Hayes Scores Hat Trick, Bruins Beat Senators 7-3

BOSTON -- Previously slumping right winger Jimmy Hayes delivered the first hat trick of his NHL career and center Patrice Bergeron and left winger Matt Beleskey both scored twice as the Boston Bruins ended a three-game losing streak with a 7-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night.

The Bruins' league-leading power play, dormant for four games, struck for four goals, two by Bergeron.

Boston (20-12-4) lost to the Senators in Ottawa in the first half of the home-and-home Sunday night, and avoided what would have been its first four-game losing streak of the season.

The power play registered its first four-goal game of the season and its sixth multiple-goal game of the season, powering the Bruins to a season-high seven goals, overall.

This game was 4-3 until the Bruins broke it open late, with Hayes capping his hat trick with 0.2 showing on the clock.

Defenseman Torey Krug, center Ryan Spooner and right winger Loui Eriksson had two assists apiece for the Bruins. Krug now has 100 career NHL points.

The two-goal game for Bergeron, who has 14 goals on the season, was his second in the last six games, while Beleskey had his first since April 9, 2010.

The win came in the Bruins' final game before Friday's Winter Classic against the Montreal Canadiens at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

Right winger Chris Neil, known more for his rough stuff than his scoring, had a goal and an assist -- his fourth and fifth points of the season -- and center Mika Zibanejad and left winger Mike Hoffman (his 18th) also scored for the Senators (18-13-6).

After Hoffman's harmless angle shot deflected off the skate of defenseman Dennis Seidenberg and through goaltender Tuukka Rask at 4:22 of the third period to make it 4-3 in favor of the Bruins, Rask held strong, giving his team the chance to break the game open. He made 29 saves in the win.

Ottawa goaltender Craig Anderson made 31 stops.

NOTES: The Bruins placed C David Krejci on injured reserve and termed him week-to-week with a shoulder injury sustained on a collision with Ottawa RW Bobby Ryan on Sunday. "It was kind of a shoulder on shoulder," said Ryan. ... Boston recalled RW Seth Griffith from its AHL affiliate in Providence, where he had 27 points in 24 games. ... Ottawa has four players on IR and C Curtis Lazar missed his second straight stab at his 100th NHL game with an injury. ... Boston D Torey Krug returned after missing a game with a leg injury. ... The Bruins' alumni team, which will play a Montreal Canadiens team Thursday at Gillette Stadium as a prelude to Friday's Winter Classic, practiced at TD Garden earlier Tuesday. ... Renowned tough guy Chris Nilan, who played for both but will be skating for Montreal this week, has a jersey with one team on the front and the other on the back that will be raffled off for charity.