The Ottawa Senators Filip Kuba scored the go-ahead goal with 1:11 left and Ottawa beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-4 on Sunday to earn a split of the weekend home-and-home series.
Kuba fired a slap shot from the left point past goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, and Nick Foligno sealed the win with an empty-net goal with 45 seconds to go.
The Senators won for the sixth time when trailing after two periods this season, and improved to 12-14-5 in games in which they were tied or behind through 40 minutes.
Matt Read scored a power-play goal in the second and assisted on one of three Flyers goals in the first.
Andrei Meszaros scored 2:32 into his 500th NHL game to draw Philadelphia even at 1. Marc-Andre Bourdon and Sean Couturier had goals 28 seconds apart to give the Flyers a 3-2 lead later in the first period.
Read's goal 14:08 into the second - the third of the game by a Philadelphia rookie -was his 13th of the season. Read gave the Flyers a 4-2 lead and tied Edmonton's Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for the most goals by an NHL rookie this season.
Bryzgalov stopped 32 shots for Philadelphia, which had won two in a row and three of four.
“I thought we turned the puck over way too many times throughout the game and I just felt that we were too soft,” said Flyers center Danny Briere, who scored all three Philadelphia goals in Saturday's win. “I hate saying that, and usually it doesn't happen with the Flyers, but physically we got outplayed. Ottawa was running around way too much for my liking. That can't be happening.”
Greening got credit for his ninth goal 3:11 into the third to bring the Senators within 4-3. Philadelphia defenseman Matt Carle redirected Greening's centering pass beyond Bryzgalov for the goal.
Karlsson tied it at 4 with an unassisted effort. The high-scoring defenseman took the puck away from Jaromir Jagr and drove in to beat Bryzgalov for his sixth goal.
A scramble in the Flyers' goal mouth resulted in the Senators taking a 2-1 lead at 8:25. After initially signaling no goal, referee Brad Watson pointed to center ice to the delight of the sold-out crowd after a long video review determined that the puck crossed the goal line on Neil's shot into Bryzgalov's glove.
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