NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Dougie Hamilton scored twice and the New Jersey Devils beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1 on Friday night for their seventh straight win.

Connor Brown also scored and Nico Hischier had two assists for New Jersey, which hasn’t lost since a season-opening defeat at Carolina. Jake Allen stopped 16 shots to improve to 4-0-0.

William Eklund scored for San Jose, which was coming off a 6-5 overtime win at the New York Rangers that snapped a season-opening six-game losing streak (0-4-2). Yaroslav Askarov finished with 27 saves.

Trailing 1-0 after one period, the Devils took the lead with two power-play goals by Hamilton in the first half of the second.

During an advantage that carried over from the closing seconds of the opening period, the puck came to Hamilton in the left circl

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