Jagr Can’t Save Capitalsin 11-5 Loss to Senators

Jaromir Jagr’s return to the Washington Capitals lineup was upstaged by a record-setting performance by the streaking Ottawa Senators.

Marian Hossa had two goals and two assists during a five-goal first period at Washington as the Senators routed the Capitals, 11-5, Tuesday night, setting a club record for goals scored in their franchise-best seventh consecutive victory.

“I think we surprised them--especially in the first period, we had a quick start,” Hossa said. “We hadn’t gotten off to quick starts lately.”

Daniel Alfredsson had three goals and Shawn McEachern two for the Senators.

Ottawa victimized goaltender Olaf Kolzig for five goals on 14 shots in the opening period, scoring on three of their first six shots by the time 7:07 had elapsed.

“What do you want me to say?” Kolzig said. “Take this game and throw it in the trash. It would take too long to analyze this thing. It was just a bad game. ... If we sat here and moped and let it destroy us, then the season would be over.”

Jagr, who had missed four games because of a strained right knee, could not prevent the Capitals from slipping to 1-6-1 in their last eight games. He assisted on Sylvain Cote’s third-period goal.

The record for most goals scored by one team is 16 by Montreal in a 16-3 victory over Quebec in 1920.

Edmonton 5, Phoenix 4--Ryan Smyth scored twice, including a power-play goal with 2:09 remaining in overtime as the Oilers won at Phoenix.

Daniel Briere sent the game into overtime when he scored his second goal of the game with 16.9 seconds remaining.

Anson Carter had a goal and two assists while Tom Poti and Eric Brewer also scored for Edmonton, which is 3-0-1-1 in its last five games and 6-1-1-1 in its last nine.

Boston 5, Montreal 3--Brian Rolston scored to break a third-period tie at Boston and Byron Dafoe maintained his mastery of the Canadiens.

Dafoe stopped 17 shots to improve to 14-3-3 against Montreal.

Jose Theodore stopped 30 shots, and Andrei Markov, Oleg Petrov and Jan Bulis scored for the Canadiens, who have lost five consecutive road games.

Detroit 4, Carolina 3--Sergei Fedorov had a goal and two assists and Steve Yzerman had three assists at Detroit as the Red Wings held on to defeat the Hurricanes.

Detroit led, 4-0, after scoring three goals over a five-minute stretch in the second period, but the Hurricanes scored three goals in the final period to keep it interesting.

Brendan Shanahan, Matthieu Dandenault and Tomas Holmstrom scored for the Red Wings (15-3-0-1), who have the NHL’s best record.

Columbus 3, St. Louis 2--Ray Whitney scored a rare power-play goal for the Blue Jackets with five seconds remaining in overtime to beat the Blues for their first home win.

The Blue Jackets had been one for 54 on the power play at home before that goal, by far the worst in the league. Columbus was also the only team that had not won at home.

Keith Tkachuck and Pavol Demitra scored for St. Louis.

Pittsburgh 5, New Jersey 1--Alexei Kovalev scored three goals at East Rutherford, N.J., to celebrate his return to the lineup as the Penguins ended a three-game winless streak.

Aleksey Morozov scored twice and had assists on two of Kovalev’s goals.

Jean-Sebastien Aubin made 25 saves to record his first win of the season (1-3-1) and the first of his career over New Jersey.

Nashville 4, Buffalo 1--Scott Hartnell scored a goal and had two assists to lead the Predators at Nashville.

David Legwand and Cliff Ronning each added a goal and an assist and Vitali Yachmenev also scored.

Minnesota 4, Atlanta 2--Marian Gaborik had his first three-goal game in the NHL, leading the Wild at St. Paul, Minn.

The second-year player scored three goals off rebounds to record the second hat trick in the franchise’s two-year history. Antti Laaksonen had one last season.

Vancouver 3, Chicago 2--Jarkko Ruutu scored his first two goals of the season and Ed Jovanovski was credited with the game-winner after a strange bounce as the Canucks won at Vancouver, Canada.