Greig gave the Senators a 1-0 lead at 4:08 of the second period. David Perron’s centering pass redirected in off of Greig’s skate at the edge of the crease. With the assist, Perron, who signed a two-year, $8 million contract with Ottawa on July 1, got his first point of the season in his 13th game with the Senators.
McMichael tied it 1-1 at 7:43 when he skated in from the right corner alone and beat Forsberg over the glove with a curl-and-drag wrist shot.
The Senators thought they had scored at 14:53 when Brady Tkachuk put in a rebound, but the Capitals challenged for goaltender interference and the call on the ice was overturned.
Norris made it 2-1 when he beat Lindgren blocker side with a wrist shot on a shorthanded penalty shot. Ottawa scored its second shorthanded goal in 38 seconds to make it 3-1 when Pinto scored on a Norris rebound on the rush.
“Just a good night for the boys all around,” Pinto said. “I think [it was] good to get the confidence up, you know, for the PP, and then obviously the PK. I think it’s been doing pretty well lately, and it’s just good to build on it, and a couple big goals.”
Strome cut it to 3-2 at 7:58 of the third period with a wrist shot from the top of the right face-off circle on the power play.
“I was really proud of the way we played, other than obviously some of the special teams stuff,” Washington coach Spencer Carbery said. “But 5-on-5, through the whole game, and then also the resiliency late in the third period, I thought we poured it on, especially in that last, whatever it was, 12 minutes, call it. I thought we had good opportunities to win that thing in regulation and get the fifth [goal]. So, a lot of positives, especially late in that game.”
Sanderson’s point shot beat a heavily screened Lindgren on the power play to make it 4-2 at 10:38.
“The more games you play in, that maybe aren't that crazy, but, they're tight games,” Norris said, “and there's not a ton of room out there, and whatever, if it’s a tie game or one-goal game, and you find a way to win those games, I think it gives you just a little bit of confidence and swagger, and just kind of has a compound effect. So, it's going well right now.”
NOTES: With the primary assist on Sanderson’s goal, Claude Giroux got his 1,100th NHL point. … Norris and Pinto’s shorthanded goals 38 seconds apart marked the third-fastest shorthanded goals in franchise history behind Dec. 27, 2001 (0:34) and Jan. 27, 2020 (0:35). … Chabot is the first player in Senators history to score a game-winning goal on his birthday.