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Senators 6, Capitals 1

OTTAWA, Ontario — Josh Norris scored a pair of goals in his season debut Wednesday night, leading the Ottawa Senators to a 6-1 win over the Washington Capitals.

Norris had missed the first three games of the regular season and didn’t play in the preseason, but looked solid in his return. The Senators center was coming off shoulder surgery last January.

Vladimir Tarasenko, Artem Zub, Claude Giroux and Jake Sanderson also scored for the Senators (3-1-0), who picked up their third straight win. Anton Forsberg made 23 saves.

The Capitals (1-2-0), playing their first road game of the season, often dominated play in the opening period but the Senators capitalized on their chances and some poor defensive coverage.

John Carlson scored the Capitals’ lone goal. Darcy Kuemper stopped 23 shots.

Trailing 5-1 in the third, the Capitals managed just three shots on goal while Ottawa extended its lead on a laser of a shot from Sanderson.

Ottawa scored three unanswered goals in the second to take that 5-1 lead and never looked back.

Norris picked up his second by beating Kuemper glove side two minutes into the second period. Zub scored with a shot from the blue line three minutes later.

Giroux picked up his first of the season after some poor coverage by the Capitals allowed him to drive to the net uncontested for an easy tap-in.

Tarasenko opened the scoring four minutes in after taking a pass from Ridly Greig to beat Kuemper, but it was Norris’ power-play goal midway through the period that brought the crowd to its feet.

Red Wings 6, Penguins 3

DETROIT — Andrew Copp and Alex DeBrincat each scored twice, Ville Husso made 30 saves and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 on Wednesday night.

Copp scored in a three-goal second period to give Detroit a 4-1 lead, but Pittsburgh pulled within a goal midway through the third.

Copp sealed the win with an empty-net goal with 1:32 to go. DeBrincat also took advantage of the Penguins pulling their goaltender to add an extra skater, restoring the Red Wings’ three-goal lead 21 seconds later.

Ben Chiarot, David Perron and Copp scored in the second period.

Evgeni Malkin gave the Penguins their only lead in the opening minute, when he extended his goals streak to three games. Tristan Jarry stopped 23 shots.

Erik Karlsson cut Pittsburgh’s deficit to two goals early in the third period. Shortly thereafter, Copp was given a penalty shot and he couldn’t get it past Jarry.

Husso kept the two-goal lead midway through the third by stopping shots by Rickard Rakell and Karlsson.

The Red Wings needed the cushion because Bryan Rust redirected a shot to make it 4-3 with 6:57 left.