OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators had six different goal scorers Saturday night to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 7-4.
Drake Batherson, Julien Gauthier, Patrick Brown, Alex DeBrincat, Egor Sokolov, Mark Kastelic and Claude Giroux, into an empty net, each scored for Ottawa (38-35-7). Cam Talbot made 19 saves.
Alex Killorn, Brandon Hagel, Victor Hedman and Brayden Point scored for Tampa (45-29-6), who have now lost three straight. Brian Elliott stopped 33 shots. This was Tampa's final road game of the regular season and second loss to Ottawa in two weeks.
The Senators, officially eliminated from playoff contention and missing six regulars, gave the playoff-bound Lightning all they could handle.
Leading 4-3 to start the third Sokolov intercepted an Erik Cernak pass and proceeded to bury the turnover for his first NHL goal, but the Lightning continued to fight back and made it a one-goal game when Point was left all alone in front and tipped Hedman's shot past Talbot.
Kastelc made it 6-4 and Giroux added an empty-netter.
