Final Score: Ottawa 10, Buffalo 4

Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) - Martin Havlat and Daniel Alfredsson both recorded the first four-goal game of their careers and Dany Heatley added two more goals as the Ottawa Senators defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 10-4, at HSBC Arena.

It was Havlat's first game back after serving a five-game suspension for kicking Bruins' defenseman Hall Gill. It was also the fifth time in both Alfredsson's and Havlat's careers that they recorded a hat trick.

Jason Spezza recorded four assists, Alfredsson and Peter Schaefer had two assists each and Ray Emery made 33 saves for the Senators, who won for the third time in their last four games.

Jay McKee, Chris Drury and Ales Kotalik each scored goals for the Sabres, who have lost three of their last four games.

Mika Noronen stopped 13-of-17 shots he faced in relief of Martin Biron, who was pulled midway through the first period after giving up three goals on six shots. Biron returned to start the third period and finished with 13 saves.

Ottawa jumped out to a 5-0 lead after Havlat and Heatley alternated scoring first-period goals. Heatley broke the ice just 34 seconds into the game, beating Biron short-side for a 1-0 lead. Havlat then beat Biron with a wrist shot 2:39 later and after Heatley poked his own rebound past Biron for his second goal of the game, Ottawa had a 3-0 lead.

Havlat beat Noronen with a backhand glove-side with 6:06 left in the first period and he netted the hat trick early in the second stanza after he skated into the slot and flipped a wrist shot on goal that beat Noronen stick-side high.

Buffalo finally got on the scoreboard with 6:14 gone in the second after McKee wristed a shot past Emery from the high slot through traffic to make it 5-1.

Buffalo continued to claw its way back into the game after Drury jammed the puck past Emery stick-side low midway through the second and, less than three minutes later, Kotalik beat Emery glove-side with a wrist shot from the right circle to make it 5-3.

But Ottawa would score two quick goals at the end of the second frame to reestablish a four-goal advantage. Havlat unleashed a wrist shot that beat Noronen glove-side low from the left circle to make it 6-3 and Alfredsson made it 7-3 a minute and a half later after beating Noronen high to the glove-side on a breakaway.

Alfredsson tallied three more third-period goals, the second of which came from Heatley on a two-on-one break, to make it 9-3. After Buffalo got a goal back while on the power play with 5:59 remaining in the third period when Daniel Briere one-timed a shot past Emery to make it 9-4, Alfredsson scored on his second breakaway of the game with four minutes left to cap the scoring.

Game Notes

Former Sabres' netminder Dominik Hasek, who did not play, made his home debut for the Senators on October 8th, turned aside 35 shots for his 64th career shutout in a 5-0 win over the Sabres. The 40-year-old Hasek had a team-record 55 shutouts with Buffalo, and posted his second in an Ottawa uniform on Saturday in an 8-0 win at Toronto. He moved within one shutout of Patrick Roy for 13th on the NHL's all-time list (66)...The Senators improved to 5-1-0 on the road this season, while the Sabres fell to 4-2-0 at home...Heatley extended his team record by posting a point in his 11th straight game to start the season. He has tallied 10 goals and 11 assists during the tear...Biron was pulled with 7:27 gone in the first period after giving up three goals on six shots...Kotalik has six goals in his last six games...Spezza's four assists were a career high...Ryan Miller did not play due to a thumb injury suffered in the morning skate...It was the first time Buffalo allowed two four-goal scorers in the same game...The 10 goals allowed at home was a new franchise high. The Sabres lost 11-2 at Montreal in 1970...Alfredsson and Havlat both recorded natural hat tricks.