OTTAWA, Ontario -- Jarome Iginla had two goals and an assist, Blake Comeau had a goal and an assist and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 on Thursday night to end a four-game losing streak.
Nathan MacKinnon also scored for the Avalanche, and Carl Soderberg and Tyson Barrie each had two assists. Semyon Varlamov made 26 saves.
Mark Stone and Mike Hoffman scored in the second period to cut Colorado's lead to 3-2. After Comeau had an empty-netter with 1:04 left in the third, Chris Neil scored with 26 seconds remaining, but Ottawa couldn't complete the comeback. Andrew Hammond made 23 saves for the Senators, and Dion Phaneuf had two assists in his first home game with Ottawa.
Iginla has 15 goals this season and has scored at least that many in 17 of his 20 NHL seasons. He has 604 goals and 1,257 points.
The first five goals came with the man advantage.
Iginla scored first when he put the puck past Hammond at 9:16 of the opening period. Hammond nearly made a spectacular arm save from his stomach on Iginla's shot, but the puck barely made its way across the goal line.
MacKinnon scored at 2:26 of the second period and Iginla scored again at 6:54.
MacKinnon scored on the rush, beating Hammond with a rising shot from the slot. Iginla followed that with a one-timer from the faceoff circle off a pass from Barrie, just 15 seconds after Erik Karlsson was sent off for interference.
The Senators rebounded to score a pair of power-play goals before the second period finished.
Karlsson and Phaneuf made a couple of passes along the blue line before Phaneuf's point shot was tipped in by Stone at 11:15, just 10 seconds after Cody McLeod was penalized for holding. Phaneuf's assist was his first point in a Senators uniform since he was traded from the Maple Leafs on Monday.
Karlsson and Phaneuf assisted again on Hoffman's one-timer past Varlamov at 19:52.
Game notes
Defenseman Chris Wideman was the lone scratch for the Senators while defensemen Nate Guenin and Zach Redmond were scratches for the Avalanche. ... Karlsson's two assists pulled him within four assists of tying Alexie Yashin for fourth place on the Senators career list. ... Ottawa plays the Blue Jackets in Columbus on Saturday night. The Avalanche visit Detroit on Friday night.
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