{"id":202522,"date":"2025-10-10T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:25:12","slug":"shane-pinto-scores-tiebreaking-goal-late-in-third-as-ottawa-senators-beat-tampa-bay-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202522\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Pinto scores tiebreaking goal late in third as Ottawa Senators beat Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Shane Pinto<\/a> scored his second goal of the night late in the third period to lift the Ottawa Senators<\/a> to a 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> on Thursday in the opener for both clubs.<\/p>\n

Dylan Cozens<\/a> and Artem Zub<\/a> also scored for the Senators, and Claude Giroux<\/a> added an empty-netter. Brady Tkachuk<\/a> had three assists.<\/p>\n

Linus Ullmark<\/a> stopped 21 shots for Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Brayden Point<\/a> had a goal and two assists for Tampa Bay, which fell to 21-10-2 in season openers. Nikita Kucherov<\/a> scored twice and Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/a> had a power-play goal.<\/p>\n

Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a>, who played only two periods in the preseason, finished with 29 saves.<\/p>\n

Jake Sanderson<\/a> intercepted a pass at center ice and transitioned up ice quickly to take the puck to the net, where Pinto punched in a loose puck with 1:47 left to put the Senators ahead for good at 4-3.<\/p>\n

The Lightning jumped on top early as Bjorkstrand, acquired from Seattle at the trade deadline last season, slid into the slot to receive a pass from Jake Guentzel<\/a> and snap a shot past Ullmark with 14:25 left in the first period. Point made it 2-0 less than 90 seconds later, and Cozens answered with a power-play goal for Ottawa midway through the period.<\/p>\n

Kucherov regained the two-goal advantage for Tampa Bay with 5:14 left in the first on the Lightning\u2019s second power-play goal of the period.<\/p>\n

Zub threw a puck toward net on the opening shift of the second that bounced off the post, then off Vasilevskiy 42 seconds into the period. Pinto converted a breakaway that tied the game with 4:51 left in the second.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Senators: At Florida on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Lightning: Host New Jersey on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Erik Erlendsson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Shane Pinto scored his second goal of the night late in the third period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-202522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}