{"id":552742,"date":"2026-03-22T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552742\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:53:19","slug":"ottawa-senators-pounce-early-for-crucial-win-send-toronto-maple-leafs-to-another-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552742\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators pounce early for crucial win, send Toronto Maple Leafs to another loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Senators<\/a> had a dominant game against their provincial rivals Saturday night beating the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> 5-2.<\/p>\n

The Senators (36-24-9) dominated play from start to finish, scoring the game\u2019s first three goals.<\/p>\n

Anthony Stolarz<\/a> was expected to get the start but took a puck to the throat during warm-ups and was sent to hospital for precautionary imaging putting Joseph Woll<\/a> back in action. Woll faced 36 shots in a 4-3 overtime loss to Carolina Friday night.<\/p>\n

Trailing 3-1 to start the third the Leafs (29-29-13) made it close with a goal by Easton Cowan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Senators regained the two-goal lead midway through the period when Michael Amadio<\/a>, with his 12th, tucked in a Jordan Spence<\/a> rebound. On an odd-man rush Dylan Cozens<\/a> found Ridly Greig<\/a> in the slot and he beat Woll, who stopped 39 shots.<\/p>\n

Linus Ullmark<\/a> made a big glove save on Matias Maccelli<\/a> early in the second to preserve Ottawa\u2019s 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

The Senators made it 2-0 midway through the period when Claude Giroux<\/a> grabbed a Tyler Kleven<\/a> rebound and backhanded it past Woll.<\/p>\n

Warren Foegele<\/a> made it 3-0 with just over two minutes remaining when his shot deflected off Benoit, but 21 seconds later John Tavares<\/a> completed the give-and-go with Cowan and beat Ullmark under the arm.<\/p>\n

Ottawa opened the scoring at 14:58 of the first with a power-play goal. Tim Stutzle stepped into the faceoff circle and wristed a shot clean past Woll.<\/p>\n

Morgan Rielly<\/a> missed the game and is listed as day-to-day with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Senators: The Senators tested Woll often and had good net-front presence to jump on rebounds.<\/p>\n

Leafs: Toronto struggled with Ottawa\u2019s forecheck in the second period and were held to five shots.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

John Tavares<\/a> tallied his 519th career goal to pass Dale Hawerchuk<\/a> (518) for 41st place on the NHL\u2019s all-time list. <\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Maple Leafs: Visit the Boston Bruins<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Senators: Visit the New York Rangers<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 21, 2026.<\/p>\n

Lisa Wallace, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Senators had a dominant game against their provincial rivals Saturday night beating the Toronto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739,82],"class_list":["post-552742","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\/552742","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=552742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}