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One recurring theme in the NHL has been comebacks. Alex DeBrincat tied the game, Tim Stutzle won it, and the Ottawa Senators rallied to defeat the Calgary Flames with a 4-3 overtime victory on Monday night in Ottawa.
Stutzle's goal and 3 assists paced the Senators on the scoresheet, who improved to 6-4-0 in their last 10 games with a late game comeback, forcing OT with two goals in the last 2:14 of play. DeBrincat was the other multipoint player, recording a goal and an assist.
Ottawa forward Drake Batherson said of the comeback that "There's four, five minutes left and you see a few people leaving, and before you know it, it's tied up. It's awesome. We haven't scored many 6-on-5 goals since I've been here, and the place went nuts, so it was great to get the win."
Brady Tkachuk got the Senators started, with the captain scoring his 21st goal of the season with assists from Stutzle and Travis Hamonic. With the Flames on the power play at the 14:47 mark of the first, Dillon Dube scored to tie the game 1-1, with Jonathan Huberdeau and Noah Hanifin assisting on his 14th goal.
Calgary took the lead in the second period, with Tyler Toffoli scoring 5:55 into the second period, assisted by MacKenzie Weegar on his 22nd goal of the season. Dube scored his second goal of the season 6:40 into the 3rd period, giving the Flames a 3-1 lead with Toffoli and Chris Tanev assisting.
Batherson started the Senators comeback, making it 3-2 at the 17:46 mark of the 3rd period on his 16th goal of the season. With 1:28 left in regulation, DeBrincat tied the game with his 18th goal of the season. Just 1:55 into overtime, Stutzle won the game on his 23rd goal of the season, assisted by DeBrincat and Tkachuk.
Stutzle said after the game that there were "A lot of pucks bobbling in the slot and on the power play, too. We had some good looks, but then the puck bobbled last second every time we wanted to shoot. But in the end, we tried to figure it out. I got really mad there a couple of times, but in the end, we figured it out."
Getting the start in goal for the Senators was Mads Sogaard, making his first start of the season with both Anton Forsberg and Cam Talbot on the shelf. Sogaard stopped 34 of the 37 shots he saw from the Flames, good for a .919 save percentage.
Starting opposite Sogaard was Jacob Markstrom for the Flames, who couldn't hold off the late Ottawa rally. Markstrom turned aside 21 out of the 25 shots on goal the Senators had, recording a .840 save percentage as his record moves to 14-13-7 on the season.
Flames head coach Darryl Sutter said of the loss that "I thought we played a heck of a game. We ran out of gas a little bit when we went down to four there the last three or four minutes. I thought we ran out of gas. I thought we played really well."
The Senators resume play by finishing a back to back on Tuesday night, starting Kevin Mandolese against the New York Islanders. Markstrom is projected to start for the Flames on Thursday against the Detroit Red Wings.
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