Thomas Chabot, Austin Watson, Derek Stepan and Chris Tierney also scored for Ottawa. Josh Norris, with his first NHL points, Drake Batherson and Nikita Zaitsev added two assists each in the first of nine meetings between the Ontario rivals in the pandemic-shortened season.Frederik Andersen
Playing their first home game since March 5 _ a stretch of 316 days _ the rebuilding Senators unveiled an off-season roster remake that includes No. 3 overall pick Tim Stützle, who celebrated both his NHL debut and 19th birthday, Murray in goal, defencemen Erik Gudbranson, Josh Brown and Braydon Coburn, as well as Stepan, Watson, Evgenii Dadonov and Cedric Paquette up front.
But the Senators got back even 1:13 later when Tkachuk outmuscled T.J. Brodie in front of Andersen to tip Zaitsev's shot home. Watson then got in on the action at 12:32, taking a drop pass from Braydon Coburn after some nice work by Nick Paul, and ripping a shot in off the crossbar to give Ottawa its first lead.
The Leafs got a power play not long after that, and Tavares snapped his second of the season in off the post just 52 seconds later for Toronto's second power-play goal of the night and fourth already in 2021.
Awesome! Go Sens!
I'm sure Toronto media is crying themselves to sleep tonight.
There’s no way that fake fan noise is being played correctly. I can’t even tell you how many leaf at sens games I’ve been at and a 5-3 loss by the leafs and the CTC would be as quite as a church. MapleLeafs Senators VinceKewaquado JDBunkis Ben
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