Rookie Bradley Mills scored his first NHL goal with 3:51 left in the third period to snap a tie, and the team with the NHL’s worst record,the New Jersey Devils got past the Blackhawks 5-3 on Wednesday.Devils goalie Martin Brodeur left the game in the second period with a bruised his right elbow. X-rays were negative.With New Jersey leading 2-0 at 5:27 of the second period, the stick of Troy Brouwer appeared to hit the area around Brodeur’s blocker after he made a save on Patrick Kane.Brodeur removed the blocker, shook his arm and rotated his wrist as the trainer attended to him.Play then resumed, but Brodeur skated off the ice 21 seconds later following a stoppage in play. Brodeur finished with eight saves. He was replaced by Johan Hedberg, who stopped 21 of 24 shots.The Devils entered the game with seven points and moved out of last place in the league with the win. New Jersey played the final game of a six-game road trip, finishing 2-4-0.Mills, playing in his third NHL game for the injury-depleted Devils, put New Jersey ahead 3-2 when his attempt from the right side of the net struck the skate of Marty Turco and deflected in. Turco stopped 19 shots.Jamie Langenbrunner added an empty-net goal with 50 seconds left to make it 4-2. It stood up as the game-winner when Viktor Stalberg scored 16 seconds later to cut it to 4-3.New Jersey’s Andy Greene added another empty-netter with eight seconds left to complete the scoring.Jason Arnott and Travis Zajac also scored for the Devils, who ended a two-game losing streak and won for only the second time in seven games.Brian Campbell and Fernando Pisani each scored their first goals of the season for the Hawks, who dropped their second straight.The Devils played their second game without star forward Zach Parise, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Tuesday to repair a torn meniscus and is expected to miss three months.Entering the game, the Devils’ injury list included seven players. Besides Parise, three others — forwards Jacob Josefson and Brian Rolston, and defenseman Mark Fraser — are recovering from surgery.Arnott scored the only goal in the first period at 15:31. Dainius Zubrus forced Campbell to turn the puck over behind the net and Patrik Elias sent it quickly to Arnott, who beat Turco from the slot.Zajac made it 2-0 at 4:14 of the second, capitalizing on another turnover.Duncan Keith couldn’t control the puck at the low edge of the left circle. The puck popped out to Zajac, who whipped in a shot from in front.Campbell cut it to 2-1 with 3:58 left in the second. His centering pass from the left corner was intended for Pisani, but deflected past Hedberg off the stick of New Jersey defenseman Colin White.Pisani tied it at 2 on a power play at 3:42 of the third period.After Hedberg made a pad save on Stalberg’s shot, Pisani tucked the rebound just inside the right post.

NOTES—Marty Hossa missed his fourth game with a shoulder injury. He’s expected to miss another week…..Dave Bolland missed his third game with an upper-body injury. … Also out for New Jersey: D Matthew Corrente (hand), D Anton Volchenkov (stiff neck) and D Bryce Salvador (concussion).