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Jacques irked after Devils fall to Canucks, 5-2

November is done, and so is the Devils’ six-game month of home perfection. Jacques Lemaire says December’s 0-1 Devils will skate, skate and skate some more today after last night’s flop.

“They need a good practice. We’ve been taking it easy on them, thinking they might be getting tired. Christmas is coming, everybody’s mind is somewhere else. We’ll try to put their minds back on the game,” Lemaire said after last night’s 5-2 loss to the Canucks in Newark.

Giving up a handful for only the third time this season, the Devils allowed the first three in the first 12:32 of play and never caught up, losing in Newark for the first time since Oct. 28.

“They played well, we didn’t, and that makes an ugly outcome,” Andy Greene said after the loss snapped New Jersey’s three-game overall winning streak.

The Devils fell behind 3-0 for the first time since losing 5-2 in their season opener to the Flyers Oct. 3 in Newark. They hadn’t allowed three goals in an entire game in Newark since that Oct. 28 4-1 loss to the Sabres, and the night’s five were most of the six-victory home streak’s total of eight goals allowed.

Alexandre Burrows started the Canucks’ spree 6:33 into play when he bunted Daniel Sedin’s turn-around floater off Martin Brodeur’s glove. Sami Salo followed with his first in 40 games at 10:03. Daniel Sedin made it three on seven shots at 12:32, firing between Brodeur’s legs on his rush to the left circle. That should have been enough, and actually, it was.

“We just weren’t ready to play the game, and that’s been a common theme,” said Zach Parise, whose career-high 10-game point streak came to an end.

New Jersey made a game of it late in the first. Niclas Bergfors started the Devils back with a 4-on-4 goal at 16:05. Travis Zajac pulled the Devils within one with 6.0 seconds left in the first.

But New Jersey was unable to square matters over the next 21:41, and Vancouver reopened a two-goal lead 1:36 into the third on Alexander Edler’s second of the year. Jannik Hansen made it 5-2 at 5:18, completing a 2-on-1.

“We’ve been the better team,” Patrik Elias said. “We should be dictating the game, especially in our [building], and we didn’t do that.”

So instead, Lemaire will be dictating the stops and starts today.

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Elias said he was more “scared than anything” when he did the splits locking skates with Ryan Kesler in the second. Elias, who underwent groin and hernia surgical repair in September, said he was quickly loosenend up in the locker room, and returned to play within two minutes.

mark.everson@nypost.com