Thomas Chabot scored less than a minute into the game Friday night to give the host Ottawa Senators a lead they’d never relinquish in a 4-1 win over the New York Rangers.
Logan Brown, Tyler Ennis and Anthony Duclair also scored for the surging Senators, who have won three straight and are 10-5-0 since a 1-6-1 start. Goalie Anders Nilsson made 30 saves.
Jacob Trouba scored for the Rangers, who have lost three of four - a span in which their only win came against the NHL-leading Washington Capitals. Goalie Henrik Lundqvist recorded 35 saves. The Senators jumped out right away when Chabot’s rebound of Brady Tkachuk’s shot rang off the top post and into the net just 57 seconds after the opening faceoff.
The Senators used the top post again fewer than six minutes later. Jean-Gabriel Pageau won a battle for the puck along the boards near the Rangers’ net and passed to Brown, who beat Lundqvist for his first NHL goal at the 6:32 mark. Brown, 21, was playing in his 15th NHL game.
The Rangers rode a faceoff win to Trouba’s goal with 2:40 left in the opening period. Greg McKegg wrested the puck away from Chris Tierney to begin a sequence that ended when Trouba’s slap shot sailed under the stick of a screened Nilsson, who looked in both directions after the puck flew by him.
A Rangers turnover in the neutral zone led to an impressive individual effort by Ennis early in the second period. Ennis, skating up the left side, outraced Filip Chytil, who was trying to poke the puck free. Rangers defenseman Brady Skjei then tried to check Ennis, who reached around Skjei and poked the puck home a mere 1:11 into the period.
The Senators scored their final goal on a five-on-three power play generated when the Rangers were whistled for having too many men on the ice before Trouba incurred a delay-of-game penalty. With five seconds left on the initial penalty, Duclair’s shot from between the faceoff circles sailed past Lundqvist. Duclair has four goals in his past four games.

Penguins hand Devils second straight loss
Jared McCann and John Marino scored in a 25-second span early in the third period Friday to help the Pittsburgh Penguins top the visiting New Jersey Devils 4-1.
Dominik Kahun and Jake Guentzel also scored for the Penguins, who had lost two straight but are 6-2-4 in their past 12 games. Tristan Jarry, the Penguins’ backup goalie, made 36 saves to even his record at 3-3-0. Taylor Hall scored for New Jersey, which lost its second in a row.
Mackenzie Blackwood allowed four goals on 36 shots before being pulled in the third period for Louis Domingue, who in his season debut stopped all five shots he faced.
Kahun gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead at 7:51 of the first, his fifth point in four games. He carried the puck out of the corner, avoided defenseman Mirco Mueller sliding to the ice and swept in a backhander past Blackwood’s blocker. On a power play that carried over from the first period, New Jersey tied it 31 seconds into the second. Hall - who leads the Devils in points but had created a talking point with just two goals before Friday - scored for the first time in 10 games, on a rebound from the left circle off the short-side post.
Evgeni Malkin set up Guentzel for a breakaway from the right point, and Guentzel deked Blackwood before sliding a backhander past the goalie’s left skate for his team-leading 11th goal and a 2-1 Pittsburgh lead at 12:27 of the second.
Bryan Rust had the secondary assist, giving him 13 points in 12 games. The Penguins broke it open early in the third. After Alex Galchenyuk fanned on a shot from the slot, the puck slid back to McCann at the center point. He moved into the right circle and blasted a shot past Blackwood’s glove to make it 3-1 at 2:05. Marino upped it to 4-1 at 2:30 on a screened shot from the right point.
The rookie defenseman’s second career goal gave him a four-game point streak. It also chased Blackwood for Domingue.