New Jersey Devils' Jaromir Jagr, of Czech Republic, celebrates his unassisted empty-net goal with Andy Greene, left, and Travis Zajac, right, during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The Devils won 4-1.

NEWARK, N.J. — Jaromir Jagr and Martin Brodeur still know how to make the key plays that lead to wins.

And the New Jersey Devils are thankful for that.

“Our older guys were great,” Devils coach Pete DeBoer said after Jagr scored two goals and Brodeur made 27 saves to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.

“I don’t know what kind of statement we can really make,” Brodeur said of he and Jagr contributing to the Devils.

“It’s kind of nice. I think it goes a long way when you enjoy the game of hockey. At our age, if we didn’t do that, it would be really, really hard to play this game.

“And me and (Jagr), everyone can tell you we love being around here.”

Andy Greene and Adam Larsson also scored for New Jersey, which has won three of its past five.

“It’s big for us,” Brodeur said. “We’re looking to get back to .500 and from there, let’s go forward. We’re not there yet.”

Chris Kunitz scored for Pittsburgh. The Penguins have lost four of six. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 18 of 21 shots.

“We’ve been in tight games, one-goal games,” Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said. “We haven’t been able to win them. That’s a common theme.”

Jagr’s first goal of the third period put the Devils up 3-1 at 14:06. Dainius Zubrus forced and recovered Kris Letang’s offensive zone turnover before setting up Jagr for his sixth of the season. Jagr added an empty netter at 18:43.

“He wasn’t the weakest link on our line,” Jagr joked when asked about Zubrus. “He was good.”

Despite being outshot 10-3 in the first period, it was the Devils who went into the first intermission with a 1-0 lead. Greene’s second of the season opened the scoring with 18.4 seconds left in the period.