Stutzle has 4 points, Senators rally late before defeating Flames in OT

OTTAWA --
Tim Stutzle
had a goal and three assists, including scoring 1:55 into overtime, and the Ottawa Senators rallied for a 4-3 win against the Calgary Flames at Canadian Tire Centre on Monday.

Stutzle entered the zone with speed and beat Jacob Markstrom short side with a wrist shot from the left circle.
Despite the four points, Stutzle said he didn't feel comfortable for most of the game.
"Not great, to be honest," he said. "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."
Stutzle's goal came after Ottawa scored twice in the final 2:14 of the third period to tie it.
Drake Batherson cut it to 3-2 at 17:46 on a rebound in crease, and Alex DeBrincat one-timed a pass from Stutzle to tie it 3-3 at 18:32. Both goals came with goalie Mads Sogaard pulled for the extra skater.
"There's four, five minutes left and you see a few people leaving, and before you know it, it's tied up," Batherson said. "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 also scored, and Sogaard made 34 saves in his first start of the season for Ottawa (25-24-3), which has won five of six.
"He looked really calm," Senators coach D.J. Smith said of Sogaard. "I mean, he's big, obviously (6-foot-7). Pucks hit him and he made the saves he had to make. They had plenty of chances, and he looked good, and obviously made a couple big saves in overtime."
Sogaard earned the start with the Senators missing their two top goaltenders: Cam Talbot (lower body) and Anton Forsberg (torn MCL in each knee).
"I was really confident in him," Stutzle said. "I knew it right before the game. He's a great goalie, a big guy, and an awesome guy. I'm really, really happy for him to get his first home win here. I couldn't be more excited to see him play the way he played."
Dillon Dube scored twice, Tyler Toffoli had a goal and an assist, and Markstrom made 21 saves for the Flames (25-18-11), who have lost three of four.
"I thought we played a [heck] of a game," Calgary coach Darryl Sutter said. "We ran out of gas a little bit when we went down to four [defensemen] there the last three or four minutes. I thought we ran out of gas. I thought we played really well."
Tkachuk gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at 6:10 of the first when he received a stretch pass from Stutzle and scored with a snap shot on a breakaway.

Dube tied it 1-1 at 14:47, redirecting Noah Hanifin's point shot on a power play.

Toffoli put the Flames ahead 2-1 at 5:55 of the second period with a wrist shot under Sogaard's glove from the left face-off dot.
"We had chances throughout the entire game to essentially put them away, and we didn't," Toffoli said. "We let them hang around. They're a team with a lot of skill and can do what they did."

Dube made it 3-1 at 6:40 of the third period when he redirected a pass from Toffoli five-hole on Sogaard.
"I thought we dominated the game," Sutter said. "I thought we totally dominated puck possession. Whether it's the next goal or the next save, I thought we were in total control of the game."
The Flames had outshot the Senators 36-21 prior to Batherson's goal.
"It's tough," Calgary forward Mikael Backlund said. "We played a really good game for 56 minutes, 57 minutes or so, and then we let it get out of our hands."
NOTES: Dube has 33 points (15 goals, 18 assists) in 54 games this season, an NHL career high. … The Senators set a franchise record for latest multigoal comeback victory. … Tkachuk scored his 111th NHL goal, the second-most by a player age 23 or younger in Ottawa history, behind Marian Hossa (135).