Drake Batherson and Brady Tkachuk each recorded one goal and one assist and Cole Reinhardt scored his first NHL goal as the host Ottawa Senators snapped a five-game skid with a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Monday.
Adam Gaudette also scored in the win, while Ridly Greig and Jake Sanderson each tallied a pair of assists. Goaltender Anton Forsberg made 24 saves.
Jonathan Huberdeau, Yegor Sharangovich and Mikael Backlund had goals for the Flames, who saw a four-game winning streak come to an end. Goalie Dustin Wolf stopped 26 shots in his team’s first outing of a four-game road trip. The Flames were uncharacteristically undisciplined and ended up short-handed nine times in the game.
After Huberdeau’s power-play goal opened the scoring at 14:32 of the opening frame, Gaudette put the Senators on the board at 17:05 with his ninth goal of the season. Gaudette was alone at the side of the net and had a tap-in set up by Greig’s cross-crease pass.
Batherson put Ottawa ahead for good with a power-play goal at 3:18 of the second period by deflecting Sanderson’s waist-high point shot for his ninth marker of the campaign.
Reinhardt, a 2020 draft pick, made his fourth NHL game all the more memorable with his milestone marker at 13:17 of the middle frame, which came when he pounced on a loose puck during a flurry.
Sharangovich made it a 3-2 game just over two minutes later with his third goal in as many games and his fifth of the season.
However, Tkachuk restored Ottawa’s two-goal lead 74 seconds into the third period with another power-play goal. He set up in the slot and lifted a high shot for his 11th tally of the season.
Backlund’s long shot that found the back of the net with 39 seconds remaining, his fifth marker of the season, made it a one-goal game, but it was too little, too late.
–Field Level Media