{"id":539125,"date":"2026-03-16T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539125\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:30:12","slug":"drake-batherson-paces-ottawa-senators-to-win-over-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539125\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Batherson paces Ottawa Senators to win over San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2014 Drake Batherson<\/a> scored a pair of goals for the Ottawa Senators<\/a>, including the winner, in a 7-4 win over the San Jose Sharks<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n

Both teams were playing the back half of back-to-backs and it showed at times.<\/p>\n

Laurent Brossoit<\/a>, making his first NHL start since April 18, 2024, made 17 saves for the Sharks (32-27-6), while Linus Ullmark<\/a>, coming off a 23-save shutout against the Ducks, made his third straight start and turned away 19 shots.<\/p>\n

Tied 4-4 Batherson gave the Senators (34-23-9) the lead with 6:52 remaining when an Artem Zub<\/a> shot bounced in off him when he turned to protect himself. Dylan Cozens<\/a> added the insurance marker beating Brossoit high glove just over a minute later and Brady Tkachuk<\/a> added an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n

San Jose had started the third trailing 4-3 but Michael Misa<\/a> evened the score when he took a pass at centre, skated in and wristed a shot past Ullmark.<\/p>\n

Trailing 2-1 to start the second the Senators ended it leading 4-3.<\/p>\n

Ottawa tied the game early in the period when Warren Foegele<\/a> beat Brossoit five-hole.<\/p>\n

Midway through the period Macklin Celebrini<\/a> won a puck battle along the boards and found Collin Graf<\/a> in front. Graf won the puck battle and beat Ullmark.<\/p>\n

Ottawa took its first lead scoring twice in a span of 65 seconds.<\/p>\n

Fabian Zetterlund<\/a>, a former member of the Sharks, tied it 3-3 with a one-timer on the power play and just over a minute later Zetterlund fed Tyler Kleven<\/a> who beat Brossoit high short side.<\/p>\n

San Jose opened the scoring early in the first when Mario Ferraro<\/a> buried a pass from Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ottawa got lucky on the power play when Batherson\u2019s backhand pass went in off Ferraro\u2019s skate to make it 1-1.<\/p>\n

The Sharks regained the lead midway through the period when Tyler Toffoli<\/a> was left all alone in front and tipped Ferraro\u2019s shot past Ullmark.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Senators: Ottawa\u2019s power play which has struggled of late was solid going 2-for-3.<\/p>\n

Sharks: San Jose\u2019s defence left Brossoit exposed a number of times throughout the game.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

With San Jose trailing 4-3 Brossoit came up with a big save on a Tim Stutzle breakaway in the final seconds of the second period.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

Celebrini (65 games played) reached the 60-assist mark in the fewest games by a Sharks skater since Erik Karlsson<\/a> (63 GP in 2022-23).<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Sharks: Visit the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Senators: Visit the Washington Capitals<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

Lisa Wallace, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Drake Batherson scored a pair of goals for the Ottawa Senators, including the winner, in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739,82],"class_list":["post-539125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539125","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=539125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}