Tim Stutzle scored the overtime winner to extend his point streak to 13 games and lift the visiting Ottawa Senators to a 4-3 victory against the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday.
Stutzle carried the puck into the zone and drove to the net, where he lost control of the puck. However, the puck hit his skate and slid past goalie Arvid Soderblom 46 seconds into the extra frame.
The goal was quickly reviewed before officials confirmed the call on the ice.
Josh Norris had a goal and an assist, Brady Tkachuk and David Perron also scored and Drake Batherson and Jake Sanderson had two assists for the Senators. Linus Ullmark made 17 saves.
Ryan Donato, Teuvo Teravainen and Craig Smith scored for the Blackhawks. Soderblom stopped 22 shots.
Both teams are now 2-0-1 in their past three games.
Tkachuk gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at 2:25 of the first period when he tipped a point shot with the heel of his stick under Soderblom’s blocker.
Donato evened it for Chicago at 11:38 of the first. Landon Slaggert beat Sanderson to a loose puck and put a backhand feed on the tape for Donato, who slid a backhand past Ullmark’s outstretched left pad.
Less than a minute later, the hosts took a 2-1 lead on a power-play goal from Teravainen. The Finn sent a pass through the crease to Tyler Bertuzzi at the right of the net. Ullmark made a pad save, but the puck rolled behind him in the paint, and Teravainen batted it in on the opposite side at 12:22.
Perron tied it 2-2 at 14:09 of the opening frame. Batherson’s pass deflected up off Blackhawks defenseman Alec Martinez and hit the crossbar before Perron swatted it to put it behind Soderblom.
Norris’ one-timer of a Batherson feed from the right circle grazed past Soderblom’s glove at 10:29 of the second period to put Ottawa ahead 3-2.
Smith tied it 3-3 at 1:47 of the third period. Patrick Maroon took his own rebound behind the net and dished it to Smith, who fired a wrist shot from low in the right circle under Ullmark’s left arm.
Senators defenseman Thomas Chabot left the game late in the second period due to an illness.
–Field Level Media
