Sens chase Fleury, take down Pens

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Sens chase Fleury, take down Pens

Chris Phillips waited a long time to reveal his offensive skills.

Phillips scored twice in his 800th regular-season game, and Pascal Leclaire had 25 saves, leading Ottawa to a 6-2 victory over host Pittsburgh last night.

Penguins´ Martin Skoula checks Senators´ Jarkko Ruutu.
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Penguins' Martin Skoula checks Senators' Jarkko Ruutu.
 
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Phillips, who entered with one goal in 18 games, scored goals 2:03 apart in the third to put Ottawa up 5-1 and chase Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury.

"I'm not expected to, for sure," Phillips said. "It feels good to do it and it felt like one of those high energy games, for us anyways, and it's nice."

Milan Michalek got his 100th career goal and Matt Carkner, Chris Kelly and Jonathan Cheechoo also scored for Ottawa, which won its second in a row. Mike Fisher had three assists for the Senators.

"Philly had to wait until his 800th to get two in a row but that was pretty sweet," Carkner said. "He played really well tonight for us, a solid game and just that he got those two goals was huge for us. We're very proud of him."

Jordan Staal scored early in the first, and Evgeni Malkin had a power-play goal late in the third for Pittsburgh, which gave up six straight goals after taking a 1-0 lead 1:09 in.

Fleury, who had 19 saves, left 7:12 into the third after allowing five goals. Brent Johnson stopped six of seven shots.

Maxime Talbot (left shoulder injury) made his season debut and Sergei Gonchar returned to the Penguins' injury-depleted defense corps.

"It definitely feels good to be back," Talbot said. "Obviously you want to come back in a winning situation but personally I think I was lucky enough to have a couple of good shifts and I had ice time so it's good to be back out there."

Gonchar, who missed 12 games after he broke his left wrist on Oct. 20, played 25:30, the most ice time of any player on either team.

Jay McKee - sidelined by an infected finger following Monday night's 5-2 win over Anaheim - became the latest Pittsburgh blue-line loss, joining Kris Letang, Brooks Orpik and Alex Goligoski.

In other games:

* At Raleigh, N.C., Tuomo Ruutu and Jussi Jokinen scored in the shootout and the Hurricanes rallied from three goals down to beat Toront, 6-5. Meanwhile, Carolina put goalie Cam Ward (cut leg) on the long-term injured list, while center Eric Staal (upper body injury) was placed on injured list.

* At Atlanta, Michael Ryder scored twice, Patrice Bergeron had the only goal of the shootout and Boston snapped the Thrashers' four-game winning streak with a 4-3 victory.

* At Nashville, Mike Santorelli and Martin Erat scored shootout goals, and Jason Arnott had two goals in regulation in the Predators' 3-2 victory over New Jersey.

* At St. Louis, Erik Johnson scored on an end-to-end rush 17 seconds into overtime to give the Blues a 3-2 victory over Phoenix.

* At Anaheim, Scott Niedermayer scored a power-play goal 52 seconds into overtime as the Ducks beat Tampa Bay, 4-3.

* At Dallas, Rick Nash scored on a power play and Kristian Huselius added a shorthanded goal in the final seconds of the fight-filled opening period, sending the Columbus to a 4-1 victory over the Stars.

* At Calgary, Kris Versteeg scored two power-play goals in Chicago's five-goal second period to help the Blackhawks rout the Flames, 7-1.

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