer-
sey Devils defenseman Andy Greene over the puck during the
first period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, New-
ark, N.J. 

                                                                    Associated Press

sey Devils endured a rally     leading seventh of the sea-
by the Vancouver Canucks       son with a short-handed
for a 4-3 victory on Sunday    goal 5:18 in. The tally ended
night.                         a sequence which began
                               with Travis Zajac forcing a
The Canucks made it 3-3        neutral-zone turnover be-
with consecutive goals by      fore carrying the puck into
Alexander Edler and Sven       the offensive zone. Zajac
Baertschi in the second pe-    skated down the right wing,
riod, with Baertschi tying it  opening a lane down the
with 5:54 left.                middle for Henrique. From
Keith Kinkaid made 28          there, he took a pass from
saves, and Adam Hen-           Zajac and beat Miller with
rique, Mike Cammalleri and     a deke.
Sergey Kalinin also scored
for New Jersey. The Devils     Cammalleri snapped the
have won four of their past    tie with 3:28 left on a back-
five games and eight of 10     hander from the slot.
since a 0-3-1 start.           Jake Virtanen appeared
Ryan Miller made 24 saves,     to tie it for Vancouver mo-
Chris Higgins also scored      ments later, but Devils
and Vancouver lost its third   coach John Hynes chal-
straight.                      lenged the call and a vid-
Higgins scored 2:20 into       eo review showed Alexan-
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