Stutzle breaks third-place tie, Senators face Sharks | Pro Hockey News

Stutzle gave Ottawa a 3-2 lead at 13:22. He took a stretch pass up the middle from Jake Sanderson and skated into a 2-on-0 with Nick Cousins ​​before San Jose goalie Alex Nedeljkovic stopped Cousins’ backhand with his extended left pad. Stutzle then poked the puck from the goal line into an open net.

“Great pass [Jake Sanderson]said Stutzle. “I didn’t know if it was offside or not, so I just followed the action.”

Dylan Cozens and Fabian Zetterlund also scored for the Senators (11-6-4), who have won the first two of a seven-game road trip and are 5-1-1 in their last seven games. Linus Ullmark made 17 saves.

“Just another hard effort, just like last night,” said Ottawa coach Travis Green, whose team came from behind to beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 on Thursday. “I thought we played decently the first half of the game, and then I thought we picked up the pace of our game a little bit with our tracking and our forechecking. We spent a lot of time in their zone. Had a lot of good stuff out of it.”

John Klingberg and Barclay Goodrow scored, and Nedeljkovic made 24 saves for the Sharks (10-9-3), who had won two in a row. Macklin Celebrini had an assist to extend his point streak to four games (six points; three goals, three assists).

“We couldn’t win a puck at all,” San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “Defensively, offensively, and if you’re not winning pucks, you just skate and chase it. That’s what we did.”

Will Smith appeared to give the Sharks a 1-0 lead 1:27 into the first period, but his goal was overturned after the Senators challenged for offside.

Cozens put Ottawa up 1-0 at 7:50 with a power-play goal. Stutzle skated along the left wing and threw a pass to the slot that Cozens diverted past Nedeljkovic’s left path.

“They work, they grind, and when they had their opportunities, they definitely capitalized,” Smith said of the Senators.

Klingberg tied the score at 1-1 on the power play at 16:06. After a pass from Celebrini, Klingberg scored with a wrist shot from above the right circle that went over Ullmark’s blocker, while Alexander Wennberg screened the goalkeeper.

“That was a great display [Wennberg] in front,” Klingberg said.

Goodrow made it 2-1 for San Jose at 7:47 of the second period. After Ullmark stopped Mario Ferraro’s one-timer on the rush, Wennberg made a rebound that went in off Goodrow’s skate.

Zetterlund then made it 2-2 at 6:38 PM with a goal against his former team. Tyler Kleven saw it cut through center ice, and Zetterlund’s wrist shot from the right circle beat Nedeljkovic over the glove.

“What a night. It felt surreal,” Zetterlund said. “Great pass [Kleven] there. I thought so [Cozens] on the other side too. But shooting is not a bad option either.”

NOTES: Thomas Chabot returned to the Senators lineup after missing three games with an upper-body injury. The defenseman was minus-1 and had three shots on goal in 21:45 of ice time. … Ottawa is 3-0-2 in its past five road games. … Senators forward Claude Giroux was 17-for-21 on faceoffs (81 percent).