{"id":943073,"date":"2026-10-23T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943073\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:40:14","slug":"sharks-score-six-ease-past-senators-for-first-regulation-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943073\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks score six, ease past Senators for first regulation win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Stutzle<\/a> and Jordan Spence<\/a> scored for the Senators (7-4-0), who defeated the Florida Panthers 5-1 in Brady Tkachuk<\/a>\u2019s return to Ottawa on Wednesday, but have lost two of their past three games. Samuel Ersson<\/a>\u00a0made 22 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we play like a pretty good game for a lot of stretches,\u201d Ersson said. \u201cEspecially after their score, their fourth one. I think we take over and like we dominate for the whole third period too, so lots of good things. Obviously, it (stinks) with the result, but I think like for the team-wise, it’s a lot of good things to take forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stutzle gave the Senators a 1-0 lead on a delayed penalty at 6:16 of the first period. Stutzle came on the ice as the extra attacker, received a cross-ice feed from Drake Batherson<\/a>\u00a0in the left face-off circle and buried a wrist shot five-hole on Askarov.<\/p>\n

Carter Yakemchuk<\/a> appeared to make it 2-0 at 11:26, but video review determined that the puck hit the left post and crossbar and never crossed the goal line.<\/p>\n

Allan tied it 1-1 at 11:04, beating\u00a0Ersson over the glove into the top-right corner.<\/p>\n

San Jose scored a power-play, short-handed and even-strength goal in a 4:05 span in the second period to take the lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously last night’s game was really big, but coming into this game, you know, it was going to be a challenge, especially on a back-to-back,\u201d Spence said. \u201cAnd I think all the back-to-backs we had, we’ve lost. So we wanted to kind of come prepared, mentally and physically ready. And like I said, we did a lot of good things, but there’s some little things that you know with turnovers and everything that they created opportunities and capitalized on it. So we just got to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toffoli put the Sharks up 2-1 at 9:13 of the second period with a power-play goal when his long-distance wrist shot got past Ersson through traffic in front.<\/p>\n

Graf scored while short-handed at 12:00 to make it 3-1. He stripped the puck from Stephen Halliday<\/a> in the defensive zone and began a rush up the ice. After dropping the puck back to Ty Dellandrea<\/a>, Graf dove in front to tap in the return pass into an open net.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was, you know, a bit of a bobbled puck, and for us that means go,\u201d Graf said. \u201cJust pressure and 2-on-2 with ‘Dell,’ and I think we just sort of had a little bit of silent communication about a little cross-and-drop play, and a great pass by him, and just put it in the open net.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Stutzle and Jordan Spence scored for the Senators (7-4-0), who defeated the Florida Panthers 5-1 in Brady…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-943073","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\/943073","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=943073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}