OTTAWA (AP) – Mike Fisher and Dean McAmmond each scored twice and Daniel Alfredsson had three assists as the Ottawa Senators ended a three-game losing streak with a 5-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night.

Ray Emery made 28 saves for Ottawa, which had blown three straight third-period leads over a 0-1-2 stretch, including allowing three goals 2:48 apart midway through the third period of Tuesday’s 5-4 shootout loss to Pittsburgh.

Senators leading scorer Dany Heatley extended his points streak to 13 games with an assist on McAmmond’s second goal in the third.

Tom Preissing scored Ottawa’s third power-play goal and Jason Spezza had two assists as he returned to the lineup after his 11-game points streak ended Tuesday when he was a last-minute scratch because of back pain.

Alex Steen scored in the second for Toronto, which remained tied for eighth place in the Eastern Conference with 73 points.

The Maple Leafs, already tied with Carolina, squandered their game in hand on the Hurricanes and were joined in a three-way tie for the final playoff spot by the New York Rangers.

Fisher scored a pair of power-play goals in the first, including his 16th of the season 5:13 in after Toronto was called for too many men. He added his second goal – his 17th of the season – at 12:36 as Ottawa converted its first two opportunities with the man advantage.

Alfredsson assisted on both of Fisher’s goals before adding his third point of the game as McAmmond increased the Senators’ lead to 3-0 when he beat Andrew Raycroft for a short-handed goal 3:51 into the second.

Steen drew Toronto within 3-1 at 10:57 when he drove the net and put a shot over Emery’s left shoulder for his 14th of the season.

Preissing restored Ottawa’s three-goal lead at 16:48 with his sixth goal as the Senators scored their third power-play goal 21 seconds into their fourth opportunity to go up 4-1.

Prior to squandering Tuesday’s 4-1 advantage over the fifth-place Penguins, Ottawa had also blown third-period leads in Atlanta and Chicago in its previous two games.

McAmmond ensured that the Senators’ dubious streak would end when he got his second of the game 3:04 into the third to make it a four-goal lead.

Notes: Raycroft is 2-4-1 against Ottawa this season. … Heatley has 10 goals and 10 assists over the course of his streak.

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