With just over three minutes left in regulation, the Senators; Tom Pyatt struck for a goal that gave Ottawa a 4-3 lead they would hold for a victory over the Maple Leafs Wednesday night in Toronto.
“To see that one go in felt good, and I haven’t scored in a while personally too, so that felt pretty good for me,” Pyatt said. “Everyone was having some fun out there tonight 
and Anderson was terrific. We gave up too many shots tonight, they could have had a couple more but Anderson was big for us. It’s just nice to get a win here, we’re making a little bit of progress the last couple weeks.”
Pyatt had been in a 20-game goal drought.
Thomas Chabot, Mike Hoffman and Gabriel Dumont also scored for the Sens.
“We stuck with it, that’s a high-octane offense over there and two-goal leads are not safe in this league against a lot of teams, especially them,” Matt Duchene (assisted on game-winning goal) said. “I don’t think it surprised us on the bench, obviously we wanted to keep the lead, but you never underestimate their offense.”
The win was a bounce back effort from the Sens who lost Tuesday night, 8-2, to the Chicago Blackhawks; a game that saw Craig Anderson given the hook early
Anderson made 45 saves to pick up the win Wednesday.
“You put it behind you as quickly as you can and by playing right away, we didn’t have time to think about it,” Anderson said. “We weren’t good last night and that was obvious but tonight was a complete 180, our guys were battling hard, making the right reads, making the right plays and definitely being a lot stronger in front of our net tonight.”
The Leafs’ goals came from Andreas Borgman, James van Riemsdyk and Morgan Rielly.
“It didn’t happen for us. We had lots of opportunity, obviously, but we got impatient,” Leafs head coach Mike Babcock said. “We had two pinches that cost us two goals and we were carrying play and had lots of opportunity as you know but, in the end, you’ve still got to play right. You make those mistakes and they capitalize.”
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Frederik Andersen made 28 saves i taking the loss.
“We had tons of chances, I think, all around. Their goalie made some pretty good saves. He stood on his head tonight. I think, all-in-all, we had a pretty solid game and obviously we made mistakes and they capitalized on them,” the Leafs’ Auston Matthews said after the loss.
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