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The Ottawa Senators are looking to find some consistency as they travel to Tampa Bay Thursday night, with the Lightning hoping to break out of their scoring slump of their own. The Senators snapped a two-game slide on Tuesday with a 4-2 win over the Florida Panthers. They allowed the first two goals of the game, both on Panther power plays, before getting first-period goals from Joe Corvo and Erik Condra to even things up. Colin Greening had the go-ahead goal with 43 seconds remaining in the second period and Bobby Ryan added a third-period tally. Though Ottawa won for just the third time in its past nine games, it was a win that head coach Paul MacLean is hoping his team can build on. "Were showing signs of being consistent," he said. Craig Anderson made 30 saves and Clarke MacArthur had two assists to give him 10 points over his last eight games. The win improved Anderson to just 7-8-2 with a 3.42 goals against average this season, but he is 6-2-2 with a 1.42 GAA and three shutouts lifetime versus the Lightning. The Bolts won two of three versus the Senators last season -- winning both meetings in Tampa -- but the Sens have still won seven of the last 10 encounters overall. The Lightning have been shut out in back-to-back games and in three of their last five. Two of those have come by 1-0 decisions, including Tuesdays setback to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Tampa Bay failed to score against the Blue Jackets Sergei Bobrovsky, who left with 15:47 to play in the game, or Curtis McElhinney. The duo combined to stop 26 shots. "If youre not frustrated, something is wrong with you right now," said Martin St. Louis, who was robbed by McElhinney on a late chance. The Lightning have lost six of their last eight games overall and five in a row on the road. They are 4-5-1 since star center Steven Stamkos broke his leg. Tampa Bay, which was coming off a 3-0 loss at home to Pittsburgh last Friday, has not scored since Tyler Johnsons empty-net tally with 34 seconds left in a 4-2 win over Philadelphia last Friday. It has not scored against an opposing netminder since Victor Hedmans tally five minutes into the third period versus the Flyers. "If its not off the rush, were done," St. Louis said. "We have to be able to sustain offensive pressure." Ben Bishop made 20 saves versus the Blue Jackets and could face his former club tonight. Bishops only other meeting versus the Senators came on April 9 of last season, six days after he was traded to the Lightning by Ottawa for Cory Conacher and a draft pick. Bishop stopped 31-of-33 shots faced in the win. Kahale Warring Jersey . - Kyle Wood and Barclay Goodrow scored second period power-play goals to provide all of the scoring for the North Bay Battalion in a 2-0 victory over the Erie Otters in Ontario Hockey League action on Thursday. 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The New York Rangers centre had a goal and two assists in a 4-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators ending a 13-game goal-scoring drought.PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Cam Heyward can rattle the list off in seconds.The names of the 10 defensive linemen taken ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers end in the first round of 2011 NFL draft come to mind so quickly its as if Heyward is pointing out faces in a family picture.Marcell Dareus. J.J. Watt. Robert Quinn. Ryan Kerrigan. On and on it goes. Some are well known. Some are not. All of them, however, are remembered by the player who is constantly searching for that little extra motivation. In the end, he knows those little slights might make all the difference.Talent isnt always going to win, Heyward said. Youve got to have heart. Youve got to be smart. Youve got to be ready.Something the fourth-year veteran is embracing, in both victory and defeat.As the mentors who took Heyward under their wing a€” Aaron Smith, Chris Hoke, Casey Hampton chief among them a€” have vanished to retirement, Heyward has made it a point to become the spokesman for a team still searching for an identity a month into the season. Its what leaders do.When the Steelers (2-2) allowed lowly Tampa Bay to rip off 10 fourth-quarter points in a 27-24 victory last Sunday, Heyward dutifully stood at his locker and took responsibility for the mistakes. Some of them a€” like the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty he received for arguing with an official a€” were his fault. Others, like the other 12 flags the Steelers drew, were not.While his teammates dressed quietly in stunned silence, Heyward spoke evenly, trying to set a tone for the road ahead starting Sunday at Jacksonville (0-4).Dont count us out yet, he said. It happens. They made the plays at the end. Youve got to give them credit. Weve got to grow from this. Hopefully this will never happen again.Heyward understands hes at the point in his career where his production needs to start meeting his potential. The son of longtime NFL running back Craig Heyward shares his fathers relentlessness and love for the game. And at 6-foot-5 and 290-pounds, hes a presence at the line of scrimmage. Hes not as fast as Watt or as massive ad Dareus, but Heyward makes up for any physical shortcomings by using the massive head a€” another thing he inherited from his dad a€” stuffed inside his helmet.The proof of Heywards evolution is obvious beyond the fact he already has two sacks, a pace that would put him well ahead of the five he registered last year. Defensive line coach John Mitchell gives his players a written quiz each week. The test breaks down everything from formations to tendencies. Each player ggets a grade.ddddddddddddMost weeks Heyward is among those with the top marks.Its not a coincidence.A lot of guys have very good book sense but no football sense and vice versa, Mitchell said. Cam is a guy thats smart. He knows whats going on on the field.A snapshot from Pittsburghs season-opening win over Cleveland provided proof.Tied at 27 late in the fourth quarter, the Browns had the ball with a chance to win it. It never happened, not after the drive began with Heyward enveloping Cleveland quarterback Brian Hoyer for a sack. The Browns punted three plays later, giving Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger just enough time to win it.The sack was the byproduct of several things: great coverage by linebacker Ryan Shazier on Hoyers primary target; even better coverage by the rest of the secondary as Hoyer looked for options; and Heywards ability to recognize the play call. He ducked to the inside at the snap then bowled over an offensive lineman before wrapping his massive arms around Hoyers No. 6 jersey.He can look at tape and dissect the things that are going to go on around him, Mitchell said. On that play at the end of the Cleveland game, its a formation he had seen and talked about. Dick (LeBeau) had them in a great defence and he was able to make the play.Yet Heyward refuses to single himself out. The Steelers have won when he hasnt played well. They have lost when he has. Whatever his stat line looks like at the end of the fourth quarter, hes still more concerned about the number on the scoreboard.Its a lesson he learned from his father, who spent most of his 11-year career paving the way for smaller, faster backs. Its sometimes anonymous work, but work that must be done. Craig Heyward provided his son with a model that Cam has tried to follow during a career that is starting to take flight.The Steelers have already picked up his option for next season with the intent of making him a cornerstone through the end of the decade and beyond. Thats just fine with him.I would love to be here, he said. I know they like to keep their players ... to do that Ive got to take care of business on the field and take care of my business off the field.NOTES: OG Ramon Foster (ankle) practiced Wednesday and said he definitely would play this week. Foster missed the past two games after being injured at Baltimore in Week 2. . WR Martavis Bryant (illness), OLB James Harrison (illness) and ILB Ryan Shazier (knee) did not practice.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '