In Ottawa, Alex DeBrincat had a goal in regulation and hit for the only marker in the skills competition to give the Senators a 3-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins on Tuesday. 
Cam Talbot made 49 saves in the Senators, he made 26 saves in the third period.
“Honestly, I can’t really describe it,” Talbot said. “You’re just focused in on that puck, trying to do whatever you can to get your body or whatever in front of it. That’s all I was trying to do.
“I feel I left a few too many rebounds out there and gave them a few too many second chances, but more often than not we were able to clear those out. A great job by our guys battling tonight.”
Boston’s Pavel Zacha scored with less than four minutes to go in regulation to force an extra session which solved nothing.
“A lot of guys have talked to me,” Zacha said. “They value what I do on the ice, creating chances, creating scoring chances for other players. The way we’re playing as a team, it helps you mentally and physically, especially when you can talk to the players like that, it’s great.”
Ottawa improved to 15-16-3.
Tim Stutzle also scored for the Senators, his goal came at 8:41 of the first period for a 1-0 lead on the power play.
“I think we worked really hard, but without [Talbot], I don’t think it would have been possible,” Stutzle said. “He kept us in the game the whole time. They had a lot of chances, but he was there when he had to be.”
Less than two minutes later, Jake DeBrusk tied the game, 1-1.
At 13:37, DeBrincat pushed the Sena back into the lead at 2-1.
“I thought one of our best players tonight, on both sides of the puck, was DeBrincat,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said. “I just thought he had the puck everywhere. He made that shootout goal look easy. He did a lot of good things.”
Boston dropped to 27-4-3.
“It seemed like we were giving Cam all he could handle,” DeBrusk said. “Give him a lot of credit. I used to skate with Cam in the summers when he was in Edmonton, so I have a lot of respect for him. It [stinks] that we couldn’t get the two points, but it was a barrage of shots. We gave it our best shot. Give credit where credit’s due.”
Jeremy Swayman made 31 saves in the Bruins loss.
“Hats off to Talbot,” Swayman said. “That was a fun goalie battle.”
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