They took a 1-0 lead late in the first period when Tyler Bozak's wrist shot got past Ottawa goalie Craig Anderson. Anderson was particularly sharp in the opening period holding the Senators close, and made 33 saves in total.
"It's a huge confidence lift when the coach comes to you and says you weren't very good the night before, we need more out of you, and you respond," Anderson told reporters.
"It's a huge emotional lift knowing that he's got confidence in me and that makes my confidence go higher and higher."
Ottawa defenseman Sergei Gonchar tied the score midway through the second period and Ottawa capitalized on a two-man advantage to take the lead.
Bozak and Philippe Dupuis were whistled for penalties two seconds apart giving the Senators a long two-man advantage and Foligno then found a sea m between the Maple Leafs defenders, took a perfect breakaway pass from Erik Karlsson and scored with a low shot past Toronto netminder Ben Scrivens.
"Basically we were looking at killing off two minutes of 5-on-3," Leafs coach Ron Wilson said. "That's a pretty difficult task. We didn't do it."
Zack Smith extended the Senators lead to 3-1 in the opening minute of the third period but Joffrey Lupul got a goal back for the Leafs with less than three minutes to play.
Foligno then relieved the pressure on the Senators' net with an empty net goal to make it 4-2.
Milan Michalek added another empty-netter to round out the scoring.
"I thought that we had spurts where we played our game and we had spurts where we got away from it," said Leafs defenseman John-Michael Liles.
"In this league it doesn't matter if it's back-to-back, it doesn't matter where a team is in the standings, you have to stick to your game. If you get away from it, teams take advantage."
Prior to the game the NHL honored the 2012 Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Mark Howe, and former Maple Leafs, Joe Nieuwendyk, Ed Belfour and Doug Gilmour in an on-ice ceremony.
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