Brady Tkachuk scored twice and goaltender Joonas Korpisalo made 39 saves Saturday to help the visiting Ottawa Senators snap a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Ridly Greig added a goal and an assist, Dominik Kubalik and Drake Batherson also scored, and Claude Giroux and Tim Stutzle each added two assists for the Senators, who were playing without three injured defensemen.
Sidney Crosby and Jake Guentzel scored for the Penguins, who have lost four of five.
Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry gave up three goals on nine shots before being pulled. Magnus Hellberg, making his Penguins debut, made 15 saves.
During a power play, Greig gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at 4:24 of the first. Giroux, from the left-wing boards, got the puck on the net, and Greig deflected it backward between his skates past Jarry’s glove.
At 14:14 of the first, Tkachuk made it 2-0. From the left dot, he snapped the puck under Jarry’s glove.
Korpisalo stopped 22 shots in the first.
The Senators thought they took a three-goal lead at 4:20 of the second, but Pittsburgh successfully challenged that there was an offside play, negating the goal.
Just 1:08 later, however, Ottawa did bag its third goal. Mathieu Joseph carried the puck across the blue line at the right point. Greig took a drop pass from Joseph and fed Kubalik, who scored on a one-time slap shot from the top of the right circle.
Hellberg then replaced Jarry, who was coming off a shutout Thursday against Colorado.
Crosby closed it to 3-1 at 17:34 of the second. Bryan Rust, from the left dot, got the puck to Crosby near the far post. Crosby dropped to one knee and chipped the puck behind Korpisalo.
Ottawa put it away with goals 31 seconds apart in the third quarter.
Tkachuk got a rebound near the left post, went forehand to backhand and swept the puck past Hellberg to make it 4-1 at 13:07.
Batherson got a step on two Penguins for a breakaway and made it 5-1 at 13:38.
Guentzel’s goal with 33.3 seconds left was too little, too late.
–Field Level Media