After seeing the Montreal Canadiens' go-ahead goal waved off with under five seconds left in regulation the Sens picked up two points with a 5-4 shootout win Tuesday night at Canadian Tire Centre.
"That's just a gutsy win," Brady Tkachuk said. "We dug right in. It was a huge series for us and a proud moment for sure."
Tim Stützle and Josh Norris scored in the shootout while Matt Murray stopped Corey Perry and Jonathan Drouin.
"To do it against Carey Price … and the confidence for them to do that is spectacular," Sens head coach D.J. Smith said.
Montreal thought they had won the game at the death but after a review the call was overturned after it was deemed Brendan Gallagher had interfered with Murray.
After overtime solved nothing, where Murray denied Tyler Toffoli on a breakaway, the Sens' two rookies gave Ottawa the two points.
"I just tried to go in and keep it simple," Norris said. "I saw a little bit of room over his glove and was obviously able to sneak it by him so it feels really good."
Brady Tkachuk (2), Drake Batherson and Erik Brannstrom scored in regulation for the Sens (6-14-1) while Murray made 32 saves. Montreal's (9-5-4) Shea Weber (2), Toffoli and Drouin had goals while Carey Price turned away 35 shots.
It took all of 96 seconds for the Sens to jump out to the lead as Batherson scored his fifth of the year after taking a lovely Derek Stepan pass and then beating Price high with a backhander to make it 1-0.
Ottawa's lead was 2-0 at 9:57 on Tkachuk's first of the night as he scored his 50th career goal on the power play as his shot squeezed through Price as he grabbed his seventh of the season.
Montreal cut the deficit in half at 16:03 as Weber's shot from the right boards hit Nikita Zaitsev's skate and went in.
The Senators' lead was two goals once again 3:41 into the second as on the power play Brannstrom scored his first career NHL goal as his low shot from the point beat Price to make it 3-1.
"It feels great," Brannstrom said. "It's taken a while and I've been shooting more and more and I was glad to see it go in this time."
But the Canadiens came crawling back. Drouin made it 3-2 1:11 later before Weber's blast at 10:06 made it a 3-3 game after 40 minutes.
Montreal had its first lead of the night on Toffoli's 12th of the year at 8:06 of the third but it took Ottawa just 2:05 to make it 4-4 as Tkachuk again somehow managed to squeeze a puck through Price as his one-handed backhander off the right wing beat the veteran netminder.
The Senators survived the late drama in regulation and with the victory, picked up its second straight win.
"That was one of the crazier games I've been a part of," Tkachuk said.
Tkachuk became the youngest Senator to score 50 goals while Brannstrom became the fourth Sens player to score their first NHL goal this season after Stützle, Norris and Artem Zub.
With its power play goal in the first, Ottawa snapped a 0-for-26 goalless streak on the man advantage that dated more than eight games.
Stepan left the game after the first period with an upper-body injury and did not return.
Ottawa is back in action on Thursday when they face the Calgary Flames for the first time this season.
