OTTAWA — Mike Hoffman will be red-hot when he makes his return to Ottawa Womens Steven Stamkos Jersey , where he spent the first eight years of his career.But his Florida Panthers aren’t entering Monday’s game.Hoffman, who had more than 22 goals in each of his last four seasons with the Senators, was dealt away in the summer after his spouse became involved in a ugly rift with the wife of captain Erik Karlsson. Hoffman was also singled out by Senators GM Pierre Dorion as one of the reasons team dressing room was “broken”.Article continues below ...After failing to pick up a point in his first two games with the Panthers, Hoffman is now riding a franchise record 15-game point scoring streak during with he has eight goals and 10 assists. Despite his efforts, the Panthers (7-7-3) continue to play below expectations and have lost their last two games.“We’re doing a lot of good things,” defenseman Keith Yandle told the Miami Herald after Saturday’s 4-2 loss to the New York Rangers, which saw the Panthers finish ahead 41-24 on the shots clock.“If you’re out-shooting teams, out-chancing teams, that’s the first step,” Hoffman told the Miami Herald. “The second is to clean up the (defensive zone) a little bit. Limit their chances and the quality of scoring chances we give up.”Hoffman had two assists when the Panthers beat the Senators 5-1 in Florida on Nov. 11. Before that game he made it clear he didn’t want to get into the remarks made by Dorion or the incident with the Karlssons, and that is not likely to change when he arrives in Ottawa.The Senators (9-8-3) have found a way to manufacture offense despite the loss of Hoffman and Karlsson. They are tied with the Toronto Maple Leafs for second in the goals scored category with 70. They have won their last two games, including Saturday’s 6-4 battle with the Pittsburgh Penguins.“We’ve been kind of at-.500, below-.500 Tyler Johnson Jersey , at-.500, below-.500 for a while now, and to make that break through to get above, we can’t take it for granted now,” said Senators center Matt Duchene, who surpassed the 500-point mark in his career on Saturday with two goals and an assist. “We’ve got to keep pushing, Next game is a big one.”The Senators have had most of their success at home, where they are 7-3-2.“We’re playing well at home,” Duchene said. “We obviously want to be a little better on the road, but the more we win here, the more fans we’re going to get, and the better are atmosphere is going to be in here. Tonight was outstanding. Our fans really brought it tonight.”Rookies Brady Tkachuk, Colin White and now call up Drake Batherson are playing significant roles in a Senators rebuild that has gone better than expected. Second-year defenseman Thomas Chabot Victor Hedman Jersey , who has 23 points in 20 games, has been very good in replacing Karlsson as the Senators back end leader.“The guys are playing above and beyond their years,” said Craig Anderson, who became the first goalie to top the 1000-minute mark on Saturday. TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs scored in bunches through seven games. The St. Louis Blues showed that goals don’t always come that easily.Ryan O’Reilly scored his first goal with St. Louis, and Jake Allen made 22 saves as the Blues beat the Maple Leafs 4-1 on Saturday night.Robert Bortuzzo, Zach Sanford and Ivan Barbashev also scored, and David Perron added two assists for St. Louis, which picked up its second victory in seven games this season.Morgan Rielly scored for Toronto. Frederik Andersen stopped 21 of 24 shots as the Leafs dropped consecutive games after five straight wins.“We scored early, we scored easy, it was pretty loose and everything was great,” Leafs head coach Mike Babcock said. “Now we’re finding out it’s the NHL, it’s hard to score, teams compete hard on you Yanni Gourde Jersey , teams adjust and they’re going to play you hard. We’ve got to get our mojo back by going to work and we’ll do that.“Not good enough.”Toronto had scored an NHL-high 33 goals in seven games to open the season. But the Maple Leafs were shut out by the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday and were scoreless in two periods against the Blues, going 116 minutes 37 seconds without a goal until Rielly cut the deficit to 3-1 early in the third.“There have been some adjustments by our opponents,” said Toronto center John Tavares, who finished with two shot attempts. “We have to stick to what we do well and can’t get away from it.“We know teams are going to adjust and teams are going to try and make it tough on us.”The game marked the return of center Tyler Bozak, who left for St. Louis in free agency this summer after nine seasons with the Leafs.The Blues came into the game with just one win in their first six games after an offseason roster overhaul that saw Bozak, O’Reilly, Perron and Pat Maroon brought in. St. Louis was convinced it was close to putting things together, despite early season struggles.After a scoreless first period, St. Louis went ahead at 4:45 of the second when Bortuzzo’s point shot went off the stick of Toronto defenseman Travis Dermott and bounced past Andersen.Andersen made a nice stop on Brayden Schenn later in the period, but could do nothing on Sanford’s high shot at 13:05 that made it 2-0.O’Reilly, picked up in a blockbuster trade with the Buffalo Sabres in the offseason, then scored his first for St. Louis at 16:37, when he was left alone in front Auston Matthews Jersey , took a pass from Vladimir Tarasenko and beat Andersen as a Leafs penalty expired.“That looked a lot more like the St. Louis Blues,” said head coach Mike Yeo, whose team snapped a three-game slide. “The guys came out (and) gave us a great response.”The Leafs, who were outshot by the Blues 13-8 through the first 40 minutes, had 1:32 of a power play to start the third. But Nazem Kadri’s shot in tight hit Allen and then the post.Rielly, who came in leading NHL defensemen in scoring with 10 points, scored at 4:22 of the third when his shot from the slot squeezed through Allen for his fourth.The Leafs’ top-ranked power play went to work again with 7:10 left in regulation, but Allen stopped Patrick Marleau on the doorstep before Toronto’s Andreas Johnsson went off for holding the stick with seven seconds left in the man advantage.The Leafs pulled Andersen with just over three minutes remaining, and a Jaden Schwartz penalty made for a 6-on-4 advantage. But Allen and the Blues hung tough before Barbashev scored into an empty net with 1:43 remaining as Toronto fell to 2-3-0 at home.NOTES: Bozak was honored during the game’s first television timeout with a video montage from the 32-year-old’s time in Toronto. … St. Louis defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, a veteran of 1,112 NHL games, was a healthy scratch for the first time in his 16-year career.UP NEXTToronto: At Winnipeg on Wednesday.St. Louis: At Winnipeg on Monday.