OTTAWA (AP)—Alex Kovalev(notes) scored twice and added an assist, combining with Erik Karlsson(notes) for the fastest two goals in Ottawa history to lead the Senators past the Phoenix Coyotes 5-2 on Tuesday night.
Karlsson and Kovalev scored 9 seconds apart in the first period to break the previous team record by 1 second. Karlsson opened the scoring with a power-play goal 5:27 in. His goal was still being announced when Kovalev made it 2-0 at 5:36, breaking a modern franchise record set 15 years earlier.
Martin Straka(notes) and Antii Tormanen scored 10 seconds apart in the second period of a 4-2 win over Calgary at the Ottawa Civic Centre on Oct. 19, 1995.
Kovalev added his second goal in the third and got his third point of the game with an assist on Daniel Alfredsson's(notes) goal during a two-man advantage late in the period.
Chris Kelly(notes) also scored and Brian Elliott(notes) made 28 saves for Ottawa, which has won two of three since a 1-4-1 start.
Sami Lepisto(notes) and Keith Yandle(notes) scored for Phoenix, which has lost three in a row (0-1-2), including the first two games of a three-game trip.
Jason LaBarbera(notes) made 17 saves in the first during his second start of the season. Ilya Bryzgalov(notes), who made 26 saves in a 3-2 overtime loss in Montreal, replaced LaBarbera to start the second. He stopped 14 shots in two periods.
Senators defenseman Sergei Gonchar(notes) played his 1,000th regular-season game. He assisted on Alfredsson's goal.
Coyotes captain Shane Doan(notes) was back in the lineup after serving a three-game suspension for his blindside hit on Anaheim's Dan Sexton(notes) on Oct. 17.
Outshot 20-8 while falling behind 3-0 in the first, Phoenix held an 11-5 margin in shots in the second.
Lepisto scored his first of the season 4:15 into the middle period and Yandle drew the Coyotes within 3-2 with his first goal at 6:58 of the third.
Kovalev restored Ottawa's two-goal lead 48 seconds later when he beat Bryzgalov.
Karlsson put Mike Fisher's(notes) rebound into the right side with Doan off for slashing. Kovalev then got his first of the season.
Nick Foligno(notes), who assisted on Kovalev's first goal, put a backhand off the left post midway through the first before Kelly made it 3-0 with his second of the season at 14:45.
NOTES: LaBarbera's only other appearance this season was a 32-save effort in a 3-2 loss in Anaheim on Oct. 17. … Gonchar received his NHL milestone award from Jim Gregory, the league's senior vice president of hockey operations, in a pregame ceremony. The veteran Russian defenseman has 688 points, including 202 goals, with Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh and Ottawa.
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