Defenseman Artem Zub scored the go-ahead objective 2:50 into the third interval, lifting the Ottawa Senators to a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday afternoon in Newark, N.J.
Zack Ostapchuk scored his first profession NHL objective for Ottawa, which has recorded factors in six straight video games (5-0-1). The Senators improved to 18-3-0 this season when scoring first.
Anton Forsberg made 25 saves to select up his first win since Nov. 25 in opposition to Calgary.
Tomas Tatar responded for the Devils, who’re winless in 4 straight video games (0-2-2) and misplaced 9 of their final 11 video games (2-6-3).
Zub made it 2-1 for the Senators early within the third interval, snapping a Shane Pinto move excessive blocker facet previous a screened Jacob Markstrom for his second objective of the season. Zub has two objectives in 4 video games after going 17 video games with out a objective.
Pinto has an help in back-to-back video games.
Ottawa opened the scoring at 13:16 of the center body as Ostapchuk snapped a shot shortside previous Markstrom,
Tatar responded for the Devils 1:18 later, beating Forsberg with a backhand shot to snap a 20-game drought.
Curtis Lazar snapped a 12-game stretch with out a level, choosing up the secondary help on Tatar’s fourth objective of the season.
With the Senators within the second sport of a back-to-back and travelling from Ottawa following a 6-5 shootout win on Saturday, the Devils took benefit of a drained workforce dominating the primary interval.
New Jersey, which had simply 13 photographs in Saturday’s 3-1 loss to the Flyers, outshot Ottawa 16-2 in a scoreless opening body.
Sunday was the second of three conferences between the Devils and Senators this season. New Jersey picked up a 3-1 win in Ottawa on Oct. 17. The groups conclude the season sequence on March 22 in New Jersey.
–Subject Stage Media