In Ottawa, the Senators’ Anton Forsberg made 39 saves in a 2-0 shutout of the visiting Seattle Kraken on Saturday night. 
“We played really well and fought for each other out there,” Forsberg said. “A lot of blocks. It was a really good win.”
Forsberg entered the game with the lowest save percentage among goalies in the NHL with five start or more.
“It’s been tough,” Forsberg said of his start to the season. “It’s been a lot of ups and downs, obviously. Some good games, some bad games. I’ve got to find consistency, the whole team’s got to find some consistency. We’ve got to win games on a more regular basis here.”
Ottawa moved to 9-10-0.
“When he’s on, he’s on,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said of Forsberg. “The guys love playing for him. No one works as hard as he does. He’s as good a guy as we have in that room. And you know right from the get-go when ‘Forsy’s’ going, seeing pucks.”
Mathieu Joseph scored at 17:21 of the first period to stake the Sens to a 1-0 lead.
“I think we battled really hard,” Joseph said. “That’s a team that works extremely hard. I think our goalie was excellent, I think our special units were good, I think our [penalty kill] was much better today. We were opportunistic, and like I said, our goalie kept us in the game.”
The Kraken dropped to 8-11-6 off their fourth straight loss.
“We generated some good chances, but we didn’t get second pucks,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “[Forsberg’s] also a guy that you’ve got to be able to take away his eyes, and we didn’t do that well enough for sure in the first half of the game, but we got a little better in the second half and that created some second opportunities.
“We’re here to get two points, so we’re not really trying to win the game of positives, negatives. We’re trying to win a hockey game.”
Drake Batherson scored at 13:37 of the middle frame for the 2-0 final score.
Joey Daccord made 26 saves in the loss.
“We had a lot of chances, odd-man rushes and obviously, we’d like to get some more inside and try to find some pucks around there,” the Kraken’s Jordan Eberle said. “Their goalie played really well. I thought for the most part we battled, we created a lot, but we’re just trying to find more second chances. We made two mistakes and they ended up in the back of our net.”
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