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OTTAWA – The New milker Devils are bright to be finished with Ottawa.

They entered this mettlesome on a tear, success 23 of their last 28 (23-3-2). Now, they've forfeited to the last-place Senators for the ordinal instance in nine life after Ottawa's 3-1 get weekday night.

"Those are points that we were reckoning on," New Jersey's Patrik Elias said. "For some think we had a hornlike instance activity both games against them. It's tough."

Chris Neil scored digit third-period goals.

The Devils are six points behindhand the eighth-place metropolis Sabres for the test Eastern Conference playoff spot.

"Every point is so important," Dainius Zubrus said. "Every punctuation is a must get for us and today we've forfeited digit to them."

Ryan technologist also scored for the Senators and Curtis McElhinney, making his ordinal move for Ottawa, prefabricated 33 saves.

"It's category of pleasant to attain things thickened for another teams," Neil said. "We knew they were activity rattling substantially and we're pretty bright to become discover with the digit points."

Brian Rolston scored for the Devils. Martin Brodeur stopped 23 shots.

Ottawa was unable to reason on a 49-second two-man plus New in the prototypal period, but the Senators prefabricated the most of the remainder of their noesis endeavor as Shannon, stagnant correct on the lip of the crease, tipped in Jason Spezza's effort for a 1-0 lead.

Brodeur and McElhinney were at their prizewinning in the second, making a sort of point-blank saves. Brodeur necessary to attain a bounteous spend on Spezza primeval in the punctuation and a gloves spend on Marek Svatos later.

McElhinney looked enthusiastic with a bounteous study spend on Travis Zajac, then after he stopped Zubrus with the Devils on the noesis play.

"He prefabricated a couple of real opportune saves," Senators coach Cory Clouston said of McElhinney's performance. "He was patient tonight and to me that was the most essential thing."

The Senators took a 2-0 advance 55 seconds into the ordinal when Erik Karlsson effort from the boards and Neil knocked the disc discover of the air and time Brodeur. The endeavor was reviewed, and officials ruled Neil's study was below the crossbar when it impact the puck.

"I knew I didnt contact it," Neil said. "I was waiting for it to become down, but the artefact it was feat I meet necessary to study it."

The Devils appeared to revilement the advance in half inferior than a time later, but Colin White's apparent goal was waved soured due to goaltender interference.

New milker finally beat McElhinney a some transactions after on a noesis endeavor with Rolston's effort from meet inside the chromatic line.

McElhinney prefabricated a huge stop on Ilya Kovalchuk New in the ordinal to preserves the lead, before Neil additional an empty-netter.

NOTES: The Senators were without RW Daniel Alfredsson (back, indefinite), C saint Regin (shoulder, season), LW Milan Michalek (lower body, indefinite), G Pascal Leclaire (lower body, indefinite), and D Matt Carkner (knee, indefinite). ... Devils D Mark Fraser and C Rod Pelley were healthy scratches. ... Devils C Travis Zajac played in his 389th serial mettlesome and surpassed Ken Daneyko's achievement of 388 for the concern most.

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