Ottawa Senators Beat Tampa Bay 5-4, Handing Lightning Their First Loss

For Ottawa Senator followers up to now, afternoon video games have been must-see hockey.

On Monday afternoon, the Senators gained an 8-7 additional time traditional over the Los Angeles Kings. 5 days later, it was extra matinee insanity because the Senators beat the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday, 5-4.

Drake Batherson led the best way for Ottawa with two objectives and an help. Claude Giroux and Jake Sanderson every arrange two objectives apiece. The Lightning outshot Ottawa 29-28 on the day.

Noah Gregor’s slick shorthanded objective on a two-on-one with Shane Pinto proved to be the distinction within the sport.

“Yeah, it felt nice,” Gregor informed TSN 1200 radio after the sport. “You realize, I assumed the penalty kill was good all evening tonight. After which particularly in direction of the top there once we needed to kill one off. There have been some enormous blocks, after which me and (Shane Pinto) have been in a position to get rush, and I bought a chance. It is at all times good to see it go in.”

Josh Norris and Brady Tkachuk scored the opposite Ottawa objectives.

The Senators bought some luck proper out of the gate, getting a 5-on-3 simply over a minute into the sport. Tampa Bay centre Anthony Cirelli took a tripping penalty 30 seconds in, adopted by Janis Moser’s puck-over-glass penalty 39 seconds later.

After 40 seconds of pointless passing across the perimeter, Claude Giroux lastly fed it to Drake Batherson, who wired dwelling a one-timer to provide Ottawa the 1-0 lead.

Halfway by means of the primary, at even power, Giroux supplied service once more. He grabbed a go from Batherson on the blue line, and as he headed for the close to put up, he noticed Josh Norris arriving late. Giroux threaded the puck by means of Nikita Kucherov’s skates proper to Norris, who beat Andrei Vasilevskiy low to the glove facet.

The 2 golf equipment erupted for a five-goal second interval.

Tampa Bay responded early after a slap shot from the purpose hit Shane Pinto on the skate. Pinto briefly went down, and that gave Nikita Kucherov the room he wanted to arrange store in his workplace on the best facet. His one-timer lower the Sens’ result in 2-1.

Halfway by means of the second, former Senator Nick Paul tied it at 2, cashing in on a rebound after a really gentle defensive effort by Ottawa. However Batherson responded lower than three minutes later, intercepting a clearing try, outwaiting Vasilevskiy and tucking the puck in from a foul angle.

Within the remaining couple of minutes of the body, Tampa tied it once more. Jacob Bernard-Docker made an unsightly five-foot outlet go to Zack MacEwen. Victor Hedman was proper on prime of MacEwen who was tripped up by Hedman’s skate. The puck ended up again out in entrance, the place Jake Guenztel swatted in his first of the 12 months.

However Brady Tkachuk restored the lead on the facility play at 18:56, cramming dwelling a rebound with the puck barely crossing the road.

Lower than 5 minutes into the third, the Senators needed to battle off their very own 5-on-3. Not solely did they kill it off, however Shane Pinto and Noah Gregor teamed up on a shorthanded objective to provide the Sens a 5-3 lead and a bit of respiratory room.

The respiratory room was rapidly extinguished once more by gentle defence. Mitchell Chaffee cruised to the slot with Michael Amadio and Tim Stutzle in place to defend. Neither took his stick away, and Chaffee redirected a centring go previous Anton Forsberg, who got here off his put up on the incorrect time.

However Forsberg made up for that with a few large saves within the dying moments, together with one on one other Kucherov one-timer within the remaining minute.

The Sens improved to 3-2 within the younger season, whereas the Lightning fell to 3-1. Ottawa begins a three-game highway journey on Tuesday, making its first go to to Salt Lake Metropolis.