EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- The way things have been going for Patrik Elias and Petr Sykora, it wasn't surprising veterans Ray Bourque and Don Sweeney collided to set up the New Jersey Devils' two-on-none game-winning breakaway in overtime.

It also wasn't surprising from a Boston Bruins standpoint, either.

	New Jersey's Randy McKay shakes off Boston's Hal Gill during the first period Wednesday night.

Elias cashed in on the mishap for his second goal of the game at 19 seconds of overtime to give the Devils a 5-4 win over the struggling Bruins on Wednesday night.

"I don't know if I've seen a play like that in 10 years on my team," center Bobby Holik said after the Devils won their fifth straight game at home and extended the Bruins' winless streak to five games (0-4-1). "The defenseman are still trying to untie their skates."

Joe Murphy, who scored late to give Boston a 2-2 tie in its last game here, tied this one by scoring on a scramble in front with 2:11 to play. It was the third time the Bruins had rallied to knot the contest.

However, the Devils didn't take long to win playing four-on-four. Elias took a breakout pass from Scott Stevens and skated into the Bruins' zone and criss-crossed with Sykora, dropping a pass in the right circle. Sweeney and Bourque, who have a combined 33 years in the NHL, collided and fell.

That left Elias and Sykora alone against goaltender Byron Dafoe and he had no chance when Sykora slide the puck back to Elias for his eighth goal in nine games.

"You have more room four-on-four and Petr read my play pretty good," Elias said. "I just dropped it and we got lucky they collapsed."

But that's the way things have gone for the Bruins, who have two wins in 14 games (2-8-4).

"I wasn't going to go all the way over and he (Sweeney) thought I was going to cross over," said Bourque, who scored the Bruins first goal. "We kind of met and collided. It's just the way things have been going. We can't catch a break."

"Once you think you have seen it all, it happens," Boston coach Pat Burns added. "That was a basic play they do every day. If they hold their ground on the criss-cross someone is going to come to you."

Andre Savage and former Devils player Dave Andreychuk got the other goals for Boston.

Holik, Scott Gomez and Sykora also scored for New Jersey, which blew leads of 2-0, 3-2 and 4-3 in beating the Bruins for the first time in three games this season (1-1-1).

Gomez gave New Jersey a 3-2 lead with a power-play goal off the stick of Sweeney, but Andreychuk tied the game with a tap-in in front with Martin Brodeur out of position.

Sykora made it 4-3 with a shot from the right circle with 7:26 to play but Murphy forced the overtime with his third goal, with Brodeur again out of the net.

The Devils dominated the opening 14 minutes of play and took a 2-0 lead on goals by Elias and Holik. But as so often happened this season, having the lead seemed to put New Jersey to sleep, and the Bruins took advantage.

The big break came when Holik picked up an interference penalty with New Jersey on a power play.

Bourque scored on a power-play shot from the left point at 15:49 of the first period. Savage, recalled from Providence on Tuesday, tied the game with another power-play goal at 2:49 of the second.

Elias gave the Devils the lead at 5:36 of the first, taking a pass from behind the net by Jason Arnott and snapping a quick shot past Dafoe.

Holik took advantage of some sloppy play in the Boston end to beat Dafoe from the right circle for a 2-0 lead at 11:18.