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KANATA, Ontario (AP) -- For two periods, the Ottawa Senators came
at Pittsburgh full speed. In the end, though, it was the Penguins
who had the jump.
Martin Straka scored with 22 seconds left in regulation to lift
the Penguins to a 3-3 tie Thursday night with the Senators.
|  | | Ottawa's Alexei Yashin, center, scored his third goal of the season Thursday night. |
Straka took a pass from Jaromir Jagr, after a failed clearing
attempt by the Senators, and beat goalie Jani Hurme to complete the
Penguins' comeback from a three-goal, third-period deficit.
Jagr and Alexei Kovalev also scored for Pittsburgh.
Rookie Martin Havlat, Magnus Arvedson and Alexei Yashin scored
for Ottawa, which had its four-game winning streak stopped. The
Senators (4-0-2) managed to set a franchise record for best start
to a season, beating last year's mark of 4-1-1.
Radek Bonk and Marian Hossa each had a pair of assists for the
Senators.
"We played 2½ good periods, we made some mistakes and it cost
us a point," said Shawn McEachern, who was serving a penalty when
Kovalev cut Ottawa's lead to 3-1 at 2:26 of the third. "Hopefully,
it will refocus us for the next game. The games at the beginning of
the season are big, too."
Jagr, who cut the lead to 3-2 at 12:31, stopped a clearing
attempt by Senators defenseman Sami Salo and fed a wide-open Straka
for the tying goal at 19:38.
"Nobody was on me, the goalie didn't even have his stick,"
Straka said. "I was surprised nobody was covering me. For 40
minutes, they were a better team, giving us a lesson ... go to the
net, shoot the puck."
Kovalev also had an assist and Penguins goalie Garth Snow,
making his first start of the season since being signed Oct. 10,
made 31 saves.
Hurme finished with 21 saves.
Ottawa appeared to be on its way to its fifth straight victory,
taking a three-goal lead and outshooting Pittsburgh 25-13 through
the first two periods.
Havlat opened the scoring with a power-play goal 9:26 in and
Arvedson made it 2-0 just over two minutes later, taking a drop
pass from Hossa and firing a wrist shot through Snow's pads.
The Senators dominated play in the first, outshooting the
Penguins 15-4.
Yashin made it 3-0 midway through the second after picking up a
loose puck and beating Snow for his third goal of the season.
"We should have won it," Bonk said. "If we play like we did
in the third period, we're not going to win many games. We stopped
working. We let it slip away. We're still undefeated, that's the
positive thing."
Ottawa went 1-for-7 with the man advantage; Pittsburgh 1-for-5.
Game notes
Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson was a late scratch with a
right hip flexor injury. In Alfredsson's absence, McEachern assumed
the captaincy. ... Hossa (two goals, 10 assists) and Yashin (three
goals, four assists) extended their point-scoring streaks to six
games. ... Straka (three goals, three assists) and Robert Lang
(three goals, five assists) increased their point-scoring streak to
five games. ... Jagr has five goals in his last three games.
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Montreal 3
Philadelphia 3
Washington 5
New Jersey 2
Nashville 2
Detroit 1
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Edmonton 1
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