In Ottawa, the Los Angeles Kings had their point streak end at nine games in a 5-3 loss to the Senators Monday night.
Mike Hoffman had two goals for Ottawa and Mika Zibanejad, Kyle Turris and Erik Karlsson also scored for the Senators.
Craig Anderson stopped 33 in win over LA – file photo by Brent Clark
“The nice thing about playing 82 games is you don’t have much time to think about the last performance,” said goalie Craig Anderson (33 saves). “For us, coming home, it’s a good spot to have a refresh, recharge, kind of hit the reset button from that road trip.
“We’re all proud people. We get embarrassed. We don’t get to this level by not being proud of what we do and what we can accomplish. I think that drives a lot of guys to be proud of what we’ve done and continue to strive for.”
The win was much different from the lackluster effort in a 3-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens over the weekend.
“It’s the way I expect that team to play,” Sens coach Dave Cameron said. “You’re excited that it’s a bounce-back game and you’re excited they come back and responded against a real good team. It stokes a fire a little bit when you see how bad they were the other night, but you put that away.”
Jamie McBain, Tyler Toffoli and Jake Muzzin scored for the Kings.
“Four out of the five goals, if not all of them, came from our mistakes, and you just can’t do that,” Kings center Anze Kopitar said. “You can’t trade chances like that, not against a team like that where they have so many forwards with a lot of skill. It hurt us tonight.”
Jonathan Quick made 16 saves in the loss.
“We looked like a tired team,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. “It caught up with us a little bit. That’s the highest-scoring team we’ve played this year. We made some fatigue mistakes, and they buried them.”
LA is now 2-1-1 on their six-game road trip.
“We had faith in here. Go out and win the first 10, try to win the second 10,” said Muzzin, who scored his fourth goal midway through the third period to pull Los Angeles to within 4-3. “We actually score right on the 10-minute mark. We tried to push for the second one, and they got one late and that kind of hurt us a little bit.”
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