Timo Meier scores in shootout, Devils beat Capitals 3-2

Akira Schmid made 20 saves in regulation and overtime and was a perfect 4 of 4 in the shootout to pick up his seventh win in 10 starts this season. Meier was the only player to score in the shootout, making up for a couple of recent penalties since joining the Devils.

The Devils have won five of seven and trail the first-place Carolina Hurricanes by just four points with 18 games left in the regular season. They’re 7-3-1 during Mercer’s 11-game scoring streak in which he has put up 19 points. Washington has gone the other way, having lost nine of 12 around the team’s first trade deadline selloff in more than a decade. Darcy Kuemper played well, making 38 saves in regulation and overtime, but fell to 0-6-2 in his career against New Jersey, the only NHL team he has not beaten.

Trevor van Riemsdyk and Dylan Strome scored for the banged-up Capitals, who were without injured defensemen Nick Jensen and Martin Fehervary for a third consecutive game. Their already slim playoff hopes are evaporating with each passing day, and they now trail archrival Pittsburgh by five points for the second and final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

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