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Sunday, October 30, 2011

{allcanada} Senators beat Maple Leafs for sixth straight win

OTTAWA (AP)—Colin Greening (notes) and Chris Neil (notes) scored power-play goals and the Ottawa Senators extended their winning streak to six with a 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday night.

Kaspars Daugavins (notes) scored his first NHL goal to put Ottawa up 3-1 in the third. Robin Lehner (notes) stopped 22 shots in his season debut for the Senators, who moved two games over .500 at 7-5-0 after winning only one of their first six.

Ottawa is on its best run since March 22-April 1, 2010, when it also put together a six-game winning streak.

Clarke MacArthur (notes) scored his second goal of the game midway through the third to draw Toronto within one.

Jonas Gustavsson (notes) made 27 saves in his fourth straight start for the Maple Leafs, who had won two in a row.

Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson (notes) did not play after he was injured in Saturday's 5-4 shootout win in New York. Alfredsson had to be helped off the ice after taking a hit to head from the Rangers' Wojtek Wolski (notes), who was given a minor penalty on the play.

Ottawa's Zack Smith (notes) stripped the puck off Matthew Lombardi (notes) to set up the Senators' third goal 7:08 into the third. Daugavins beat Gustavsson with a shot from the right side to make it a two-goal lead. Linemate Bobby Butler (notes) went to the left boards to pick up the milestone puck on his behalf before joining the goal celebration.

MacArthur, who opened the scoring with a power-play goal 11:20 in, drew Toronto within one with his second of the game at 9:07. Linemates Mikhail Grabovski (notes) and Nikolai Kulemin (notes) assisted on both goals.

Greening tied it at 1-all with a power-play goal 16:16 into the first. Senators defenseman David Rundblad (notes) fed a long pass up the middle to Greening, who drove in on a breakaway and fired a shot past Gustavsson with 4 seconds left in a penalty to Toronto's Carl Gunnarsson (notes).

Chris Neil put Ottawa ahead 2-1 on a power play 7:59 into the second when he deflected Erik Karlsson's (notes) point shot past Gustavsson for his third of the season.

NOTES: Lehner was recalled from Binghamton of the AHL on Saturday. The 20-year-old Swede was 1-4-0 in eight games with Ottawa last season. … LW Nikita Filatov (notes) played his third game for Ottawa after he was recalled from AHL Binghamton earlier in the day. … Butler returned after missing seven games because of a groin injury.