Devils blow three leads in OT loss

The Devils let a point slip away.

Kyle Turris made a length of the ice rush and snapped a shot past Keith Kinkaid 3:35 into overtime and the Predators rallied to beat the Devils 4-3 on Thursday night at the Prudential Center in Newark.

Nico Hischier scored twice, Damon Severson added a goal, Kyle Palmieri had a career-high three assists, and Taylor Hall added two assists — as the Devils’ top line of Hischier, Palmieri and Hall had seven points. Kinkaid made 32 saves in a game in which the Devils blew three one-goal leads.

Forsberg tied it with 6:20 left in regulation with a power-play goal from left circle, his seventh goal of the season. It came less than a minute after Saros had kept the Predators in the game, stopping a short-handed backhander by Blake Coleman on a breakaway.

Coleman was disappointed after the game.

“I just faked and dropped and tried to go upstairs on the far side,” he said. “He made a good save and in a one-goal game I have to find a way to put that home. It came back to cost us.”

“It’s just Juice,” Turris said about the Finnish goaltender who has started the last three games with Vezina Trophy winner Pekka Rinne out with an undisclosed injury. “He comes up big for us every night. He makes saves like that to keep us in games, or keep us in a lead. He’s such a good goalie.”

The save and Forsberg’s goal set things up for Turris. He made his rush, used Devils defenseman Andy Greene as a screen and beat Kinkaid.

“There’s a lot of space in overtime, it allows you to be creative and use speed and it’s exciting hockey,” Turris said. “It’s always fun to play 3 on 3. I love the open ice.”

Viktor Arvidsson and Yannick Weber also scored as the Predators sent the Devils to their third straight loss.

“That’s was a big two points and a big comeback and it shows character to come back like that,” said Saros, who finished with 33 saves. “It was a fast game and both teams had some chances, it was a tight one.”

The Devils’ Brian Boyle, who said his chronic myeloid leukemia is in remission, played in his 700th NHL game. … Defensemen Ben Lovejoy and Steve Santini on injured reserve, defenseman Eric Gryba played in his first game this season.