Every one of those attributes was needed for the Capitals to be able to skate away from their final meeting of the season with the Devils with a narrow 6-5 victory. Saturday’s win in Jersey is Washington’s seventh straight road victory, tying a franchise mark established Dec. 5, 2022-Jan. 5, 2023.

It seems the New Jersey Devils have let an old habit creep in as they suffered a 6-5 loss on home ice to the Washington Capitals on Saturday night. In the season finale between the Devils and Capitals,

A quirk of the New Jersey Devils’ season has been that, until tonight, they had not lost a game in which they scored a goal since October 25th, a 4-3 overtime loss to the New York Islanders. The four losses they suffered in that span were all shutout defeats.