{"id":417035,"date":"2026-01-18T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417035\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:35:07","slug":"canadiens-rally-with-2-goals-late-in-3rd-defeat-senators-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417035\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens rally with 2 goals late in 3rd, defeat Senators in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Sanderson<\/a> had a goal and three assists, and Tim Stutzle<\/a> had a goal and an assist for the Senators (22-19-6), who had won two in a row.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery frustrating,\u201d Sanderson said. \u201cWe played a great 56 minutes but you\u2019ve got to play 60 to win, especially against that team with the high offense and the ability to come back in a game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leevi Merilainen<\/a> made 13 saves in his 10th consecutive start.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team can hang their head, or they can be mad,\u201d Ottawa coach Travis Green said. \u201cI\u2019d rather us be mad. We played a hell of a hockey game tonight, and that happens. I\u2019ve said it a lot, but it does happen, and we\u2019ve got to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slafkovsky gave the Canadiens a 1\u20130 lead on the power play at 3:06 of the first period. Playing the puck behind the net, Suzuki fed Caufield, who quickly slid it to Slafkovsky in the left circle for a one-timer to the glove side.<\/p>\n

Montreal\u2019s Zachary Bolduc<\/a> had a goal overturned at 11:30 after Ottawa challenged for offside, but Caufield made it 2-0 at 17:50 with the Canadiens back on the power play. After Suzuki won a puck battle against Claude Giroux<\/a> near the left boards, he fed Caufield, who moved into the left circle and beat Merilainen with a wrist shot through the five-hole.<\/p>\n

Brady Tkachuk<\/a> scored the first of Ottawa\u2019s four second-period goals, cutting it to 2-1 at 42 seconds during a 5-on-3 power play. Giroux got to the rebound of Sanderson\u2019s shot in front of the net and passed to Tkachuk for a wrist shot in the left circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they were executing at a much higher level, especially in the second period,\u201d Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said. \u201cThey caught us out there for a long time. I think fatigue builds up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stutzle tied it 2-2 at 3:07 of the second, skating along the goal line down the left side and lifting a shot between his legs that went inside the near post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know what to say,\u201d Stutzle said. \u201cDidn\u2019t give them a whole lot. Felt like we played a really good game, and if you score five, you should be able to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Sanderson had a goal and three assists, and Tim Stutzle had a goal and an assist for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-417035","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\/417035","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=417035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}