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Coach Troy Mann told the players coming into this tournament that will continue Saturday night against the Montreal Canadiens that the best way to make a positive impact was to have success, and there won’t be any complaints about this performance. The Senators took the play to the Jets in every department.

“We did a lot of good things here in the last couple of days to put some structure in, and when you’ve got a lot of returning players that know how we were trying to play last year it certainly helps,” said Mann. “The guys have been great the last two days and I thought there was some good execution from what we’ve been talking about the last two days.”

The Senators took control in the second when they pounced on the Jets with six unanswered goals. Brown gave the club a 7-1 lead late when Ottawa scored six unanswered goals, with Davidsson, Beaudin, Abramov, Brannstrom and Formenton also chipping in. Brannstrom’s was a beauty when he one-timed a pass at the point by Carlson on the power play.

It was Formenton who got the party started. Coming out of the box after serving a cross-checking penalty, he took a pass from Kastelic, broke in alone and beat Carlson stick side only 53 seconds into the second.

While the Jets opened the scoring at 8:21 of the first when James Phelan beat Gustavsson from in front, it was a great second effort by Kelly that tied it up for Ottawa at 10:30. After being taken down skating into the Winnipeg zone, Kelly was able to slide the puck along the ice to beat Carlson on the glove side.