Shane Pinto scored twice, including the overtime winner, to propel the Ottawa Senators to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.
Pinto intercepted a pass from Parker Kelly in Colorado’s zone and scored on a wrist shot at 2:08 of overtime.
Tim Stutzle and Drake Batherson also scored, and Linus Ullmark made 25 saves for the Senators, who have won three of their last four games.
Gabriel Landeskog scored his third goal in two games, and Scott Wedgewood made 22 saves for the Avalanche, who had won two straight.
Colorado stars Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar exited the game in the second period. Makar returned to the ice with 9:16 remaining but quickly headed to the locker room. MacKinnon collided with Artem Zub on a 4-on-3 Avalanche power play 57 seconds later and fell to the ice. Neither player returned for the third period. The team announced both players sustained lower-body injuries.
Pinto put the Senators ahead 1-0 at 7:11 of the first period. The center blocked a shot by Brent Burns in the defensive zone, then raced up the ice and scored on a wrist shot.
Stutzle made it 2-0 at 13:13. Makar fumbled the puck behind Colorado’s net, and Fabian Zetterlund scooped it up and fed Stutzle, who scored on a backhand shot with Wedgewood out of position.
Artturi Lehkonen cut the deficit in half at 18:04 of the second period. The Avalanche were on the power play when Nazem Kadri set up Lehkonen through traffic for a close-range snap shot.
Kelly scored a short-handed goal at 3:54 of the third period, breaking up the ice for a wrist shot to tie the score at 2.
Landeskog gave the Avalanche their first lead at 10:03. Brock Nelson delivered a cross-ice pass on the power play, and Landeskog scored on a snap shot through traffic.
Batherson tied it at 3 at 15:39. Jordan Spence collected a loose puck in front of Wedgewood and set up Batherson for a wrist shot.
–Field Level Media
