Brodeur Leads Devils Past Rangers, 1-0 The starting lineups for Tuesday night's game at Madison Square Garden included the fourth-line tough guys Cam Janssen and Eric Boulton for the Devils and Mike Rupp and Brandon Prust for the Rangers, who had 104 career goals and 3,215 penalty minutes among them. As if choreographed, it took two seconds for the four players to drop their gloves, Janssen facing Rupp, Boulton taking on Prust. The pairs pounded each other for a while, setting the stage for the Devils to post a taut and physical 1-0 victory behind goaltender Martin Brodeur. Brodeur stopped 30 shots for the 117th shutout of his career, but his first this season. The Devils (31-19-3) won their fifth straight game, which included a 4-3 shootout win over the Rangers on Jan. 31 in Newark. The Rangers (33-13-5) had won four of their previous five games. Rangers forward Artem Anisimov scored what appeared to be the tying goal on a rebound with 3.5 seconds left, but Brodeur had been bowled over by Rangers forward Marian Gaborik just before Anisimov's shot. Gaborik was penalized for goaltender interference. The shutout was the first for Brodeur against the Rangers since he stopped 51 shots in a 1-0 shootout victory on Jan. 12, 2010. He had not beaten Henrik Lundqvist in a head-to-head matchup since Feb. 3, 2011, when the Devils defeated the Rangers, 3-2. The game-opening side-by-side fights came a week after the Devils beat the Rangers at Prudential Center. Boulton was not penalized for slashing Rupp that night, but the N.H.L. fined him $2,500 a day later. The Devils appeared to be prepared Tuesday. Janssen had been a healthy scratch for 9 of the previous 12 games, and his statistics this season included an assist and 55 penalty minutes in 36 games. Boulton had no goals or assists and 64 penalty minutes in 30 games. Neither of the fights was decisive, but the Devils got a bigger jolt, taking the first five shots and flustering the Rangers when they moved into the Devils" zone. Then Rangers defenseman Stu Bickel was penalized for holding David Clarkson at 7 minutes 24 seconds. The Devils needed less than a minute to score their seventh power-play goal in six games. Patrik Elias corralled the puck in the corner to the right of Lundqvist and tapped a pass to Zach Parise, just behind the goal line. Clarkson broke loose from Ryan Callahan in the slot, took a crisp pass from Parise and knocked a shot over Lundqvist's left shoulder at 8:14. It was Clarkson's 21st goal of the season and his 7th on a power play. The Devils killed penalties on Kurtis Foster and Petr Sykora later in the period, though the Rangers, with two power-play goals in 18 games, made Brodeur flop around in the crease at the end of the second man-advantage opportunity. Then Rangers defenseman Michael Del Zotto took a tripping penalty with 1:31 to go in the first period. A slap shot from Sykora sped through a tangle of players and hit the crossbar behind Lundqvist, ringing the iron and drawing oohs from the crowd. Near the midway point of the second period, Rangers forward Brandon Dubinsky stormed into the Devils" zone and shoveled the puck to Prust, skating alone on the left wing. Prust knocked the puck toward an open side of the goal but the shot went wide left. Clarkson missed tipping the puck past Lundqvist less than a minute later, and Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman received a holding-the-stick penalty after that. But the Devils did not score on that power play, then gave up a scoring chance to Gaborik. Gaborik blocked a shot from the point by Devils defenseman Andy Greene, hauled in the puck and took off. Brodeur made a pad save. In the final seconds of the period, Brodeur made another pad save, on Carl Hagelin. The Rangers continued to press the Devils in the opening minutes of the third period, taking the first three shots and forcing Devils Coach Peter DeBoer to use his timeout less than four minutes in. The Devils appeared content to sweep rebounds away from Brodeur. The crowd roared when Devils defenseman Bryce Salvador received an interference penalty after tangling with the speedy Hagelin at the Devils" blue line with 8:10 left in the third period. But the Devils adeptly killed that penalty, too.