Devils end Pens’ 7-game win streak

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nicklas Bergfors, Travis Zajac and Zach Parise each had a goal and an assist and the New Jersey Devils snapped the Pittsburgh Penguins’ winning streak at seven with a 4-1 victory Saturday night.

Mark Fraser added his first career goal, and Martin Brodeur made 32 saves for the Devils, 5-0 on the road for the first time in team history.

Alex Goligoski scored for the defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins (9-2-0), who lost for the first time all season when Marc-Andre Fleury started a game.

The Penguins trailed 2-0 heading into the third period at home for the second consecutive night.

They came back to beat Florida 3-2 in a shootout Friday, but only 26 seconds into the third, Zajac made it 3-0 when he flipped a rebound of Parise’s shot into an open net for his fifth of the season.

Brodeur was 10:22 away from his 103rd career shutout — which would have tied Terry Sawchuk’s NHL record — until defenseman Goligoski converted a rebound of Pascal Dupuis’ shot for his third of the season.

New Jersey did not have a shot on goal for almost 10 minutes to start the game, but Fraser’s second shot of his eight-game career gave the Devils a 1-0 lead.

Fraser, who was on injured reserve since mid-September as the result of a head injury that occurred in a fight during a preseason game, threw an innocent-looking wrist shot on net from the left-wing circle 9:50 into the game that Fleury couldn’t handle and ultimately inadvertently batted back into his own net with his glove.

Bergfors made it 2-0 with a power-play goal, his second of the season and third of his career, with 5:29 left in the second.

Bergfors took the initial shot while he skated down the left wing, circled behind the net and smacked in a loose puck that had gotten behind Fleury in the crease.

Parise added a goal with 3:28 to play to make it 4-1.

Fleury began the season 8-0 and hadn’t allowed more than two goals in all but two of his previous starts.

Devils LW Jay Pandolfo left the game after being boarded by Penguins LW Mike Rupp, a Devil last season, 13 minutes into the second. Pandolfo did not return.

New Jersey D Paul Martin also went to the locker room for an undisclosed injury with about 6 minutes to play. He also did not return.

Goligoski has a career-high five-game points streak.

Brodeur has 563 career wins.