Norris scores in OT to give Senators win against Kings

OTTAWA -- Josh Norris scored 56 seconds into overtime to give the Ottawa Senators an 8-7 win against the Los Angeles Kings at Canadian Tire Centre on Monday.

"That was fun," Norris said. "I don't think you get too many of those games. I think it was, whatever, 15 goals in one game, but you've got to take it as the game comes and sometimes that happens. I thought we were resilient and hung in there."

Norris, who had two goals and an assist, beat Darcy Kuemper between his pads with a snap shot from the slot in overtime.

"Couldn't be happier for the guy," Ottawa defenseman Thomas Chabot said of Norris, who had his third shoulder surgery in his first five NHL seasons in March. "He's been through a lot the last couple of years and obviously as players you know how hard it is mentally for him. Just seeing him back to the old Josh Norris that we know, and he gets a chance and finds the back of the net. That's the guy that we all know and that's the guy that never lost confidence and trust in himself."

Zack MacEwen scored twice, Drake Batherson had a goal and two assists, Brady Tkachukhad three assists and Jake Sanderson and Chabot each had a goal and an assist for the Senators (2-1-0), who rallied from three two-goal deficits.

Ottawa was without starting goaltender Linus Ullmark because of an undisclosed injury. Mads Sogaard made 12 saves on 16 shots in relief of Anton Forsberg, who allowed three goals on nine shots.

Alex Laferriere and Kevin Fiala each scored twice for the Kings (1-0-2), and Brandt Clarke and Anze Kopitar each had three assists. Kuemper made 33 saves.

"We were up, but I don't think at any point we felt like we were in control of the game," Los Angeles coach Jim Hiller said. "We were pretty opportunistic to be up 4-2, so there was no real shift for me. It was just us trying to get playing the type of game that we needed to get playing. And I don't know that we got that for more than three or four shifts."

Senators defenseman Artem Zub left at 6:30 of the first period because of an upper-body injury sustained on a hit from Los Angeles forward Tanner Jeannot. Coach Travis Green did not have an update on Zub's condition after the game.

Fiala one-timed a pass from Kopitar on the power play to give the Kings a 1-0 lead at 8:12 of the first period. Alex Turcotte's shot deflected in off Trevor Lewis' body to make it 2-0 at 9:07.

Sanderson cut it to 2-1 at 10:25 when he beat Kuemper with a wrist shot over the glove from the slot on the power play.

Adrian Kempe one-timed a pass from Clarke on the power play to make it 3-1 at 5:31 of the second period.

MacEwen made it 3-2 at 10:26, but Laferriere tipped a centering pass from Kyle Burroughs to put Los Angeles ahead 4-2 at 11:16.

"We're up 4-2 in the second period and that's ... I don't care that they come back or whatever," Kempe said. "We have to shut the game down at that point. Unacceptable from our side. Defending poorly, careless, everything wasn't clicking tonight."

Batherson scored on the power play to cut it to 4-3 at 15:13, and Chabot out-waited Kuemper and scored into an open net to tie it 4-4 at 15:32.

"We didn't bring our checking game. That's the bottom line for me," Hiller said. "We didn't have the mindset to check. It turned into a crazy game that we could have won, but there's a reason that we didn't win it."

Fiala beat Sogaard with a wrist shot from the point on the power play to make it 5-4 at 16:25.

MacEwen scored his second goal of the game at 17:52 to tie it 5-5.

"I thought he was great tonight," Norris said of MacEwen. "He does a lot of little things that go unnoticed, whether it's taking a hit or giving a hit, or obviously a big fight against one of the toughest guys in the league [Jeannot]. And then he scores a couple goals, kind of the cherry on top."

Laferriere scored on a partial break to give the Kings a 6-5 lead at 3:38 of the third period.

Claude Giroux tied it 6-6 at 5:25 with a backhand from in tight on the power play. Norris beat Kuemper with a wrist shot from the slot on the power play to give Ottawa its first lead, 7-6, at 9:18.

"When we were at our game, and it felt like it was most of the night, we were the better team," Tkachuk said. "Whenever adversity hit, we just stuck with it, and you get rewarded for hard work."

Jeannot chipped the puck over Sogaard's blocker to tie it 7-7 at 14:26.

"We had three pucks that bounced in off of our own guys, probably a couple that we'd like to have back," Green said. "But the resiliency that we showed, we've talked about that a lot since Day 1. Sticking with the process, and I like how we did that tonight."

NOTES: The Senators (4-for-6) and Kings (3-for-5) combined for seven power-play goals, the most in an NHL game since Jan. 15, 2014 when the Anaheim Ducks and Vancouver Canucks also combined for seven. … Ottawa scored eight goals in a game for the first time since Dec. 14, 2021, an 8-2 win at the Florida Panthers. … It was MacEwen's second two-goal NHL game (also March 6, 2020).