OTTAWA - Ryan Miller took full responsibility for the Vancouver Canucks' 3-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators Thursday night.

Miller was visibly dejected post-game and felt his teammates deserved better after he was beaten by Chris Wideman's wrister from just inside the blue line at 18:05 of the third as a Senators power play was expiring.

The Canucks goaltender, who faced made 22 saves, was honest when asked about the goal.

"I let the guys down with that last one," said Miller. "You've always got to stay within striking distance and I just kind of blew it. That's more the difference. You always have to have a chance at the end and maybe get to overtime. It's a pretty critical error on my part.

"Not a good goal."

Miller said he saw the shot, but that it hit the top part of the pocket on his glove hand.

"That game's right there," added Miller. "I thought we played a good game. I kind of blew it."

The win was the Senators' first in regulation on home ice.

Bobby Ryan and Erik Karlsson also scored for the Senators (8-5-3), who snapped a two-game losing streak with the victory. Andrew Hammond made 33 saves in his fourth start of the season.

Hammond was just as critical of his own play despite posting the victory.

"It was a game that I didn't really feel like I had my best," he said. "When you're at that point you kind of have to find different ways to get something out of it and fortunately we were able to get the extra one that ended up mattering and we got the win in the end.

"I just felt like I was fighting the puck most of the night."

Sven Baertschi and Alexander Edler scored for the Canucks (7-5-5), who were playing the fourth of a seven-game road trip (1-2-1).

This was the first of a five-game homestand for the Senators, who improved to 3-3-2 on home ice. Their first two wins came by way of the shootout.

"I thought we played real well in the first and then had a letdown in the second and gave up too many opportunities," said Kyle Turris. "We came back with a strong third and I thought we played pretty well."

The Senators had one of its better third periods of late and were able to hold off the Canucks in front of a sellout crowd of 19,229.

With Ottawa leading 3-1, Edler scored on the power play with 23.9 seconds remaining to make it a one-goal game.

The Senators were outshot 19-8 in the second period, but came out with a 2-1 lead.

"Second period they were really pushing hard and they were creating a lot of good scoring chances," said Karlsson. "(Hammond) made some good key saves for us and not that we expect that from him every night, but he's been playing really good for us, same as (Anderson), and that's what you're going to need sometimes when you play other good teams."

Karlsson, with his second in as many games, gave Ottawa the lead as he jumped into the play and beat Miller through the legs at the 14-minute mark of the period.

Hammond was the difference in the period as he made a number of key saves to keep the game tied before Karlsson's goal.

Vancouver's Radim Vrbata could only shake his head as he recalled the second period.

"Seems like the story of the season so far for us," said Vrbata. "Overall I don't think we played that bad, but we're not making the difference on the power play or whatever, where you could get that goal that gets you over the hump and that's the story so far this year."

Vancouver opened the scoring at the seven-minute mark of the first as the puck bounced in off Baertschi's skate. Ottawa tied things up midway through the period with a power-play goal as Ryan scored his sixth of the season.

Notes: D Patrick Wiercioch and LW Shane Prince were healthy scratches for Ottawa. The Senators announced D Chris Phillips (back) has started skating and LW Clarke MacArthur (concussion) has started working out. There remains no timetable for either's return.