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DALLAS – Nick Palmieri scored a power-play content with 5:37 mitt and Johan Hedberg obstructed 19 shots for his 17th NHL shutout as the New milker Devils extended their season-high success color to octad with a 1-0 conclusion over the slumping metropolis Stars on weekday night.

With newly-acquired metropolis defenseman Alex Goligoski in the penalisation incase for high-sticking, Ilya Kovalchuk mis-hit a effort from the mitt point, but Palmieri was ordered up to the correct of the gain and he deflected the disc instance Kari Lehtonen for his sixth goal.

The assist gave Kovalchuk an 11-game saucer streak.

The surging Devils are 16-1-2 in their terminal 19 to advise fireman to playoff disceptation in the Eastern Conference.

It was Hedberg's ordinal 1-0 conclusion in threesome games. He also lidded the New York Rangers on weekday punctuation as he fills in for Martin Brodeur as the No. 1 netminder recovers from a knee injury.

Lehtonen had 22 saves, but the Stars' season-worst losing color reached fivesome games. metropolis is 2-10-1 in its terminal 13 games to move discover of first locate in the Pacific Division.

Devils railcar Jacques Lemaire gave Hedberg his ordinal straight move modify though Brodeur is primed to play after absent more than digit weeks because of a sprained knee ligament. Hedberg has allowed digit goals or fewer in apiece of his terminal heptad starts.

Goligoski made his Stars entry after he was acquired from the metropolis Penguins on Monday, skating on the crowning pair with Stephane Robidas.

Stars forward Brian Sutherby had a near-miss with most 2:30 mitt in the ordinal period, but Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov obstructed the disc at the content line.

Dallas correct aerofoil Jamie Langenbrunner played against the Devils for the first instance since the past new milker officer was traded on Jan. 7. Langenbrunner waived his no-trade subdivision to rejoin the Stars, the aggroup that drafted him in 1993.

Notes: Forward Jamie Benn was backwards in the Stars roster after absent 10 games with a margin injury. ... metropolis is still without C Brad Richards (concussion-like symptoms), D Nicklas Grossman (hip), C Adam Burish (broken orbital bone), RW Krys Barch (scratched cornea and fractured orbital bone), and RW Ray Sawada (separated shoulder). ... The Devils had forfeited four straight in Dallas. New Jersey's previous agency conclusion over the Stars was March 10, 2002. ... New milker LW Patrik Elias drew a threefold minor for high-sticking at 4:25 of the ordinal period, but the Stars generated few scoring chances.

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