{"id":920105,"date":"2026-10-04T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920105\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:12:47","slug":"senators-get-past-maple-leafs-in-3rd-to-win-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920105\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators get past Maple Leafs in 3rd to win season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the Maple Leafs had killed off a penalty, Fabian Zetterlund\u2019s shot from the left face-off dot led to a rebound that Halliday jammed in at the side of the net to give Ottawa a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Chabot had a goal and an assist in his first game as Ottawa captain, and Linus Ullmark made 27 saves for the Senators, who were the final NHL team to play their opener.<\/p>\n<p>Auston Matthews and Kirill Marchenko scored, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves for the Maple Leafs (1-2-0), who have had each of their first three games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n<p>Chabot put the Senators up 1-0 at 18:52 of the first period when he put in a rebound at the side of the net after Shane Pinto\u2019s shot was deflected by Claude Giroux in the slot.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs tied it 1-1 at 33 seconds of the second period when Matthews deflected Morgan Rielly\u2019s shot from the blue line in the slot.<\/p>\n<p>Marchenko scored his first goal with the Maple Leafs to put them up 2-1 on the power play at 7:06 of the second period. Darren Raddysh sent a pass from the point to Marchenko at the right side of the net, where he then went to his backhand, stepped toward the slot and shot past Ullmark\u2019s blocker.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Amadio tied it 2-2 at 12:40. Tim Stutzle lifted a pass over a sprawling Rielly on a 2-on-1 to Amadio, who redirected it past Bobrovsky at the side of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark kept it tied at 13:32, stopping William Nylander with a stretching right toe save after he stepped around Dylan Cozens at the top of the right circle and deked past Jordan Spence in the slot.<\/p>\n<p>Senators defenseman Jake Sanderson left the game at 12:45 of the first period and did not return. He missed part of training camp with an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as the Maple Leafs had killed off a penalty, Fabian Zetterlund\u2019s shot from the left face-off dot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-920105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920105","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=920105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}