Josh Norris scored in the third round of a shootout to give the Ottawa Senators a 5-4 win over the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.
The result wasn’t without controversy, as the Canadiens thought they had scored the winning goal with three seconds left in regulation. Brendan Gallagher redirected a Ben Chiarot point shot past goalie Matt Murray, but after a video review, officials waved off the play after ruling that Gallagher interfered with Murray prior to the shot.
It was Ottawa’s second win over Montreal in three days that required extra time, after Sunday’s 3-2 overtime victory. The Senators are 3-1-0 against the Canadiens this season.
All four of those games against the Senators have come within a tough eight-game stretch for Montreal, which is 2-4-2 over the span. The Canadiens are now winless in three consecutive games (0-1-2) for the first time this season.
Montreal has yet to suffer a regulation loss in 10 road games (6-0-4) this season.
Brady Tkachuk scored two goals and Drake Batherson had a goal and an assist for the Senators. Erik Brannstrom also scored, giving the defenseman his first career goal in 40 NHL games. Shea Weber scored twice for Montreal and Phillip Danault had two assists. Tyler Toffoli and Jonathan Drouin scored the Habs’ other goals.
Montreal twice came back from a pair of two-goal deficits and took the lead on Toffoli’s score at 8:06 of the third period. Just over two minutes later, however, Tkachuk equalized for Ottawa. The Canadiens are winless in four games that have gone beyond regulation time this season.
Murray stopped 32 of 36 shots for his third victory of the season against the Canadiens. Carey Price saved 35 of 39 shots for Montreal.
Tkachuk and Brannstrom each scored power-play goals, ending Ottawa’s long drought with the extra attacker. The Senators entered the game scoreless in their last 24 power-play opportunities, dating back to Colin White’s score against Montreal on Feb. 6.
Ottawa’s Derek Stepan didn’t return to the game after suffering an upper-body injury in the first period.


Oilers erase three-goal hole, top Canucks
Dominik Kahun tallied twice and Tyler Ennis netted the winning goal as the visiting Edmonton Oilers scored four unanswered goals to beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 Tuesday night. Leon Draisaitl collected three assists and Connor McDavid also scored for the Oilers, who received a 30-save performance from goaltender Mike Smith to claim their fourth victory in a row and 10th in 12 outings – a run that has vaulted them into second place in the North Division.
The Oilers trailed 3-0 when Kahun put them on the board late in the first period. He sent a shot from the bottom of the right circle that Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko got a piece off, but the puck went off the post and off his back before trickling over the line with 77 seconds remaining in the frame.
After a scoreless second period, Kahun netted his second of the night 55 seconds into the third period. He was in nearly the same spot from which he scored his first goal when he one-timed a cross-ice pass from Draisaitl for his fourth goal of the season.
McDavid’s power-play goal – another one-timer set up by Draisaitl – evened the count at 4:23 of the third period.
Ennis completed the comeback when an Adam Larsson point shot ricocheted off a couple of players before also hitting his foot and going into the net with 6:35 left.
The result is just the latest disappointing defeat for the Canucks, who have just two wins in their past 12 games (2-8-2).
Needing a big start, the hosts received it when Bo Horvat opened the scoring 66 seconds into the game with a sharp-angled shot from nearly all the way in the corner that somehow beat Smith.
Tyler Myers doubled the lead with another lucky tally. His slap shot from the top of the right circle that redirected off the outreached stick of Ennis and went into the top corner at the 8:06 mark. The Canucks believed they had the game in control when Elias Pettersson converted during a scramble at the 15:17 mark to make it a 3-0 game, but they couldn’t hold on once the Oilers started buzzing.
Demko stopped 25 shots for the Canucks, and Pettersson had a two-point game.