Shamed Sens take frustration out on Devs

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators needed someone to step up, and Mark Stone delivered.

Stone notched two goals and three assists, Colin White scored twice and the Senators beat the Devils, 7-3, on Tuesday night in their first game since the emergence of an embarrassing viral video.

The clip showed seven players during an Uber ride in Phoenix last month insulting the team and assistant coach Martin Raymond. Earlier in the day, Stone dismissed the latest drama to the Senators season as a “hiccup” and said the team is already repairing the frayed relationship be- tween players and coaches that was laid bare in the video.

“I think we’ve lost six out of seven games so we needed a win. We haven’t been playing our best hockey so maybe this can help this team move forward,” Stone said. Matt Duchene, one of the players in the video, apologized after the game and said it was impressive the way the team responded.

“Once we got that first (goal), I thought we did a good job pushing back and imposing our game on them,” Duchene said. “We kept the hammer down and we didn’t change our game, even when it was close, and that’s the type of hockey that we need to play.”

Thomas Chabot, Ryan Dzingel and Magnus Paajarvi had the other Senators (6-6-3) goals. Craig Anderson made 30 saves before he was replaced by Mike McKenna (six saves) for the final five minutes. Chabot also had two assists while Matt Duchene had three.

Taylor Hall, Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac scored for the Devils (6-6-1), who haven’t won consecutive games since they started the season with four straight wins. The Devils led 2-0 before Ottawa blew it open in the second period.

“Those first 10 minutes we got rewarded for what we wanted to do. We were playing with speed, we were playing a north-south game and we were getting rewarded. You’d think it would be easier that way to just stick with it,” Devils captain Andy Greene said.