{"id":543089,"date":"2026-03-16T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:50:07","slug":"batherson-breaks-tie-in-3rd-senators-top-sharks-to-gain-in-wild-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543089\/","title":{"rendered":"Batherson breaks tie in 3rd, Senators top Sharks to gain in wild card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toffoli put San Jose ahead 2-1 at 14:43 after deflecting\u00a0Ferraro\u2019s point shot in front of the crease over Ullmark.<\/p>\n<p>Foegele tied it 2-2 at 4:31 of the second period. A pass up the ice by Ferraro was picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/michael-amadio-8478020\" title=\"Michael Amadio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Amadio<\/a> coming off the bench at the blue line. He skated in and passed to Foegle, who sent it five-hole through Brossoit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a great team effort,\u201d Foegele said. \u201cGuys are battling hard and it\u2019s a lot more fun winning than losing. I think we were just trying to attack the net a little bit more, be a little bit more direct and try to get inside. You never know if it\u2019s going to go in if you don\u2019t shoot it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graf scored in his third straight game to put the Sharks back up 3-2 at 10:46.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/macklin-celebrini-8484801\" title=\"Macklin Celebrini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a>\u00a0sent the puck to the front of the net, where Graf won a puck battle against two Senators and got it over the glove of Ullmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly what we\u2019re looking for from everyone in the lineup,\u201d San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky said. \u201cPerfect example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zetterlund\u2019s power-play goal tied it 3-3 at 13:40, shooting one from the point past Brossoit to end a 13-game goal drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stuck with it,\u201d Zetterlund said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t pretty all the time, but that\u2019s the life of back-to-back, you got to keep it simple. But yeah, I think we played a solid game and really important points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tyler-kleven-8482095\" title=\"Tyler Kleven\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Kleven<\/a> gave Ottawa its first lead of the game, 4-3, just over a minute later at 14:45. The play started when Foegele picked up a turnover by Graf in the offensive zone and sent the puck to Zetterlund. Zetterlund fed Kleven down low at the edge of the left face-off circle, and he beat Brossoit past the left post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super frustrated about that,\u201d Graf said. \u201cIt\u2019s a mistake that can\u2019t happen. There\u2019s just poor execution on my part. I think for the rest of the period, it was sort of the same idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/michael-misa-8485402\" title=\"Michael Misa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Misa<\/a>\u00a0tied it 4-4 at 3:28 of the third period when he took a pass at the blue line and skated in to score top right corner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just like how we just stuck with the game,\u201d Green said. \u201cThings weren\u2019t going exactly how we planned. Sometimes that happens. But we just kept playing, having trust in our game that we would come out on the right side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Batherson recorded his seventh multigoal game of 2025-26. The only Senators players who have posted as many in a single season over the past 15 years are\u00a0Tkachuk (nine in 2023-34), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tim-stutzle-8482116\" title=\"Tim Stutzle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Stutzle<\/a> (seven in 2022-23), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/josh-norris-8480064\" title=\"Josh Norris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Norris<\/a>\u00a0(seven in 2021-22) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/milan-michalek-8470599\" title=\"Milan Michalek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Michalek<\/a>\u00a0(seven in 2011-12). \u2026 Batherson scored his 55th career power-play goal to surpass Marian Hossa for sole possession of sixth place on the franchise\u2019s all-time list. \u2026 Celebrini (65 games) reached the 60-assist mark in the fewest games by a Sharks skater since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/erik-karlsson-8474578\" title=\"Erik Karlsson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Karlsson<\/a>\u00a0(63 games in 2022-23). He extended his point streak to nine games (seven goals, seven assists).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toffoli put San Jose ahead 2-1 at 14:43 after deflecting\u00a0Ferraro\u2019s point shot in front of the crease over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-543089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}