{"id":540663,"date":"2026-03-16T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540663\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:50:09","slug":"couple-beauty-goals-senators-drake-batherson-racks-up-unique-stat-in-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540663\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Couple beauty goals’: Senators’ Drake Batherson racks up unique stat in win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"AOttawa Senators right wing Drake Batherson, left, celebrates a goal with teammate Thomas Chabot against the San Jose Sharks on Sunday. (Keito Newman\/IMAGN IMAGES\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

There’s no doubt Drake Batherson’s two goals against the San Jose Sharks on Sunday were crucial. <\/p>\n

The Ottawa winger’s first goal tied the game at one. His second put the Senators ahead 5-4 and gave them the momentum they needed to finish on top and claim another two points toward a coveted playoff spot in the East.<\/p>\n

It’s how Batherson scored the goals that had people at Canadian Tire Centre shaking their heads.<\/p>\n

In the seventh minute of the first period, with the Sharks up 1-0 and the Sens on a power play, Batherson took a pass from captain Brady Tkachuk and shovelled a backhand through the San Jose crease. <\/p>\n

The puck deflected off the stick of Sharks defenceman Mario Ferraro and past goalie Laurent Brossoit, straight into the net.<\/p>\n

Because it was an own goal by San Jose, Batherson \u2014 the last Senator to touch the puck \u2014 was credited with the goal, but it was not registered as a shot on goal.<\/p>\n

It was about to get weirder.<\/p>\n

At the 13:08 mark of the third period, with the score tied at four, Sens winger Claude Giroux took advantage of a turnover in the San Jose zone and fed a cross-ice pass to defenceman Artem Zub, who rifled a high shot from the blue line toward the Sharks net. <\/p>\n

The puck hit Batherson in the chest and bounced past Brossoit for the game-winner.<\/p>\n

\"HockeyBatherson scores the game-winning goal as the puck deflects off his body behind San Jose Shark John Klingberg and goaltender Laurent Brossoit on Sunday. (Patrick Doyle\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

The Sens would go on to win 7-4. Batherson, despite registering a single shot on goal for the third-period deflection, was credited with two goals \u2014 neither scored with his own stick.<\/p>\n

“Couple beauty goals for sure tonight,” Batherson laughed during a post-game interview with TSN’s Claire Hanna. “Just got to go to the net, and hopefully it hits off me and goes in.”<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was awarded first star of Sunday’s game. He has 27 goals with the Senators this season, one shy of his career-high, along with 32 assists.<\/p>\n

Ottawa’s next game is in Washington on Wednesday. They are three points back of a playoff spot with 16 games to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-540663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540663","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=540663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}