Senators rally to defeat Blue Jackets

OTTAWA -- The Ottawa Senators scored four straight goals to rally for a 5-4 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Canadian Tire Centre on Friday.

The Senators trailed 3-1 in the second period before Nick Paul (14:14) made it 3-2 and Matt Duchene (18:52) tied it 3-3. Mark Stone gave the Senators a 4-3 lead at 7:41 of the third period, and Bobby Ryan made it 5-3 at 9:41.
Derick Brassard also scored for the Senators (12-16-8), who ended a four-game losing streak. Mike Condon made 21 saves.
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Sonny Milano scored two goals, and Josh Anderson and Zach Werenski scored for the Blue Jackets (22-14-3), who had earned a point in four straight games (2-0-2). Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves.

"We've just got to keep building," Duchene said. "Hopefully the tide is starting to turn a little bit. I think that's been a big part of things for us. We haven't been rewarded offensively and then we start to get away from our game a little bit and things snowball. Hopefully that starts to come when we play the way we did tonight."
Ottawa and Columbus combined for four goals in 3:09 early in the second period.
Milano gave the Blue Jackets a 1-0 lead at 4:15, scoring in front after the puck banked off the end boards, and Brassard tied it 1-1 at 5:42.
Anderson (7:11) and Milano (7:24) scored 13 seconds apart to make it 3-1. After Artemi Panarin created a turnover, he passed the puck to Anderson on the right wing, and he scored his 14th of the season on a shot over Condon's glove.
After a turnover by Ottawa defenseman Erik Karlsson, Seth Jones passed to Milano on the left wing, and he scored on a shot over Condon's glove.

Paul scored his first of the season when his soft shot hit the tip of Bobrovsky's stick blade and the puck went in between his skates.
"I saw [Nate] Thompson driving the net, so I just threw it at the net and it ended up going in off his stick," Paul said. "It was a nice feeling to give the team a little momentum and we came back hard."
"I've never scored one like that, but it's nice to have the bounce go my way there."
Duchene then tied it on a breakaway, deking to his backhand for his seventh of the season.
Stone gave the Senators the lead with his 15th of the season when he jammed the puck by Bobrovsky's pad at the left post. Ryan took a pass from Karlsson and scored from the slot to the glove side.
"After they scored those two goals at the end of the second period, it gave them life," Werenski said. "We just didn't come out strong in the third period and they did. We talked about it between periods, that it's going to happen, it's a tied hockey game and the next one's huge and we didn't elevate our game so it's kind of our fault, I think."
The Blue Jackets lost a two-goal lead for the second game in a row; they did it three times at the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday and lost 5-4 in a shootout.

"To get one out of four points isn't good enough, especially in the circumstances we were in," Werenski said.
Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said Columbus should have been able to bounce back from Paul's goal.
"If we can't get our game back and get some sort of push at that point in time, because of that goal then there's major problems," he said. "Any goal, whether it be good or bad, gives a team a lift, but that's how you play in the National Hockey League, is handle momentum, get momentum back on your side when you lose it and we didn't."
Werenski scored on the power play with 32 seconds left in the third period to make it 5-4.

Goal of the game

Ryan's goal at 9:21 of the third period.

Save of the game

Condon's save on Lukas Sedlak with 1:45 left in the first period.

Highlight of the game

Duchene's goal at 18:52 of the second period.

They said it

"I'm not going to get into ripping on [Bobrovsky]. That's not what I'm saying. [He] is in with the group of players. We have 20 players that play the game each and every night and everybody is involved in this. It's a situation [where] I'm anxious to see how guys handle themselves." -- Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella
"We capitalized on the scoring chances we got whether they were odd-man rushes or things around the crease. We did a better job of finding the net today and that's something that's been missing for quite some time now. It's nice to see that the guys still know what they're doing." --Senators captain Erik Karlsson

Need to know

Werenski returned after missing four games with an upper-body injury. … The Blue Jackets were 1-for-5 on the power play; Milano's first goal came one second after a penalty to Ryan expired.

What's next

Blue Jackets: Host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday (6 p.m. ET; FS-O, SUN, NHL.TV)
Senators: Host the Boston Bruins on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; SN, NESN, NHL.TV)