Wild hand Senators seventh straight loss

OTTAWA — Jared Spurgeon scored two goals for the Minnesota Wild in a 4-3 win against the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday.

Zach Parise had a goal and two assists, Jordan Greenway scored, Charlie Coyle and Luke Kunin each had two assists and Devan Dubnyk made 24 saves for the Wild (20-17-3), who are 3-1-0 in their past four games following a five-game losing streak (0-4-1).

Matt Duchene, Ryan Dzingel and Mark Stone scored for the Senators (15-22-5), whose losing streak extended to a season-long seven games (0-6-1). Anders Nilsson made 22 saves in his debut for Ottawa.

 

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After exiting the penalty box, Duchene took a pass from Zack Smith and scored on a breakaway to give the Senators a 1-0 lead with 54 seconds left in the first period.

Spurgeon finished a backhand deke to tie it 1-1 41 seconds into the second period.

Dzingel tapped in a cross-crease pass from Bobby Ryan to give the Senators a 2-1 lead at 8:08.

Minnesota tied it 2-2 at 14:10 when Greenway jammed in a puck on the edge of the crease. Spurgeon scored his second goal of the game with a slap shot from below the right face-off dot to give the Wild a 3-2 lead at 16:31.

Parise scored on a rebound to make it 4-2 at 6:07 of the third period.

Stone redirected a Cody Ceci point shot to cut it to 4-3 at 10:10.

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