Hold off the parades in Toronto for now. On Saturday night, Thomas Chabot struck twice for the Ottawa Senators in a 5-3 win over the Maple Leafs.
Dylan DeMelo and Chris Tierney also scored for the Sens.
“Early there, they were coming pretty hard, and I think that goal settled us down a bit and got us back to our game,” DeMelo said. “Anytime you get a goal where you’re maybe not getting outplayed but the shot total is favoring them, I think it goes a long way for your confidence.”
Craig Anderson made 34 saves to pick up the win.
“It’s nice to beat anybody at this point. I think just getting that first win of the season here is big for us,” Anderson said. “We’re doing a lot of good things, we’re making some mistakes, but we’re playing hard through them, and that’s all you can ask for.
The Leafs’ came from Morgan Rielly, Auston Matthews and Mitchell Marner.
After the Senators took a 1-0 lead, the Leafs replied with two goals of their own for a brief lead.
“Very calm. We’ve talked about that many times, we don’t want to get riled up,” Senators coach Guy Boucher said. “There’s going to be emotional moments, but we definitely want our emotion to be under control. Anything that we don’t control, it has to be taken out of the equation really quick, and I thought our guys were super at that, and it helped us bounce back.”
Mark Stone closed out the scoring with an empty net goal.
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Frederik Andersen made 19 saves in taking the loss.
“I think we played a much better game than we did opening night against Montreal. I think at times we really had them hemmed in and couldn’t capitalize on chances. We ended up making a small mistake, and they ended up capitalizing. Sometimes the little things make a big difference,” Matthews said after the loss.
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