Hockey was the last thing most players were thinking about Monday night.

"It was a one-period lapse and in the NHL that's enough to kill you. We didn't bury the ones that could have hurt when it was time and they got theirs and that hurt us," Senators coach Guy Boucher said.

The development came two days after the newspaper said it would not take down a secretly recorded video of several Senators players from an Uber vehicle in Arizona, despite a legal notice insisting that leaving it online violates provincial privacy laws.