In Ottawa, the Senators’ Tim Stutzle hit for the game-winner over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night, his overtime goal goal with 38 seconds left in the extra session sent the Sens to a 3-2 win.
“I actually tried to see if [Thomas Chabot] was open,” Stutzle said. “But then I saw the little spot up there and just tried to shoot it and it went in.”
Stutzle left the ice in the third period after getting a cut over eye in a fight.
“Let’s be clear, you don’t want [Stutzle] fighting ever,” Senators head coach D.J. Smith said. “But he gets in a fight, comes back and does what he does. I mean, we’ve got a real, real hockey player on our hands.”
The rejuvenated Matt Murray made 37 saves in the Ottawa win.
“You’ve got to give him a lot of credit,” Smith said of Murray. “When he came in at the start of the year, would he have ever thought that he’d go through waivers? A stint in the minors? A lot of guys would take the ball and go home and kind of turn their [back] to us, and he didn’t. He went to work, never complained and came back and has brought a brand-new attitude and his own personal confidence.”
Connor McDavid and Darnell Nurse were the Oilers strikers in regulation.
“I think we could’ve probably had another step up in our effort, especially in the middle of that game,” Nurse said. “But with that said, we found a way to get a point. We haven’t been doing that much lately.”
Edmonton dropped to 22-16-3.
“Didn’t finish. We didn’t finish,” Oilers head coach Dave Tippett said. “Had some opportunities. In this league, the first one to three [goals] usually can win. We didn’t get to three. They did.”
Thomas Chabot and Nick Paul scored for the Senators in regular time.
“I thought [Paul] was the best player on the ice for us,” Smith said. “There’s very few people in the world who can skate with McDavid, especially a forward [skating] back, and he did it in overtime, and with Draisaitl when he had to. He killed penalties, scored. I don’t know what else he’s got to do, but you know, he’s playing with confidence and he’s giving us a chance.”
Mikko Koskinen. made 28 saves in the Oilers loss.
“I don’t know if we played well enough through 60 minutes to deserve a win, in my opinion,” the Oilers’ Derek Ryan said. “But good on us to battle through and stick with it. They’re a tough team to play against. They play hard, they play the right way. They keep a lot of pucks and bodies away from their net, and their goaltender was awesome, too.”
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