TORONTO — Claude Giroux had two goals and an assist as the Ottawa Senators scored three times in the third period to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Wednesday and pick up just their second victory in three weeks.
Dominik Kubalik also scored twice for Ottawa , while Tim Stutzle had a goal and three assists. Jakob Chychrun scored and set up another for the Senators, who entered having lost two in a row and five of their last six in regulation.William Nylander, with a goal and an assist, Tyler Bertuzzi and Nick Robertson replied for Toronto . John Tavares added two assists. Joseph Woll stopped 21 shots.
Tied 1-1 after the opening period, Ottawa grabbed its first lead 1:04 into the second when Giroux scored his fourth goal of the campaign. Toronto tied it up again at 7:42 of the third when Robertson took a pass from Max Domi on a 2-on-1 and chipped his first upstairs on Korpisalo. Korpisalo made a terrific glove stop on Auston Matthews — the NHL goal leader entering play with 13 in 12 games — with less than a minute left in the period to keep the teams level through 20 minutes.
Fans at Canadian Tire Centre booed the team and chanted for head coach D.J. Smith to be fired during Saturday's 6-4 loss to Tampa, which prompted some pointed post-game comments from captain Brady Tkachuk.Senators defenceman Artem Zub sat for a seventh consecutive game, while Leafs counterpart Jake McCabe missed his sixth straight contest.
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