Jack Hughes scores twice as Avalanche fall to Devils, 4-3, in overtime

Corey Masisak, The Denver Post on Oct 26, 2025

Published in Hockey

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NEWARK, N.J. — The Colorado Avalanche rallied twice Sunday afternoon, which was enough to claim one point.

It was not enough to snap a losing streak that has now reached four games.

Jack Hughes scored his second goal of the game for the New Jersey Devils to send the Avs to a 4-3 overtime defeat at Prudential Center. Both Nathan MacKinnon and Martin Necas had turnovers on the shift ahead of Hughes’ tally.

Brock Nelson scored the second goal of his season with 6:05 remaining in the third period to help rally the Avs for a second time in this game. New Jersey native Ross Colton, who was promoted to the second line in the middle of this contest, made a play from behind the net to feed Nelson near the edge of the crease.

The Avs allowed goals on back-to-back shifts midway through the first period. Devils forward Arseny Gritsyuk got tangled up with Artturi Lehkonen near the Colorado bench, but got up and cut to the net for a pass from Timo Meier and a goal at 9:09 of the first.

Hughes made it a 2-0 game 39 seconds later. Hughes collected a pass from defenseman Simon Nemec near the Avs' blue line and then beat Miner with a wrist shot from the left circle. At that point, the Devils had scored twice on four shots, but Miner settled in and the team in front of him started playing a lot better.

Valeri Nichushkin scored his fifth goal of the season at 12:55. He collected his third goal in the past three games on the rebound of a Cale Makar shot.

MacKinnon missed a chance to tie the game with a one-timer from the slot that went wide, but he made up for it later in the same shift. Lehkonen shot from almost the same spot in the middle of the ice, and the puck ended up in the crease behind New Jersey goalie Jake Allen. MacKinnon was there to poke it across the goal line at 17:03 of the first.

It was MacKinnon's seventh goal of the year and 14th point, which leads the club in both categories. From the time that Hughes made it 2-0 until midway through the second, the Avs dominated the play.

New Jersey went nearly 13 minutes with just one shot on goal in the middle period, but scored on the second. It came at the end of a long shift that was spent entirely in the Devils end ... until the home team ended up with a 2-on-0 out of nowhere.

Colton's shot from the left point was deflected by captain Gabe Landeskog and it went right to Nemec in front of Allen. Nemec made a quick pass to Connor Brown, who broke out of the zone ahead of all five Avs for a breakaway goal at 12:51 of the second.

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