Senators rally vs. Pens, win in shootout
OTTAWA -- The Ottawa Senators rallied from a deficit and earned a 2-1 shootout win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night at Canadian Tire Centre.
Mike Hoffman scored in regulation for the Senators, and Kyle Turris and Bobby Ryan scored in the shootout. Mike Condon made 34 saves to help the Senators pull to within a point of the Montreal Canadiens for first place in the Atlantic Division.
The Senators play the Canadiens at Bell Centre on Saturday.
The injury-ravaged Pittsburgh Penguins had a three-game winning streak end and fell three points behind the Washington Capitals for first place in the Metropolitan Division.
Hoffman scored at 9:43 of the third period on the power play to tie the game 1-1. Hoffman's rising wrist shot beat Murray high to the stick side.
Nick Bonino scored a power-play goal at 9:21 of the second period, and Matt Murray made 29 saves for the Penguins.
Murray made a couple of big saves when the game was scoreless. He got his left pad on a hard, low shot by Ottawa forward Alexandre Burrows at 4:27 of the first period and made a glove save from a sitting position on a hard shot by Ryan Dzingel from the slot at 7:30.
Senators defenseman Marc Methot left the game with a grotesquely bloody finger after he was slashed on the left hand by Pittsburgh center Sidney Crosby in the first period.
NOTES: With C Jake Guentzel out with a concussion after taking that hit from Buffalo Sabres D Rasmus Ristolainen on Tuesday, the Penguins called up RW Josh Archibald from AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. ... Guentzel joined RW Bryan Rust (upper body), D Olli Maatta (hand), D Trevor Daley (knee), D Kris Letang (upper body), LW Carl Hagelin (lower body), D Ron Hainsey (upper body), C Evgeni Malkin (shoulder) and LW Tom Sestito (upper body) on the injured list. ... Senators RW Mark Stone missed his seventh game with a lower-body injury, but took part in the morning skate and said he's hoping to play Saturday in the Senators big first-place showdown with the Canadiens in Montreal.