EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- After weeks firing one bad shot after another, Patrik Elias suddenly can't miss. Even the ones he misses, go in.

Elias had two goals and an assist and the New Jersey Devils kept up their home-ice dominance over the Philadelphia Flyers with a 3-2 victory on Wednesday night.

	New Jersey's Patrik Elias burned John Vanbiesbrouck and the Flyers for two goals.

The goals gave Elias five in the last five games, an outburst that was preceded by a 12-game drought.

"Like I said, those 12 games I felt really good about my game," Elias said. "I had a lot of chances, I guess I just wasn't focusing enough. A couple of lucky bounces and it's going in. I hope I keep it going."

The game winner was one of those lucky bounces. A cross-ice pass from Petr Sykora on a power play bounced off him past John Vanbiesbrouck at 7:30 of the third period.

"He sent the pass low and I tried to whack at it," Elias said. "It went off the top of my stick and then bounced off my leg and in."

The Flyers protested, and the play was reviewed, but Elias' sixth goal of the season stood.

Jason Arnott had a goal and Sykora tied his career high with three assists as the Devils improved to 21-5-2 against the Flyers at the Continental Airlines Arena this decade. New Jersey is 2-0 this season and 6-0-1 in the last seven here.

John LeClair scored a goal and set up another by Keith Jones in a 30-second span in the second period to wipe out a 2-0 deficit, but Elias got the game winner just nine seconds after Rod Brind'Amour was sent to the penalty box.

"The difference was their power play," Vanbiesbrouck said. "They executed their power play and we didn't execute against it. Roger (Neilson) came in before the game and said that would be the difference, the speciality team. It sure was."

Brind'Amour played for the first time this season, after missing Philadelphia's first 34 games with a broken foot. The injury ended Brind'Amour's streak of 484 consecutive games.

Philadelphia had a couple of chances in the closing seconds but Jones had a pass by Eric Lindros bounce over his stick in front and defenseman Eric Desjardins then missed an open net seconds later.

Jones tied the game at 14:20 of the second period, putting in the rebound of a break-in by LeClair.

LeClair got the Flyers back in the game 30 seconds earlier by backhanding the rebound of a Simon Gagne shot out of the air past Martin Brodeur, who finished with 23 saves. It was his 19th goal of the season.

Sykora made a great cross-ice pass to send Elias in alone on Vanbiesbrouck and the left wing slid the puck between the goalie's legs at 14:24 of the opening period.

Arnott got his ninth of the season by sneaking in from the point and taking a great cross-ice pass from Elias at 6:03 of the second period.