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TO DEVILS, SID'S VICIOUS

PITTSBURGH - Taken to the School of Skill, the Devils' winning streak didn't survive Sidney Crosby's lessons. "It's a humbling loss," Scott Clemmensen said after New Jersey's run of five straight victories died here last night in a 4-1 loss to...

BC TROPHY CASE FULL THANKS TO DEVS PAIR

They have the pictures to prove it. Boy, do they have the pictures. It's quite a set, among Scott Clemmensen's treasures, the photos of the 2001 Boston College hockey team's seniors: 2001 Hockey East regular season champs, playoff champs, Beanpot...

DEVS READY TO PUT WIN STREAK TO 'TEST'

PITTSBURGH - While savoring his career highlight, his first-ever four-game winning streak, and the Devils' five consecutive victories when they might have sunk from sight, Scott Clemmensen counsels caution. "Our toughest tests are ahead of us,"...

'O' YEAH! DEVIL WIN STREAK LIVES

SUNRISE, Fla. - Despite their plague of injuries, the Devils finished the first quarter of their season on track for their 10th 100-point season in 12 years, thanks to last night's dramatic overtime victory. For a team that managed 99 last year...

ELIAS, GIONTA ADD FIRE TO HOT DEVILS

SUNRISE, Fla. - There's something clutch in the timing of the revivals of the Devils' last two 40-goal scorers. Patrik Elias and Brian Gionta have been scoring again, when it's been needed most. The line of Elias and Gionta, centered by Sunday's...

ZUBRUS, DEVILS KEEP ON ROLLING

TAMPA - It came from nowhere, Dainius Zubrus' four-goal game that tied the team record. But so has the Devils' four-game winning streak. The more players they lose, the more games they win, or so it seems. After scoring two in the first 19 games...

ZUBRUS HAS 4 GOALS IN DEVILS' WIN

Dainius Zubrus tied a team record with four goals to help New Jersey win its season-high fourth straight game, 7-3 over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday. Zubrus, who entered with two goals this season, completed his four-goal effort in the third...

DEVILS GO ON A 'POWER' TRIP

TAMPA - For the first 18 games it was hard to tell which was worse, the Devils' power play or penalty killing. They hope they've started fixing both. The Devils seek their longest winning streak of the season, four games, when they visit the...

HOLIK IS TURNING THE PAGE

Bobby Holik couldn't skate and couldn't exercise, so the Devils center became a bookworm while recovering from surgery to repair his shattered pinkie. "You have to expose your mind to things that maybe aren't your regular choices," Holik said. "The...

AILING DEVS PUT A HURT ON ISLES

From the plague's onset, the Devils insisted they wouldn't use their injuries as an excuse. Lately, they're acting as if they're irrelevant. "Who's in the lineup, who's not in here, it doesn't matter," Zach Parise said after piling up three...

CLEMMY HELPS DEVS FEEL RIGHT AT HOME

It was almost as though they were playing in front of Martin Brodeur. For the first time since their franchise goalie went down, the Devils won Devils style. Visiting dignitaries complained of ennui, the visiting team left Newark pointless, and...

ROLSTON'S RETURN REMAINS A MYSTERY

It will be five weeks tonight since Brian Rolston launched this plague of Devils injuries by spraining - badly, he says - his right ankle against the corner boards in Atlanta. The Devils' No. 1 center and biggest-ever free-agent acquisition still...

ROLSTON'S RETURN REMAINS A MYSTERY

It will be five weeks tonight since Brian Rolston launched this plague of Devils injuries by spraining - badly, he says - his right ankle against the corner boards in Atlanta. The Devils' No. 1 center and biggest-ever free-agent acquisition still...

SOFT FOES UP AHEAD FOR DEVS

After Devils practice yesterday, head coach Brent Sutter warned not to go overboard regarding Saturday's skid-stopping win over the Capitals. "It's always nice to win," he said. "And yet at the same time, I think it was important this week that we...

RECOVERING HOLIK TAKING IT SLOW

Bobby Holik's broken right pinkie finger couldn't have handled anything more. The injured Devils center had a positive development yesterday, when the pins and cast were removed from his pinkie. But Holik, who's been out since Oct. 18, also...

DEVILS' OFFENSE IS 'D' PROBLEM

Devil "D" just doesn't do it these days. If their goaltending is only as good - or not - as their opponents, then they can't play to that former strength any longer. They'll have to score plenty without Martin Brodeur, and that's why, if they're...

CLEMM COMES UP BIG FOR DEVILS IN SHOOTOUT

The Devils needed someone, anyone, to do something, anything, decisive after all the evening's see-sawing, after all their recent losing. The unlikely hero was their Refugee from Lowell goalie, whose gambling shootout pokecheck ended their...

LAMORIELLO SHOULD FIND NEW HOME FOR ELIAS

NO PLAYER in the NHL has suffered a steeper de cline in his game over the past three years than Patrik Elias, not so long ago one of the league's elite forwards, but now simply a pedestrian performer whose deterioration has undermined the Devils as...

N.J. LOSES FOURTH STRAIGHT

WASHINGTON - Even if other GMs are peddling, Lou Lamoriello insists he isn't dealing for a top goalie to hold the fort while Martin Brodeur is out. It wasn't goaltending that cost the Devils last night as they fell to 1-5 in Brodeur's absence from...

'C' IS FOR JAMIE

WASHINGTON - It's the injuries, really it is, even though the skidding Devils gallantly refuse to identify reality. So the Devils' captain has become Jamie Lightningrod, the magnet for outside blame and frustration piled on this team crippled by...

‘C’ IS FOR JAMIE

WASHINGTON – It’s the injuries, really it is, even though the skidding Devils gallantly refuse to identify reality. So the Devils’ captain has become Jamie Lightningrod, the magnet for outside blame and frustration piled on this team crippled by missing up to seven regulars nightly, including their franchise goalie, No. 1 center and No. 1...