NEWARK, NJ - The Devils ended their 2024-25 with a 5-2 setback to Detroit at Prudential Center on Wednesday night in the regular season finale. New Jersey, which played with a depleted lineup as the coaches rested most of the team’s top players, finishes the year with a 42-33-7 record and 91 points.

The Bruins showed some fight in their season finale on Tuesday at the Garden, but in the end they just couldn’t finish the job. The result was emblematic of their season. The B’s wiped out a two-goal deficit only to see Brian Dumoulin beat Jeremy Swayman from the top of the left circle in overtime to lift the playoff-bound New Jersey Devils to a 5-4 win.

John Farinacci scored his first NHL goal in his debut to bring the Bruins within one score. Marat Khusnutdinov then tied the game. “Obviously it wasn’t a perfect game,” Davi