Our Clients:

Field Level Media - Professional sports content solutions | FLM

Dec 14, 2024 10:37 pm

Brady Tkachuk scores in OT to lift Senators past Penguins

Ottawa Senators

Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk fired in the overtime game-winner as the Senators won their season-high third straight game, edging the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Saturday night.

In the teams’ fourth straight overtime match in Ottawa, Tkachuk took a stretch pass from Jake Sanderson, toe-dragged his way by defenseman Erik Karlsson and beat goaltender Tristan Jarry (28 saves) for his club-best 15th goal as the Senators improved to 3-2 in overtime while Pittsburgh fell to 4-5.

Thomas Chabot had a goal and an assist and Drake Batherson netted his 13th as the Senators moved to 5-1-1 in their past seven matches.

After stopping 118 of 121 shots in four straight wins, including a 32-save shutout Friday at the Carolina Hurricanes, Linus Ullmark was back in goal on the back-to-back and recorded 25 saves for his fifth straight victory.

Pittsburgh’s Blake Lizotte scored for the fifth time in nine games, while Kris Letang hit the net.

Defenseman Marcus Pettersson was injured late in the first period after being checked awkwardly into the boards and did not return.

In the first period, Ottawa scored with its fourth shot when Claude Giroux, alone in the low slot, gathered a rebound and skated around Jarry’s net, bringing the goalie out of position. Giroux then fed Chabot, who zipped home his second tally at 7:34.

Ullmark kept the visitors off the board in the Penguins’ promising two-shot sequence at the 10-minute mark — first denying Michael Bunting on a breakaway, then making a miraculous stick save on Karlsson’s rebound shot toward the open cage.

Following an NHL-high nine-goal outburst Thursday in a win in Montreal, Pittsburgh produced just five shots.

Jarry was at his best in the second after Lizotte went off for unsportsmanlike conduct. On the Ottawa man advantage, the netminder made five saves to keep Pittsburgh down by just one.

However, Ullmark matched Jarry’s efforts by denying Sidney Crosby’s chip-in attempt at the far post with 76 seconds left in the frame.

Lizotte found redemption early in the third when he backhanded in a rebound started by Matt Grzelcyk’s long shot as Pittsburgh’s fourth line leveled the match.

In a battle in front of Jarry in the third, Batherson broke the 1-all match after Chabot sent a pass across that caromed in off the winger’s skate at 6:38, but Letang floated in his seventh tally six minutes later to knot it again and lead to overtime.

–Field Level Media

You may also like

Napheesa Collier
Feb 15, 2025 1:14 am

Napheesa Collier claims Unrivaled one-on-one title

Napheesa Collier clinched the Unrivaled one-on-one tournament in a most fitting fashion. The forward, who is the reigning WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, shut out Washington Mystics forward Aaliyah…

dodgers, ohtani, sits
Feb 15, 2025 12:36 am

Dodgers president envisions 5-man rotation for start of season

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ plan to use a six-man rotation this season is on hold until one of the half-dozen, star right-hander Shohei Ohtani, returns to the mound in May,…

Jordan Woodruff
Feb 14, 2025 11:11 pm

NTMR, Timeless part of 4-way tie atop OCS NA Stage 1

NTMR and Timeless are among four teams tied atop the standings for the Overwatch Champions Series’ North American Stage 1 after opening Week 3 with victories on Friday. NTMR swept…

More News News

Napheesa Collier
Feb 15, 2025 1:14 am

Napheesa Collier claims Unrivaled one-on-one title

Napheesa Collier clinched the Unrivaled one-on-one tournament in a most fitting fashion. The forward, who is the reigning WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, shut out Washington Mystics forward Aaliyah…

dodgers, ohtani, sits
Feb 15, 2025 12:36 am

Dodgers president envisions 5-man rotation for start of season

Jordan Woodruff
Feb 14, 2025 11:11 pm

NTMR, Timeless part of 4-way tie atop OCS NA Stage 1

Roddy Gayle
Feb 14, 2025 10:50 pm

Ohio State eyes role as disrupter vs. No. 20 Michigan

UCLA, Indiana
Feb 14, 2025 10:46 pm

UCLA staves off Indiana’s comeback attempt

Read all
fb-post
advertisment
title-icon

Upcoming events

See all odds