The one thing DJ Smith prides himself on is the Ottawa Senators work ethic, but Tuesday night the head coach was far from impressed.

After coughing up a 2-0 first period lead Smith felt his team got outworked, which didn’t sit well with him.

“Ultimately I felt we had too many passengers (Tuesday).”

The Chicago Blackhawks scored three unanswered goals, including Jonathan Toews’s overtime winner, to take a 3-2 win.

A pair of goals by Dominik Kubalik, who now has seven in his last five games, tied the game 2-2 early in the third after the Blackhawks (21-20-6) trailed 2-0 early.

“We kind of fell asleep off the faceoff and they got a rush goal off a tough change,” said Chicago head coach Jeremy Colliton. “The last 50 minutes or so we stuck with it. We were patient and the second period we really used it to get back in the game. It was a big two points for us.”

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