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.

"Our focus was just to build off a 4-3 win at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday*
"If [Dubnyk] hadn't played as well as he did, we would have probably been down three at the 10-minute mark [of the first period], I figure," Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said.
Matt Duchene, Ryan Dzingel and Mark Stone scored for the Senators (15-22-5), whose losing streak extended to a season-long seven games. Anders Nilsson made 22 saves in his debut for Ottawa.
"Sometimes it takes something extraordinary to take out of a skid like this," Duchene said. "We're going to keep pushing; we're not packing it in. There's lots of hockey left to be played and hopefully we can work our way out."

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.
"Our system is trying to be solid throughout the neutral zone and defensive zone," Spurgeon said, "but if we have the opportunity to jump, [Boudreau] encourages that."
Dzingel tapped in a cross-crease pass from Bobby Ryan to give the Senators a 2-1 lead at 8:08.
"Obviously, it's crunch time here," Dzingel said. "Anytime we don't find a way to get it done, it's tough. But we've got another one tomorrow, so we have to find a way to get that done."
Minnesota tied it 2-2 at 14:10 when Greenway jammed in a puck on the edge of the crease. Spurgeon scored his second 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, and Stone redirected a Cody Ceci point shot to cut it to 4-3 at 10:10.
"We're trying as hard as we can to turn this thing around and string some wins together," Parise said. "It was another come-from-behind, good road win for us."

They said it

"Every team in the NHL has a line that's a go-to line. We're hoping that we get another one, because the good teams have more than one, but right now, that's our go-to line." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on the forward line of Zach Parise, Charlie Coyle and Luke Kunin
"A lot of us have talked about how that's the biggest challenge with a young team: the consistency for 60 minutes, shift by shift, and over the course of games as well. Something we showed at the start of the year; we were either unbelievable or awful." -- Senators center Matt Duchene

Need to know

Parise has nine points (four goals, five assists) in a five-game point streak. … Stone scored his 20th goal of the season, his fifth consecutive with at least 20 goals. Three other players in Senators history have achieved the feat: Daniel Alfredsson (10 straight seasons) Jason Spezza (six) and Marian Hossa (five). … The Senators have allowed at least four goals in six of their past seven games.

What's next

Wild: At the Montreal Canadiens on Monday (7:30 p.m. ET; TSN2, FS-N, NHL.TV)
Senators: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday (1 p.m. ET; RDS2, TSN5, FS-SE, NHL.TV)