Devils 4

Sabres 1

His Devils ran rampant again, now chasing records in an unbeaten November. Still, Pat Burns fumed.

“We were playing the right way and then we started to change things around,” the Devils coach complained after last night’s 4-1 romp over the Sabres at the Meadowlands. “That’s human nature. We feel like we’re going to get away with little things and we started cheating and doing little things.

“But if we do that against the good teams, the real powerful offensive teams, they’re going to stick it right up your [nose].”

The Devils stretched their unbeaten (8-0-2) streak to 10, and should they extend it against the visiting Penguins tomorrow, they’ll go a month without losing. More dominating, commanding, convincing as they romp along, they are threatening their team record 13-game unbeaten streak of 2000-01.

They’ve allowed two goals total in their last three games, and five in six, and their offense is coming, too, outscoring their last two foes 9-1.

Yet Burns wasn’t nearly satisfied after the Devils put it on cruise control, outshot 9-3 in the third when a second straight shutout vanished.

“I’m not ripping the team,” Burns said. “I’m talking about human nature. On a streak like this, coaches get nervous. Every single game we play is scary. I want to win every single game. I’m selfish.”

The Devils didn’t seem insulted at Burns’ critique.

“He just doesn’t want anyone to get complacent. Nothing wrong in that,” Scott Stevens said.

The Devils might have something to be self-satisfied about. They’re unbeaten in their last seven (6-0-1) at home, after opening the season winless in four at the Meadowlands, their longest home winless start in 20 years. After tomorrow, they resume play in Los Angeles on Nov. 25, and they haven’t lost since Oct. 25, when they fell to Boston.

The formula was similar to Saturday’s 5-0 dismantling of the Rangers. They scored early and began building momentum, ripping the game apart in the first half of the second. Scott Gomez was credited with opening the scoring 9:40 into play with his second, his tip of Stevens’ point shot adjudged to have been below crossbar level.

Jay Pandolfo ran his goal streak to a career-high-tying three games with a shorthander at 5:11 of the second, shoving his own rebound under Martin Biron after being set up 2-on-1 by John Madden. Brian Gionta put the game out of reach at 6:56 with his fourth, converting his own rebound from a left-wing-rush slap.

Sabres coach Lindy Ruff called timeout, only to see Madden convert Christian Berglund’s 2-on-0 pass 2:29 later. Biron was relieved by Mika Noronen at that point after yielding four on 19 shots in 29:25.

Daniel Briere spoiled Martin Brodeur’s bid for a second straight shutout at 6:13 of the third, coming from behind the net as Stevens watched, chipping a backhand around the post.

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Stevens tied John MacLean with 934 games as a Devil for No. 2 all-time behind Ken Daneyko’s 1,283 . . . Devils recalled Scott Clemmensen from Albany on an emergency basis last night, replacing Corey Schwab (groin) as Brodeur’s backup.