On Sunday afternoon, the Ottawa Senators headed to the Prudential Heart to tackle the New Jersey Devils. The Senators stayed crimson sizzling as Anton Forsberg stopped 25 of 26 in a 2-1 victory. The Sens now enhance to 24-18-4; the Devils fall to 26-17-6.
Recreation Recap
After having simply 13 pictures the day earlier than, the Devils stormed out of the gate. They fully dominated the primary interval, outshooting the Senators 17-2…however didn’t discover the again of the online.
The second interval was fairly even and low occasion, till about halfway by means of when the Senators began gaining again some momentum. Then, Zack Ostapchuk fired one previous Jacob Markstrom for his first NHL objective. However a minute and a half later, Tomas Tatar scored his first objective since Nov. 23 (20 video games). The Senators made a great push, however Markstrom stood tall, sending each groups into the third knotted at one.
Simply 2:50 into the third body, there was one other unlikely Senators objective scorer, as Artem Zub wristed one by means of for his second of the season.
You simply KNOW Zub needed to do it to ’em 👊 #GoSensGo pic.twitter.com/r4WmZWvKDA
— Ottawa Senators (@Senators) January 19, 2025
The Devils couldn’t get something going the remainder of the interval. Then they had been unable to knot it up with the additional attacker, and that was that.
The Devils will stay dwelling on Wednesday in opposition to the Boston Bruins, the place they’ll add Jacques Lemaire to their Ring of Honor. The Senators will take the ~13-mile journey to Madison Sq. Backyard to face the New York Rangers on Tuesday night time.
