OTTAWA — Chris Phillips scored twice in his 800th regular-season game and Pascal Leclaire made 25 saves, leading the Ottawa Senators to a 6-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night.
Phillips, who entered with one goal in 18 games, scored goals 2:03 apart in the third to put Ottawa up 5-1 and chase Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury.
Milan Michalek got his 100th career goal and Matt Carkner, Chris Kelly and Jonathan Cheechoo also scored for Ottawa, which won its second in a row.
Mike Fisher had three assists for the Senators.
Jordan Staal scored early in the first, and Evgeni Malkin had a power-play goal late in the third for Pittsburgh, which gave up six straight goals after taking a 1-0 lead 1:09 in.
Fleury, who made 19 saves, left 7:12 into the third after allowing five goals. Brent Johnson stopped six of seven shots the rest of the way.
Maxime Talbot made his season debut for Pittsburgh and Sergei Gonchar returned to the Penguins’ injury-depleted defense corps.
Talbot, who had surgery on his left shoulder in July, played for the first time since scoring both goals in Pittsburgh’s 2-1 win over Detroit last spring in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup final. Gonchar missed
12 games after he broke his left wrist on Oct. 20.
Jay McKee – sidelined by an infected finger following Monday night’s 5-2 win over Anaheim – became the latest Pittsburgh blue-line loss, joining Kris Letang, Brooks Orpik and Alex Goligoski.
Carkner got his second goal of the season 12:16 in on a slap shot past Fleury to tie it at
1 after Staal deflected Pascal Dupuis’ pass beyond Leclaire to give Pittsburgh an early lead.
Michalek reached his milestone to give Ottawa a 2-1 lead on a power play 2:31 into the second. He deflected Daniel Alfredsson’s slap shot past Fleury for his ninth goal of the season.
Kelly scored his first goal of the season on a breakaway 1:29 into the third to put Ottawa up 3-1.
Phillips drove a slap shot past Fleury at 5:09 and scored again at 7:12 for his first multigoal game since Nov. 22, 2001.
Cheechoo beat Johnson with an unassisted effort for his second goal at 13:06.
Malkin scored his fifth on a power play at 17:19.
