If the New Jersey Devils are going to make a run at the playoffs, they are going to have to win games in which they don't play well.
That is just what they did against the reeling Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night.
Jacob Josefson and Patrik Elias scored in the shootout, Cory Schneider made 29 saves through overtime, and the Devils rallied late to beat Toronto 2-1, extending the Maple Leafs' losing streak to a season-high seven games.
"Any win is a good win for us at this point," Elias said. "It wasn't an easy game coming of the (All-Star) break. We just didn't have it going. Schneids kept us in there for the first two, and we found a way to tie it up after they scored."
That's the kind of play the Devils are going to need to make up a 13-point deficit in the Eastern Conference wild-card race. They are 5-2-1 in their last eight games, and this win came with an unexpected seeing-eye goal from defenceman Adam Larsson with 2:50 left in regulation off a nice pass by Martin Havlat.
"I didn't see it," said Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier, who made 22 saves. "It was a good shot. Those are the ones you have to (stop)."
Larsson smiled sheepishly when asked if he was shooting for the corner of the net on his second goal of the season and fifth of his career.
"I was just trying to get the shot past the first layer of players," he said.
The goal wiped out the advantage Toronto had built minutes earlier on James van Riemsdyk's breakaway tally.
The shootout win was the Devils' third in nine this season.
Bernier made a pad save on Scott Gomez on the Devils' first shootout attempt, but Josefson and Elias beat him with backhanders on the next two tries.
Mike Santorelli missed the net on Toronto's first attempt, and Schneider stopped Tyler Bozak on the second.
"We had plenty of chances," Toronto interim coach Peter Horachek said. "We didn't capitalize on our opportunities."
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