Devils score five straight goals to beat Avalanche

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The young New Jersey Devils are playing better and even starting to stun some of the NHL’s best teams.

Nathan Bastian scored a power-play goal with 6:56 left, Yegor Sharangovich iced the game with a short-handed, empty-net goal and the Devils rallied from a three-goal deficit to beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-3 on Tuesday night.

"I think when you look at it, we’ve played a lot of games like this where you get down and we battle back but we don’t quite make it all the way back or win the game," Devils coach Lindy Ruff said. "I thought tonight there was just a belief that we were going to come back."

Tomas Tatar, Ty Smith, Damon Severson also scored for the Devils. Nico Daws made 23 saves for New Jersey, which had its biggest comeback win of the season.

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New Jersey Devils' Nathan Bastian (14) celebrates with Jack Hughes after scoring a goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in Newark, N.J. The Devils won 5-3. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

"It was a great win obviously," said Tatar, who picked up his 400th career point. "We are trying to create here a winning mentality and these kind of games give it to you. You have to respect their team; they have a lot of experience, they’ve been around for a long time. I think in the third, they were going to battle back but we kept skating and played our game and I think we deserve to win."

Jesper Bratt added three assists for the Devils and Jack Hughes had two, with both helping out on the game-winner.

Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Cale Makar scored for the Avalanche, who were 23-0 this season when leading after