Eight minutes into the second period, the Devils would finally break through. Simon Nemec activated down the right flank and fired a shot toward the net. It ricocheted back to him behind the net, and he made an Elias-ian pass to Ondrej Palat right in front, who scored to put the Devils ahead.

On Thursday, Cody Glass followed his New Jersey Devils teammate, Dennis Cholowski, onto the ice at Prudential Center at 6:29 p.m. to take warmups for the first time since suffering an upper-body injury on Oct.