NHL PLAYOFFS Brodeur gives Devils another shutout, 1-0

New Jersey goalie Martin Brodeur posted his fourth shutout of the playoffs.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils took the NHL off the hook -- and put Ottawa on it.
Brodeur made 24 saves for his fourth shutout of the playoffs and Sergei Brylin scored the only goal the league deemed to count in a 1-0 victory Thursday night. The Devils lead the Eastern Conference finals 2-1, with Game 4 set for Saturday at the Meadowlands.
Game 3 will remembered for the goal the NHL missed with New Jersey leading 1-0 with 7:50 remaining in the first period.
Jay Pandolfo took a pass from Jamie Langenbrunner and slid a shot under Senators goalie Patrick Lalime.
"I could have sworn I saw it go through his legs," Pandolfo said.
A not-so-funny thing happened though.
No red light
Goal judge Paul McInnis didn't put on the red light.
Referee Kerry Fraser didn't signal a goal and the Devils didn't celebrate, other than Langenbrunner raising his stick briefly as he skated around the net.
"I guess I'll start celebrating every shot now," Langenbrunner said, laughing.
After replays officials didn't see anything on the first few replays, the game resumed with a hurry-up face-off.
Some 40 seconds later, the replay officials got an in-net camera view, which was their third option following the overhead net angle and television replays.
The angle showed the puck going in the net, hitting the roll inside it and bouncing back out quickly, ending up under Lalime.
The discovery came too late for the Devils. Because play had re-started, the error could not be corrected.
"In this case, it didn't effect the outcome of the game," said NHL executive vice president Colin Campbell in admitting the league erred on the play. "But we can't let it happen again."
Replay shown
To the Devils' credit, they didn't get caught up in the mistake that came to their attention in the final minutes of the period when the replay was shown on a big screen inside the arena.
Devils coach Pat Burns waved his arms in disgust after watching it.
However, the team's veterans took control between periods.
"We just said let's move on and forget about it," captain Scott Stevens said after New Jersey pushed its home record in the playoffs to 7-0. "Fortunately everything worked out and we won the game."
New Jersey moved within two games of reaching the Stanley Cup finals for the third time in four years by bottling up Ottawa's swift offense in the neutral zone.
The Senators had only 11 shots on goal in the first two periods in losing consecutive games for the first time in the playoffs.
When they finally got untracked in the third period and fired 13 shots on goal, Brodeur handled every one.