Robin Lehner stopped 32 shots for his first NHL shutout and defenseman Erik Karlsson scored the lone goal, lifting surging Ottawa to a 1-0 win over Boston on Tuesday.
It was the Senators’ first victory in five games against the Bruins this season.
The Senators moved one point behind the Northeast Division-leading Bruins, who have played four fewer games. Ottawa won for the sixth time in seven games and sent the Bruins to their fourth loss in six.
The 20-year old Lehner was playing in just his 11th NHL game. He started because regular goalie Craig Anderson is sidelined indefinitely after cutting his hand last week in a kitchen accident.
Tim Thomas made 37 saves for the Bruins, but lost to a divisional opponent for just the second time in 14 games.
Lightning 2, Canadiens 1
In Tampa, Florida, Steven Stamkos scored his NHL-leading 44th goal as Tampa Bay beat slumping Montreal.
Adam Hall also scored for the Lightning, who are 11th in the Eastern Conference and trail eighth-place Washington by five points. Mathieu Garon finished with 23 saves.
David Desharnais scored for the Canadiens, who have lost five in a row and been outscored 16-5 in that stretch.
Tampa Bay went ahead 2-1 when Hall ended his 45-game goal drought, dating to the season opener against Carolina.
Panthers 5, Maple Leafs 3
In Toronto, Mike Santorelli scored twice for Florida in a road win over the Maple Leafs.
Loud chants of “Fire Wilson!” directed at coach Ron Wilson were heard twice during the third period as the Leafs lost for the ninth time in 10 games, including all four on a homestand. Toronto are four points out of a playoff position in the Eastern Conference.
Marcel Goc, Jason Garrison and Stephen Weiss also scored for Florida, who lead the Southeast Division with 72 points. Jose Theodore added 28 saves.
Phil Kessel, Nikolai Kulemin and Joffrey Lupul had goals for the Maple Leafs.
Coyotes 2, Canucks 1, SO
In Glendale, Arizona, Mike Smith stopped 39 shots and Ray Whitney scored in the third period and during the shootout as Phoenix extended their point streak to 12 games by beating NHL-leading Vancouver.
Smith allowed a goal on a carom in the first period, but nothing else. He stopped Alexander Edler and Mason Raymond in the shootout to extend his career-best and franchise-record winning streak to 11 games.
Edler scored in the first period, and Schneider stopped 34 shots, but allowed goals on two of three shots in the shootout.
Red Wings 5, Blue Jackets 2
In Columbus, Ohio, Henrik Zetterberg scored the go-ahead goal and added an assist and Joey MacDonald had 28 saves to help Detroit end a three-game slide by beating Columbus.
Johan Franzen had a goal and two assists, Niklas Kronwall and Valtteri Filppula both added a goal and assist and Jan Mursak also scored for the Red Wings, who are 26-3-2 at home, but only 16-16-1 on the road.
MacDonald, 7-1-1 this season playing behind No. 1 goalie Jimmy Howard, made a big stop on Ryan Russell’s short-handed breakaway to keep the game tied at two in the third period.
In other NHL action, it was:
‧ Capitals 3, Islanders 2, OT
‧ Sharks 1, Flyers 0
‧ Hurricanes 4, Predators 3
‧ Kings 4, Wild 0
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