TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -Coiming off an embarrassing loss to Carolina, Tampa Bay coach Rick Tocchet asked his team to play with more toughness and pride.

The Lightning listened - at the Ottawa Senators' expense.

Teddy Purcell scored in the third round of a shootout to give Tampa Bay a 4-3 victory over Ottawa on Thursday night.

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``There was a lot of passion,' Tocchet said. ``I like the passion, but it was just undisciplined. Weve got a lot of work to do.'

Purcell and Martin St. Louis scored first-period goals, and Steven Stamkos added his 48th goal of the season early in the second on a power play to make it 3-0.

Ottawa's Nick Foligno beat Lightning goalie Mike Smith on a power play to cut it to 3-1 midway through the second. Jason Speeza added a power-play goal with 1:18 left in the second, and Mike Fisher tied it with another power-play goal early in the third.

Fisher took a pass from Daniel Alfredsson in the slot and easily shot it past Lightning goalie Mike Smith.

``It was nice to see us battle back in a game that doesn't mean anything for us,' Alfredsson said. ``We showed some character and we had enough chances to win it.'

Smith made 35 saves for the Lightning, including a stop on a point-blank shot from Ottawa's Peter Regin with a minute left in regulation.

In the shootout Elliott was able to stop shots from Stamkos and St. Louis but Purcell executed a deke and slipped a backhander into the goal. Fisher had a chance to send the shootout into a fourth round, but his shot went high and wide.

NOTES: Smith and Ottawa forward Chris Neil exchanged blows after Neil tripped him. Both players received double minors. ``I like to muck it up out there,' Smith said. ``I don't like to lose and I don't like to get knocked down either.' ... Lightning forward Andrej Maszaros was hit in the throat with a slap shot in the second period and quickly left the ice. He returned in the third period.