The Ottawa Senators tried and failed to play keep-away with a one-goal lead and had to go to overtime to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
While the Senators neglected to post a shot on goal in the third period until only 1:26 remained, the Flyers got a game-tying goal from Jamie Drysdale to send the game into overtime. Then Tim Stutzle reached a loose puck and scored with 1:41 left in OT.<\/p>\n
Ottawa (7-5-3) went without a shot from 2:43 remaining in the second period until Dylan Cozens’ attempt with 1:26 left, his team up 2-1 at the time. They started fast with 37-year-old David Perron passing to a wide-open Stutzle, and he had an easy time snapping a shot past Flyers goalie Sam Ersson 5:14 into the game.<\/p>\n
Only 1:05 later, former Flyers captain Claude Giroux, also 37, fed winger Michael Amadio, and he went right down an unprotected slot to slip the puck past Ersson for a 2-0 Senators lead.<\/p>\n
The Flyers (8-5-2) got on the board when Matvei Michkov spun away from Ottawa defender Jake Sanderson, then cut through the slot and put one home at 11:23 of the second to bring the Flyers to within 2-1.<\/p>\n
It was Michkov’s second goal in two games, after he’d gone the previous nine without one.<\/p>\n
While goalie Linus Ullmark (20 saves) worked to keep that score intact into the third, his club switched to a pure defensive effort in the third period.<\/p>\n
That worked only until Drysdale found a loose puck in the slot and rebounded it home with 10:05 left in regulation to tie the game.<\/p>\n
Up Next<\/p>\n
Senators: Get right back into action Sunday night, hosting the Utah Mammoth for the first of a four-game Ottawa homestand.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia: Will host the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators tried and failed to play keep-away with a one-goal lead and had to go to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4843,69,4845,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-29002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}