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Kovalev, Alfredsson score in shootout to lead Senators in 4-3 win over Ducks

Monday, 12.07.2009 / 12:08 AM / News

The Canadian Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Ottawa gave up one-goal leads three times against the Anaheim Ducks - each time in less than a minute - before Alex Kovalev and Daniel Alfredsson scored in the first two rounds of a shootout for a 4-3 victory on Sunday night to snap the Senators' four-game losing streak.

Ryan Getzlaf scored a fluke goal for Anaheim 15 seconds after Jarkko Ruutu got one, Joffrey Lupul tied it again 31 seconds after Jason Spezza regained the lead for the Senators, and Corey Perry tied again early in the third period after Filip Kuba's go-ahead score.

Brian Elliott finished with 33 saves and stopped two of three shots in the tiebreaker, helping the Senators salvage the finale of a five-game road trip that began with a shootout loss against Boston.

Ottawa ended a seven-game road losing streak and beat Anaheim for the first time in three meetings since the 2007 Stanley Cup finals, which the Ducks won in five games.

Kuba gave Ottawa a 3-2 lead 64 seconds into the third period, beating Jean-Sebastien Giguere to the glove side with a 35-foot snap shot after Spezza set him up in the slot with a pass from behind the net.

But the Ducks tied it when Perry carried the puck from the top of the right circle toward the slot and took a backhander that grazed defenceman Anton Volchenkov's jersey and got past Elliott's glove.

Ruutu opened the scoring at 12:01 of the first period, intercepting James Wisniewski's pass from behind the net and stuffing his fifth goal past Giguere. The Ducks got even when Getzlaf fired the puck off the left boards from the red line and the carom fooled Elliott, who came out of his crease to retrieve it and ended up embarrassed when it eluded his outstretched glove and trickled into the vacated net.

The Senators then received a two-man advantage for 47 seconds after staggered penalties to Lupul for cross-checking and Todd Marchant for tripping. Spezza regained the lead for Ottawa 10 seconds after the first penalty expired, converting a rebound at the 15:17 mark after Giguere made rapid-fire saves against Kovalev and Daniel Alfredsson.

But the Ducks erased that brief deficit on a wrist shot from the left circle by Lupul that beat Elliott to the glove side. It was the third goal in two games for Lupul, who sat out the previous seven because of back spasms.

NOTES: The Ducks are 99-74-21 since their Stanley Cup showdown with Ottawa, and the Senators are 93-76-23. Each club has seven players left on its roster from those finals. ... Alfredsson, the franchise leader in points, goals and assists, hasn't gone more than three consecutive games without a point since a four-game stretch in October 2006. ... Following Tuesday night's game against Dallas, the Ducks will play seven of their next eight on the road. ... Perry, whose franchise-record 19-game point streak ended last week, extended his home point streak to 15 games with his 15th goal. ... Anaheim's opponents were 2 for 26 on the power play over the previous seven games.

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