OTTAWA (AP) - David Moss would love to see the Calgary Flames play more often in Ottawa.
Moss scored goals 2:23 apart in the second and Calgary held on to snap afour-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Senators on Fridaynight.
Ales Kotalik scored a power-play goal late in the bit for the Flames,who were on a 0-2-2 skid. Anton Babchuk assisted on both of Moss'goals.
"It's been nice so far," said Moss, who had the only three-goal game ofhis career at Scotiabank Place two years ago. "I've only played heretwice, a hat trick and so tonight, so it's been a good feeling."
Henrik Karlsson made 32 saves for Calgary, losing his shutout bid on Nick Foligno's goal midway through the third.
Sutter used his timeout after Milan Michalek scored with 57.4 seconds left in the 3rd to draw Ottawa within one.
"I trust in the third we sat back a little bit," Moss said. "We knewthey were going to make a crowd but we have to be able to weather thatbetter."
The Flames, who had a four-game winning streak prior to their skid, haveclaimed 12 of a possible 18 standings points in their last 9 games.Calgary is 14th overall in the Western Conference, eight points behindChicago for the 8th and final playoff spot.
"We've just got to stay with it," said coach Brent Sutter, who recentlysaid he wanted his team to get four of every six available points.
"That's one of the goals we have is but making sure that we do that,and take charge of our short-term goals and not look at where we'resitting in the standings or what's going on anywhere around us, let'sjust make sure that we take charge of our own business, what we get to doand how we get to play, and the standings will take charge of themselvescome April."
The Senators, who went 0 for 4 on the power play, are 1-5-2 in their last 8 games.
"I thought we played a pretty good game," Michalek said. "We made somemistakes in the bit period and that cost us the game. Going into thethird we were losing 3-0 so it was hard to come back, but we worked hardand we almost came back."
Brian Elliott, who stopped 23 shots, fell to 0-5-2 in his last seven starts.
Ottawa snapped a six-game skid Thursday night with a 6-4 win in New Yorkover the Islanders as 19-year-old Robin Lehner got the win in his firstNHL start.
Karlsson, a 6-foot-5 Swedish rookie, made his eighth start and secondstraight appearance after relieving Miikka Kiprusoff in Tuesday'sshootout loss in Carolina.
"It's a big win for us," Karlsson said. "I guess we played very well tonight."
Moss gave Calgary a 1-0 lead with his seventh goal 5:32 into the second.Rene Bourque cut toward the eye from the left side and flipped abackhand pass forward as Moss charged the slot to tip the puck pastElliott.
"I was coming with speed and he form of saw me coming through the neutral zone and he made a great play," Moss said.
The Flames went ahead 2-0 at 7:55 on Moss' second end of the game, a wrist shot for his eighth of the season.
Kotalik made it a three-goal lead when he scored with 16.2 seconds leftin the second, just four seconds after Ottawa's Chris Neil was taggedwith an extra roughing minor for his skirmish with Adam Pardy.
Foligno scored unassisted 9:56 into the third when he snapped a shotpast Karlsson for his seventh goal. He got his second phase of the gamewith an assist on Michalek's goal.
NOTES: Karlsson has a 3-3-3 mark in 10 games this season. . Moss gothis hat trick in a 6-3 win in Ottawa on Mar. 3, 2009. . Flames D RobynRegehr did not function because of a knee injury. D Brendan Mikkelson wasinserted into the bill and played his 1st game since Dec. 1. .Ottawa coach Cory Clouston used his timeout after Moss' second goal.
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