Senators start fast, roll past slumping Bruins

The visiting Ottawa Senators scored three goals in each of the first two periods en route to a 6-2 win over the Boston Bruins in the second game of both teams' weekend back-to-back sets on Sunday evening.

Fabian Zetterlund scored two power-play goals and added an assist to lead Ottawa to its season-high fourth consecutive win and third in completing the four-game season series with Boston.

Drake Batherson and Dylan Cozens also had three-point nights for the Senators, posting a goal and two helpers each. Claude Giroux netted a goal and an assist, Tim Stutzle also scored, David Perron had two assists and Linus Ullmark made 17 saves to beat his former team.

Boston's Charlie McAvoy scored his first goal of the season and added an assist, while David Pastrnak also scored. Joonas Korpisalo allowed five goals on 17 shots before Jeremy Swayman entered for relief in the second period.

The Bruins have lost three straight (0-2-1) on their five-game homestand.

Ottawa had a 28-19 advantage in shots on goal.

Batherson needed just 90 seconds to give Ottawa a 1-0 lead, snapping off the opening goal high to Korpisalo's glove side after Nick Jensen settled down a puck for him in the slot.

Minutes after Korpisalo saved Stutzle's first of two short-handed breakaways in the first period, Giroux buried a close-range wrist shot to double the visitors' edge to two at 13:44. Cozens had an initial shot saved before Batherson kicked the puck across to Giroux to set up the play.

At 16:47, Zetterlund made it a 3-0 game when snuck a puck short-side on Korpisalo in the waning seconds of an Ottawa power play.

A late 5-on-3 helped the Bruins temporarily cut their deficit, as Pastrnak let a slapper go from the right dot off a Pavel Zacha feed with 53 seconds left in the frame.

The Senators continued to surge in the middle frame, scoring two goals in a 19-second span to chase Korpisalo from the Boston net. Stutzle scored the first quick-fire marker on a loose puck outside the crease at 6:44, then Cozens wired a one-time shot upstairs at 7:03.

Boston got a goal back at 14:36 as McAvoy walked into a shot at the top of the circle that sailed through traffic, but Zetterlund reestablished Ottawa's four-goal buffer as he scored a bump pass from Stephen Halliday on the man advantage 2:50 later.

--Field Level Media