Tkachuk, who spent eight seasons in Ottawa, including five as captain, received a hostile reception in his return to Canadian Tire Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was booed regularly and fans chanted throughout the evening. A number of fans also threw \u201cTkachuk\u201d jerseys on the ice.<\/p>\n
The Senators (7-3-0) lost goaltender Linus Ullmark early in the third period. Ullmark, who allowed one goal on 17 shots, made a pad save on Tkachuk and left the game.<\/p>\n
Sam Ersson faced one shot in relief.<\/p>\n
Tim Stutzle, Claude Giroux, Shane Pinto, Warren Foegele and Stephen Halliday scored for the Senators.<\/p>\n
Tkachuk scored the lone goal for the Panthers (5-3-2), who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end. Akira Schmid made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
Emotions boiled over in the third. Tkachuk, brother Matthew and Sam Bennett got into it in front of Ottawa\u2019s bench with Tkachuk and Dylan Cozens getting into a heated exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ottawa\u2019s Ridlyy Greig and Bennett fought earlier in the period.<\/p>\n
Foegele gave the Senators a 4-1 lead by finishing off a great feed from Cozens at the eight-minute mark of the third. Halliday made it 5-1 when he scored off a Stutzle drop-pass.<\/p>\n
The Senators scored twice in the second period. Giroux scored his second of the season through traffic from the top of the slot midway through the stanza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pinto made it 3-1 late in the period.<\/p>\n
Despite the hostile welcome, Tkachuk seemed unfazed and opened the scoring for the Panthers with a power-play goal midway through the first period on a feed from his brother.<\/p>\n
Stutzle tied the game just over four minutes later with a one-timer off a pass from Jake Sanderson.<\/p>\n
Senators: Ottawa played with intensity and determination and was rewarded.<\/p>\n
Panthers: The Panthers seemed to get caught up in the emotion of the game early on and drew a couple needless penalties.<\/p>\n
Sanderson (305 GP) became the second-fastest Senators defenceman to reach 40 career multi-point games, behind Erik Karlsson (233 GP).<\/p>\n
Ullmark needed assistance when he left the game early in the third period.<\/p>\n
Senators: Ottawa will host the San Jose Sharks on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Panthers: Florida heads to Pittsburgh to face the Penguins on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tkachuk, who spent eight seasons in Ottawa, including five as captain, received a hostile reception in his return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-936465","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\/936465","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=936465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}