Mar 2, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Flyers right wing Garnet Hathaway (19) battles against Ottawa Senators defenseman Jakob Chychrun (6) and center Tim Stutzle (18) during the third period at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports
Sens Collapse in Third Period, Fall 7–2 to Canes
The Ottawa Senators mounted a couple mini-comebacks in this game, erasing deficits to make it 1–1 and 2–2. However, the Canes opened things up with four unanswered goals to start the third, and Ottawa couldn’t make it back. Thomas Chabot had a goal and an assist in his return to the lineup, and Anton Forsberg made 31 saves in the loss. It was a match-up that was going pretty well….until it wasn’t.
The game was off to a weird start in that the Sens were in their away whites because the Hurricanes had brought their home blacks to play the Leafs yesterday, who wore their white St. Pats jerseys, and apparently NHL teams
aren’t allowed to bring a change of clothes. The first goal of the game was another weird one, in that Thomas Chabot made a bad pinch as a powerplay ended, Claude Giroux messed up his coverage, and defenceman Dmitry Orlov got in on a breakaway against Anton Forsberg. Noted friend of the Sens Brendan Lemieux got the primary assist on that one. Chabot wasn’t going to let that play define his first game back though, so he scored a beauty goal from what I would have thought was an impossible angle:
In the dying seconds of the first, Dominik Kubalik got forced into a hold. Mathieu Joseph got a little too eager on a stick tap on the PK, and gifted the Hurricanes a 5-on-3. The Sens killed the -on-3 part, but then Evgeny Kuznetsov scored just after it turned into an -on-4. Personally, I love seeing a guy come back from the player assistance program and be successful. It continued to be back-and-forth though, and Tim Stützle put on the moves to get the tying goal:
