OTTAWA — Displaying fresh stitches and carrying ice bags to soothe their wounds, the Devils headed for a resort outside of Tampa, Fla., immediately after Monday night’s battle with the Ottawa Senators.

A medical center might have been more appropriate.

With captain Bryce Salvador suffering a lower body injury and center Stephen Gionta going down with an upper body issue, the Devils somehow pulled together and picked up a point in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Senators at Scotiabank Place.

Both Salvador and Gionta were to accompany the team on the overnight flight to Florida, but coach Pete DeBoer said the team did not know the severity of either injury until the players are further examined by doctors.

"This is too bad. A lot of guys are getting hurt or getting banged up," said goalie Martin Brodeur. "It’s just a product of the type of season we’re going through. A lot of teams have to go through it. Early on we weren’t too bad and now we’re getting hit pretty hard."

The Devils played their first game of the season without Ilya Kovalchuk, who is likely to be sidelined for close to a month with a right shoulder injury.

After a slow start, they dominated the game and came from behind twice on goals from Andrei Loktionov at 15:13 of the second period and defenseman Marek Zidlicky at 6:05 of the third. They outshot Ottawa, 34-14.

"(It was a) good point. We worked really hard. We deserved a lot better," Brodeur said. "We had some great chances to score. A few missed calls. (David Clarkson) is getting stitched. That would’ve been a four-minute power play in overtime. These are some of the bounces you get in a game like that. They won a skills competition again, two games in a row against us."

Clarkson needed two stitches below the right eye after being high-sticked on his first shift of overtime. The injury, along with the fact he broke his skate on the same play, prevented the right winger from participating in the rest of the game.

"I’m not sure who did it. It was on my first shift in overtime. I was done," Clarkson said. "And I broke my skate. I thought about putting on my shoes."

The Devils came close to winning it in OT. Senators goalie Ben Bishop stopped Steve Bernier’s shot and the rebound hopped over Adam Henrique’s stick as he looked at the open right side of the net with four seconds left.

"I thought I swung at it. Oh, my gosh," Henrique said. "My eyes lit up. I guess it wasn’t meant to be."

Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson scored first in the shootout before Travis Zajac tied it as the Devils’ third shooter. But Mika Zibanejad beat Brodeur before Loktionov was stopped to end the game.

The seventh-place Devils are now 2-5 in shootouts this season.

"We deserved better," Patrik Elias said. "We had chances. I thought that was one of our best games in a while."

As they wait to find out whether Salavdor or Gionta will miss time, the Devils looked on the bright side.

"That was a gutty effort by us. I don’t look at any points as disappointing," DeBoer said. "Tough building. I thought our guys played their hearts out and deserved better, but we’ll take the point and keep moving here."