Already without winger Bobby Ryan, who could be out up to six weeks with a broken finger, the Senators finished without winger Mike Hoffman, who went to the dressing room with 2:55 in the first, didn’t return after suffering a lower body injury and the club had 11 forwards dressed.

Mark Stone, who had opened the scoring for Ottawa, exited with just over 12 minutes left in the third after taking a hit to the head from Winnipeg’s Jacob Trouba. He was only given two minutes for an illegal check to the head but coach Guy Boucher was sideways Trouba wasn’t given a five-minute major.

Winger Tommy Wingels also departed late in the third after getting hit by Winnipeg’s Dustin Byfuglien.

Boucher said the news wasn’t good on any of them.

“Tough day with the loss of Bobby and then we lost another bunch of guys. At some point I felt, there was nobody on the bench,” said a frustrated Boucher. “I can give you an update _ it doesn’t look good. We have to wait until tomorrow to be clear and precise about all these guys.

“Right now, we could be losing quite a few guys ... It looks like a disaster. We’ll see tomorrow and maybe the disaster is not as bad as we think but you’ve got to be ready for anything.”

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Pageau thought he tied it at 19:56 and was surprised it wasn’t a goal.

“From my angle, I pushed the puck and my full blade was in the net, I pushed the puck with my blade. It’s hard. I guess they have better cameras. It was inconclusive so they couldn’t find the puck but obviously I thought the puck was in for sure. It could have gotten us a point,” Pageau said.