Category: HOCKEY

OTTAWA, ON — Mason McTavish scored twice against his hometown team to help the Anaheim Ducks beat the Ottawa Senators 5-1 on Thursday night.

The 21-year-old McTavish grew up in nearby Carp, Ontario. He has 15 goals this season, his third with the Ducks.

Frank Vatrano, Pavel Mintyukov and Cam Fowler also scored for Anaheim. The Ducks rebounded from a 5-0 loss in Montreal on Tuesday night.

John Gibson stopped all 15 shots he faced through two periods before leaving because of an upper-body injury. Lukas Dostal made 18 saves in he third period.

Gibson was run over by Senators forward Drake Batherson and Ducks defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin early in the second period and was knocked over a second time later in the frame.

Claude Giroux scored for Ottawa and Joonas Korpisalo made 15 saves. The Senators had won four in a row.

OTTAWA, ON — Brady Tkachuk recorded the second hat trick of his career to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 6-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.

Tkachuk scored twice on the power play, and Claude Giroux added a short-handed goal and two assists as Ottawa won its fourth straight. Ridly Greig and Erik Brannstrom also scored. Anton Forsberg made 37 saves.

Dmitri Voronkov, Boone Jenner and Jack Roslovic scored for the Blue Jackets. Daniil Tarasov stopped 24 of 29 shots.

The Blue Jackets opened the scoring with a shot by Kent Johnson that deflected twice. Johnson’s centering pass hit Voronkov in the skate and then deflected off the skate of Senators’ defenseman Jacob Bernard-Docker and past Forsberg.

Tkachuk scored twice in a 48-second span, including one on the power play. His first came at 9:48 when Josh Norris fed him the puck at the side of a wide-open net. The second, at 10:36, came when Tkachuk scoring on his own rebound.

The Senators then added a short-handed goal when Giroux scored into the top corner of the net at 14:46 for a 3-1 lead. They appeared to go up 4-1 just 25 seconds later, but after a coach’s challenge, goaltender interference called.

In the second period each team scored twice. Grieg and Tkachuk sandwiched their goals around scores by Jenner and Roslovic.

Grieg gave the Senators a 4-1 lead at 5:37. Columbus scored twice, at 10:49 and 13:54. Tkachuk completed his hat trick at 16:48 on the power play and the Senators took a 5-3 lead into the third period.

OTTAWA, ON — Alex Carpenter scored the game-tying and game-winning goals against Ottawa on Sunday, as New York rallied back from a 3-0 deficit to win 4-3 in overtime.

New York scored three third period goals in a span of 1:39, the last of which came at 16:33 and tied the game 3-3.

Carpenter, who leads the PWHL in scoring with 11 points, provided the tying goal on the powerplay, much to the dismay of the near capacity home crowd at The Arena at TD Place in Ottawa. In the midst of a net front scramble, Abby Roque found a wide-open Carpenter in the slot—Carpenter quickly fired the puck into the open cage with Ottawa goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer still sprawled out on the right side of the net. Jessie Eldridge recorded the secondary assist.

Carpenter capped off the comeback by scoring at 2:12 of overtime with a shot off the rush which went in far-side on Maschmeyer. Ella Shelton and Roque provided the assists on the goal—the helper was Roque’s season-high third point of the game.

It was Roque who first gave New York a spark late in the third, at 14:54, which made the score 3-1. Roque was able to corral a rebound created by a Jaime Bourbonnais shot and put the puck over Maschmeyer’s shoulder from in close.

New York got within one just 44 seconds later, off the stick of Jade Downie-Landry, her fourth goal of the season. Eldridge provided the assist by patiently holding the puck on a 2-on-1 before feeding Downie-Landry who tapped it home to make the game 3-2.

Before Carpenter’s tying goal, Ottawa had held the lead since 7:37 of the first period when Aneta Tejralová scored her first of the year. Emily Clark and Amanda Boulier provided the assists on the goal, scored via a one-timer from the point which sailed over New York goaltender Corinne Schroeder’s glove.

After a scoreless second period, Ottawa’s Lexie Adzija gave the home team a 2-0 lead with her team-leading fourth goal of the season. Hayley Scamurra stole the puck from a New York defender before feeding Adzija on the 2-on-1, who slid it under Schroeder’s pad.

Savannah Harmon made the game 3-0 at 9:13 of the third with a powerplay marker. Harmon— who was coming off an impressive 5-point game at the PWHL 3-on-3 Showcase on Thursday— scored after Daryl Watts found her in the slot.

Schroeder made 39 saves for New York, who was outshot in every period except overtime. This is the goaltender’s fourth win of the season which ties her for the league-lead. Maschmeyer made 27 saves in the loss.

Next up, after the PWHL’s ten-day IIHF International break, Ottawa visits Minnesota for the first time at Xcel Energy Center on February 14. Three days later, on February 17, New York travels to Boston for a game at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.

OTTAWA, ON — Claude Giroux scored 3:36 into overtime, and the Ottawa Senators rallied from three goals down to beat the Nashville Predators 4-3 on Monday night.

Brady Tkachuk and Tim Stutzle each had a goal and an assist, and Drake Batherson also scored for the Senators, who won for the fourth time in seven games (4-1-2). Mads Sogaard allowed three goals on 11 shots in the first period. Joonas Korpisalo stopped all 17 shots he faced the rest of the way to get the win.

Philip Tomasino had a goal and an assist, Michael McCarron and Yakov Trenin also scored, and Roman Josi had two assists for the Predators. Juuse Saros made 31 saves in Nashville’s fourth loss in five games (1-3-1).

In the extra period, scored on a one-timer from the left circle off a pass from Stutzle.

Nashville opened the scoring 8:26 into the game when Josi fired a shot from just inside center ice and it wrapped around and popped out front to McCarron who fired a shot past Sogaard.

Tomasino made it 2-0 when he won a race and roofed a puck over Sogaard with 3:30 left in the first, and Trenin extended the Predators’ lead to three goals when he caught Sogaard out of position with 1 minute left in the period.

Batherson got the Senators on the scoreboard at 5:21 of the second as he settled a bouncing puck in front and beat Saros. It was his 17th of the season.

Stutzle pulled Ottawa within one at 9:20 when he scored his 11th, and Tkachuk tied it with his 21st with 2:50 remaining in the middle period after a faceoff win by Josh Norris.

Ottawa defenseman Travis Hamonic remained out with an upper-body injury, while Dominik Kubalik returned to the lineup after missing four games.

OTTAWA, ON — Artemi Panarin had a goal and two assists, and the New York Rangers scored seven unanswered goals to beat the Ottawa Senators 7-2 on Saturday night.

Jonathan Quick made 29 saves to stop his five-game losing streak, and first-year Rangers coach Peter Laviolette tied Al Arbour for seventh place in NHL history with 782 career wins.

Alexis Lafreniere, Chris Kreider, Zac Jones, Jonny Brodzinski, Blake Wheeler and Kaapo Kakko also scored for the Rangers (30-16-3), who were coming off a 5-2 loss to Vegas at home Friday night.

New York improved to 9-0-0 in the second half of back-to-back games and heads into the All-Star break atop the Metropolitan Division.

Ottawa got off to a solid start with Brady Tkachuk and Jakob Chychrun scoring the first two goals, but things fell apart in the second period. Joonas Korpisalo was pulled after allowing four goals on 17 shots. Mads Sogaard gave up two goals on 11 shots.

The Senators (18-25-2) had been riding a five-game point streak (3-0-2) coming into the game.

OTTAWA, ON — Brad Marchand scored at 1:48 of overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Thursday night.

The goal was Marchand’s 396th — the fifth in four games — and moved him past Ray Bourque and into fifth all-time with the Bruins.

“It’s special,” the 35-year-old Marchand said. “I try not to think too much about it, but it’s special. I never thought my career would come this far and some of the things that have gone on would have happened.

“I’ve been extremely fortunate and very lucky to be part of a group that’s had a lot of success and a lot of phenomenal guys to learn from.”

It was also Marchand’s 19th career overtime goal, tying him with Jaromir Jagr for the third in NHL history, behind Alex Ovechkin (26) and Sidney Crosby (20).

David Pastrnak and Trent Frederic also scored for the Atlantic Division- and Eastern Conference-leading Bruins. Jeremy Swayman stopped 35 shots.

“I think the biggest thing is finishing off a game that looked like an uphill battle sometimes,” Swayman said. “And it’s really special to get a back-to-back and finish it in overtime, so huge congrats to (Marchand) passing some pretty great names. So really, really good feel-good win for us.”

Thomas Chabot and Vladimir Tarasenko scored for the Senators. Joonas Korpisalo made 20 saves.

Ottawa was trailing 2-1 when Josh Norris thought he had tied the game at 13:18 of the third. But, officials determined a hand pass was involved.

The Senators did come back to tie the game at 2-all with a power-play goal at 16:42, when Tarasenko sent a shot past Swayman.

Leading 1-0 after one period, Boston extended its advantage at 8:19 of the second when Frederic beat Korpisalo high to the blocker side. The Senators cut the lead to one with a late power-play goal.

Drake Batherson made a backhand pass to Chabot, who snapped a shot past Swayman for his second of the season.

“Drake (Batherson) did 99 percent of the job,” said Tarasenko. “He made a very good screen and the goalie can’t see and left the corner open.”

The goal resulted in a scrum behind the net, and Chabot got punched by Charlie McAvoy, triggering a larger scrum and roughing penalties assessed to McAvoy, Wotherspoon, Tim Stuzle, with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to Batherson.

Bruins coach Jim Montgomery wasn’t overly impressed with the discrepancy in power plays.

“I don’t think we dodged a bullet; I think we took about eight bullets,” said Montgomery. “They had six power plays we had one. That is one-sided.”

The Bruins were largely outplayed in the first, but still held a one-goal lead after the opening 20 minutes.

Ottawa failed to capitalize on its two power-play chances, while Boston scored three seconds into its power play at 18:36 of the first. Pastrnak beat Korpisalo from just inside the blue line on the Bruins’ third shot of the period.

Senators forward Shane Pinto made his home debut after serving a 41-game suspension for gambling. Pinto had returned to action and picked up a point in a win at Philadelphia on Sunday.

OTTAWA, ON — Theresa Schafzahl broke a 2-2 tie with just 52 seconds remaining in the third period to lift Boston to a 3-2 win in Ottawa at The Arena at TD Place on Wednesday evening.

Schafzahl’s game-winner came off a rebound after teammate Alina Müller intercepted Ottawa’s breakout attempt and directed a shot towards the net, which ricocheted off Gigi Marvin on its way to the goal.

Ottawa battled back from a 2-0 first period deficit to tie the game at twos early in the third, but Schafzahl’s late goal officially ended the home team’s pursuit of a second straight win.

Müller got the game’s first goal, scored on the powerplay, at 8:38 of the first period to give Boston a 1-0 lead. The first-year pro scored from the high slot through a Hannah Brandt screen and past Ottawa goaltender Sandra Abstreiter just 14 seconds into the advantage after taking a feed from teammate Megan Keller.

The goal was the first of the season for Müller, the league’s third overall draft pick, who entered the game with five assists in four games played. Keller’s helper was her first of the season—entering tonight’s contest, she had two goals.

Boston forward Jamie Lee Rattray had a memorable homecoming. The Kanata-born forward scored her first-ever PWHL goal in Ottawa to help her team add to its lead and head into the first intermission up 2-0.

The 31-year-old scored on the rush at 2:23 of the period after slipping by the Ottawa defender to get to the net, where she tapped home a cross-crease pass from Sophie Shirley.

Abstreiter, who was making her first start of the season, left the game after Boston’s second goal with an apparent injury and was replaced by Emerance Maschmeyer.

After trailing 12-7 in shots after the first period, Ottawa bounced back in the second, outshooting Boston 16-8 in the frame.

Kristin Della Rovere finally got the home team on the board at 15:34 of the middle period after Boston goaltender Aerin Frankel made a series of high-quality saves to start the frame. Della Rovere quickly tapped a pass from Natalie Snodgrass into the back of the net, cutting Boston’s lead in half to 2-1.

Della Rovere’s goal was her first of the season—and first as a pro— and Snodgrass picked up her first assist on the marker.

At 3:46 of the third period, Lexie Adzija tied the game at 2-2 by scoring a rebound goal on the powerplay, assisted by captain Brianne Jenner and defender Amanda Boulier, much to the delight of the 5,208 fans in attendance.

The last ten minutes of the third period saw each team produce several dangerous scoring chances. Frankel and Maschmeyer kept the game tied for their respective teams, until Schafzahl’s late winner.

Frankel made 37 saves in the win. Maschmeyer made 18 saves in relief and Abstreiter stopped 10 of 12 shots before leaving the game in the first period.

Up next, Ottawa hits the road for just the second time this season to take on Montréal at Place Bell on January 27. That same afternoon, Boston returns home to the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell to host Minnesota for a second time.

OTTAWA, ON — Emily Clark and Brianne Jenner each scored first period goals for Ottawa in a 3-1 win against Toronto at The Arena at TD Place in Ottawa on Tuesday.

Clark scored at 5:00 of the first period to give her team an early 1-0 lead—her first-ever PWHL goal. The forward scored after she threw the puck on net from the goal line near the corner, which banked off the inside of Toronto goaltender Erica Howe’s pad and into the back of the net.

Jenner’s tally at 12:00 of the first period gave her team a 2-1 lead and held as the eventual game winner. The goal, the first of the season for the captain, was assisted by Amanda Boulier.

The goal came after Boulier cut off Toronto’s attempted breakout pass up the middle which kept the puck in the offensive zone. She then sped towards Toronto’s net and dropped the puck back to Jenner, who snapped it past Howe.

Lexie Adzija officially put the game away for her team with a shorthanded, empty-net goal with just 43 seconds left in the third, which she scored from behind Ottawa’s goal line. The marker also freed teammate Clark from the penalty box.

The 3-1 win is Ottawa’s first on home ice after their first two attempts resulted in overtime losses, to Montréal and Minnesota. Ottawa’s first-ever win also came in regulation against Toronto ten days ago at Mattamy Athletic Centre, with a final score of 5-1.

Toronto winger Brittany Howard’s first PWHL goal came at 11:08 of the first period. Captain Blayre Turnbull had the helper— her first PWHL point. The tally tied the game 1-1 for just 42 seconds before Jenner restored the home team’s lead.

Ottawa goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer made 30 saves to secure her second regulation win of the season. She’s started all four of Ottawa’s games. Howe made 17 saves in in the loss, her first start of the season.

Up next, Ottawa returns to action on Wednesday night for the first back-to-back games on the PWHL schedule when they host Boston at 7:00 p.m. ET. On Friday, Toronto hosts New York, which will be the third game between the two teams this season. Through the first two games, each road team has won in regulation.

OTTAWA, ON — Nikolaj Ehlers’ goal with 45.8 seconds remaining in overtime led the Winnipeg Jets to a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.

Mason Appleton scored in the second period for the Jets. Connor Hellebuyck made 34 saves.

Parker Kelly had the lone goal for Ottawa, which played its first overtime game of the season. Joonas Korpisalo stopped 27 shots.

On the winning goal, Ehlers deked Ottawa’s Jakob Chychrun and then beat Korpisalo with a backhand shot.

OTTAWA, ON — Tim Stutzle had a goal and two assists, Joonas Korpisalo stopped 21 shots and the Ottawa Senators beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-2 on Thursday night.

Brady Tkachuk, Rourke Chartier, Vladimir Tarasenko, Mathieu Joseph and Parker Kelly also scored for Ottawa. The Senators won for the second time in eight games to improve to 16-24-0.

Ottawa responded after interim coach Jacques Martin challenged the team after a 7-4 loss to Colorado on Tuesday night, saying he needed a better effort and more determination from some people.

“I thought it was a really good effort for 60 minutes,” Martin said. “I thought we played on our toes. What I like is, the last couple of games, I like the amount of time we’re spending in the offensive zone. I think it’s a step in the right direction.”

Cole Caufield and Michael Pezzetta scored for Montreal. Coming off a 3-2 victory over New Jersey on Wednesday night, the Canadiens dropped to 19-19-7.

Cayden Primeau made 32 saves for Montreal.

Montreal, playing its ninth back-to-back, has struggled this season on the tail end of those back-to-backs with a 1-8-0 record.

“We’ve had a tough schedule here,” Caufield said. “Playing back-to-back is tough, but at the end of the day the league doesn’t care and we’ve got to be ready for those things.”

Leading 4-1 to open the third, the Senators didn’t take long to make this one look ugly.

After a turnover at center ice, Stutzle broke in and made a nice drop pass to Joseph for his seventh of the season.

“I haven’t been playing the way I want to play,” Stutzle said. “The last three games, I think I’ve got my confidence back. I think the whole group, I mean, we’re getting pucks to the net, we’ve got guys on the goalie and it makes the job easier.”

Kelly added his empty-netter when the Canadiens pulled Primeau with over seven minutes remaining.

Pezzetta made it 6-2 by winning a battle for the puck in front late in the third.

OTTAWA, ON – Susanna Tapani scored her first two goals of the season, including the game-winner, as Minnesota rallied from a two-goal deficit to win 3-2 in overtime on the road against Ottawa on Wednesday.

Tapani scored 1:57 into the extra frame, when the forward carried the puck into Ottawa’s zone and shot the puck from the outside hash marks— the puck ricocheted off an Ottawa player and flipped up-and-over Emerance Maschmeyer’s shoulder to end the game 3-2.

The three-time Finnish Olympian first got on the board at the 3:21 mark of the second period with a powerplay goal assisted by Taylor Heise and Lee Stecklein. Tapani took the cross-ice feed from Heise and wristed the puck far-side and into the back of the net, which brought Minnesota to within one goal.

The goal was Minnesota’s first on the powerplay this season after the team went 0/8 in their first five games played.

The crowd at TD Place in Ottawa was treated to a first period lead for the second time in two home games, as Ottawa’s first round draft pick Savannah Harmon was first on the board just 3:41 into the game. The goal was Harmon’s first of the year.

On the play, forward Emily Clark recorded the assist after she rushed the puck from her own end and into the offensive zone, then fed the puck to Harmon who roofed it past Nicole Hensley.

Less than ten minutes later, Lexie Adzija scored a powerplay goal, assisted by Jincy Roese and Kateřina Mrázová, at 10:55 to put Ottawa up 2-0. The goal—Adzija’s first of the season and first-ever professional mark— came after a Roese shot from the point created a rebound, which Adzija tapped home.

After Tapani’s 2-1 goal earlier in the frame, Grace Zumwinkle evened the score at 2-2 with a shorthanded goal at 11:20 in the second period.

On the penalty kill, Zumwinkle cut to the net and roofed the puck from in tight past Maschmeyer, which also freed Tapani from the box. This is the third ‘jailbreak’ shorthanded goal in the PWHL this season and Zumwinkle’s league-leading fifth tally. Kelly Pannek got the lone assist on the goal, her third helper of the season.

After neither team could capitalize in the third period, the game required 3-on-3 overtime, the second OT game each team has played this season.

Ottawa’s homestand continues with back-to-back games against Toronto and Boston on January 23 and 24. Minnesota’s next game is a home date with Montréal on January 24.

OTTAWA, ON — Mikko Rantanen had a pair of goals and the Colorado Avalanche scored four unanswered goals in the third period goals to beat the Ottawa Senators 7-4 on Tuesday night.

Trailing 4-3 to start the third period, Colorado didn’t take long to tie the game with Miles Wood taking advantage of a clear lane to the net.

Sam Malinski gave the Avalanche the lead with a power-play goal with a shot from the top of the slot at the eight-minute mark. Logan O’Connor added some insurance with a late goal and Devon Toews added an empty-net goal.

Jason Polin also scored for Colorado, while Justus Annunen, making his season debut, had 36 saves. Samuel Girard had three assists.

“On a back-to-back, going against a fresh team, that’s sort of what you need to do, have everyone pulling on the reins, have everyone contributing in different ways,” O’Connor said.

“I thought Justus (Annunen) was also huge for us when we needed him. He made a lot of key stops and gave us the opportunity to come back there in the third.”

Ridly Greig led Ottawa with two goals while Drake Batherson and Jake Sanderson also scored. Mads Sogaard, also making is season debut in net, stopped 27 shots for the Senators.

The effort left Senators coach Jacques Martin disappointed.

“I think we just need a better effort from some people,” Martin said. “We need more determination.”

The Senators held their own against the Avalanche for 40 minutes, but couldn’t find a way to shut them down in the third.

“I don’t know if it’s exactly the third period,” said captain Brady Tkachuk, who had three assists. “It’s never really a 60-minute effort. I think we let off the gas … we just need to find a way to just put in a consistent 60-minute effort and make life a little bit easier for our goalies.”

Ottawa took the lead early in the second when Annunen juggled Tkachuk’s shot and Greig poked the puck in. Colorado tied it just over one minute later when Polin beat Sogaard with a snap shot to the far corner for his first NHL goal.

Greig gave the Senators the lead at the seven-minute mark with his second of the night and Sanderson with a beautiful move made it 4-2 at the midway mark of the period.

Colorado appeared to make it a one-goal game, but a goal by Malinski was reviewed and was ruled offside. Just over a minute later Rantanen scored his second of the game.

The teams exchanged first-period goals.

Ottawa opened the scoring with a power-play goal when Batherson drilled Logan O’Connor with a shot and then fired the puck home. Bust 38 seconds later Colorado tied the game when Rantanen, from one knee, tipped in Cale Makar’s shot.