Sens fall late to Rangers

The Ottawa Senators were beaten 3-2 by the New York Rangers Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire Centre.

Senators (2-3-0) starter Matt Murray made 22 saves before leaving late in the third period with an injury and being replaced by Anton Forsberg. Nicholas Paul and Josh Norris scored for Ottawa.
Alexandar Georgiev stopped 26 shots in the Rangers (4-1-1) net as Chris Kreider, Ryan Lindgren and Barcley Goodrow had goals.
"I thought we carried the play for 54 minutes, made some bad plays and ultimately end up losing a game you shouldn't lose," Senators head coach D.J. Smith said, after the Senators held a 2-0 lead past the midway point of the third period.
It took all of 41 seconds for the Senators to open the scoring and it came through Paul, who was playing centre in place of the injured Shane Pinto, after he took a pass from Tim Stützle in the slot and fired his second of the season past Georgiev.
"I saw Tim go to the wing and there was a little gap off of Connor Brown's] back foot and the backchecker and Timmy found me perfectly and I let a shot goal and it end up going in. It was a nice play."
After a scoreless second, it took only 64 seconds for the Senators to double its lead as Norris grabbed his second of the year on a low wrister from the right faceoff circle that took a slight deflection off of Patrik Nemeth and slid under Georgiev's right pad.
After brilliantly denying Kreider on the doorstep with a glove save earlier in the third, the Rangers finally beat Murray with 5:23 left on the power play as Kreider scored from in-close off of Artemi Panarin's feed. Murray was injured on the play after taking a knee to the head from Kreider and was replaced by Forsberg.
Ottawa thought they were getting a power play late in the third but after an embellishment call on Stützle nullified the man advantage, despite him skating in on a 2-on-1, New York tied the game with 4:08 to play as during the resulting 4-on-4 action, Lindgren scored from the top of the crease as he had his stick on the ice to re-direct Adam Fox's pass past Forsberg.
"We're looking at a 2-1 game and think we're going on the power play and it's now a 4-on-4 and the rest is history," Smith said.
The Rangers had its first lead of the night with 2:03 to play as Goodrow gave the visitors a 3-2 lead they wouldn't relinquish.
"That's a game we should have had," Paul said.
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