David Clarkson sandwiched two goals (8 and 9 power play) around an Ilya Kovalchuk goal (4) for the Devils scores.
Johan Hedberg finished with 23 saves on the evening in a spot start.
The Devils return to action on Tuesday against Carolina..
Hell Raisers
1) Ilya Kovalchuk ripped a shot by Tomas Vokoun on a 2 on 1 with Adam Henrique,but the underrated play was by Stefan Matteau,who set the play up with a hustling takeaway from former Devil Paul Martin.
2) David Clarkson continues his lamp lighting with two more that were scored in different manners.
Clarkson fired one past Vokoun on a 2 on 1 breakaway and the other was chipped in off a Patrik Elias rebound.
The maturation of Clarkson's game has been fun to watch over the last two seasons....
3) Loved the play of Johan Hedberg,who has played well in each start.
Hedberg has done exactly what you hope that you get from your backup goalie-play well enough to give your team a chance to win.
4) Slow start for the Devils,who put only six shots on the board in a first period that saw the Devils on their heels for most of the period.
All of that and the defense managed to surf the wave to allow the Devils to keep from being overwhelmed early...
5) However,the second period might have been one of the best played thus far.
The Devils took the game to Pittsburgh and did not allow the Penguins to have any offensive flow at all in the period.
Looking at the total game,this was exceedingly well played and took the life right out of the Penguins.
6) One quarter of the season in the books-first place in not only the division,but in the conference!
I'll take it!
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