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Washington Capitals at Ottawa Senators

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Drake Batherson scores twice, Senators beat Capitals 5-2

Shane Pinto broke a tie in third and Tyler Motte and Alex DeBrincat added empty-net goals. Anton Forsberg stopped 22 shots.

“It’s a different team here and there’s more maturity, and they’re able to be more composed and they’re able to turn it up another gear,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said. “Clearly, we weren’t at the gear we wanted to be, but give that dressing room credit. Those guys, you know what they did is got themselves ready for the second and third.”

T.J. Oshie and Anthony Mantha scored for Washington on first-period power plays. Darcy Kuemper made 39 saves.

“I feel like the first 20 (minutes) we were chipping pucks with speed, going on the forecheck and turning pucks over,” Oshie said. “By the end of the first, I thought we’d backed them up a little bit. I believe we had some entries just by carrying the puck.

“We were shooting, we were supporting each other, and that kind of just went away. I don’t know, maybe they tired us out or we got a little overconfident with the puck, or whatever it was.”

Ottawa took the lead 5:53 into the third when Tyler Motte found a trailing Pinto, who scored on a wrist shot from the slot. Pinto has goals in three straight games.

Moments later, Forsberg made a save on Marcus Johansson to preserve the lead.

“I just tried to get something over there and I was kind of lucky it hit my glove,” Forsberg said. “I mean obviously that’s one of the saves you want to make as a kid so it’s always nice.”

Pinto played just five games last season because of a shoulder injury.

“Just to play a game, that’s all I wanted to do,” Pinto said. “But definitely to help the team win, that’s what I wanted to do coming into this year, but I definitely visualized this.”

UP NEXT

Capitals: Host Los Angeles on Saturday night.

Senators: Host Arizona on Saturday.

Regular Season Series

OTT leads series 1-0

Scoring Summary

Goal 1st Period 10:01 Goal scored by T.J. Oshie assisted by Marcus Johansson and John Carlson (PPG)
Goal 1st Period 10:35 Goal scored by Anthony Mantha assisted by Dmitry Orlov and Conor Sheary (PPG)
Goal 2nd Period 5:48 Goal scored by Drake Batherson assisted by Brady Tkachuk and Alex DeBrincat (PPG)
Goal 2nd Period 7:39 Goal scored by Drake Batherson assisted by Thomas Chabot and Brady Tkachuk (PPG)
Goal 3rd Period 5:53 Goal scored by Shane Pinto assisted by Tyler Motte and Mathieu Joseph
Goal 3rd Period 19:23 Goal scored by Tyler Motte (EN)
Goal 3rd Period 19:52 Goal scored by Alex DeBrincat assisted by Claude Giroux (EN)

Statistics

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21 Blocked Shots 12
24 Hits 28
3 Takeaways 4
24 Shots 44
2 Power Play Goals 2
4 Power Play Opportunities 4
50.0 Power Play Percentage 50.0
0 Short Handed Goals 0
0 Shootout Goals 0
19 Faceoffs Won 34
35.8 Faceoff Win Percent 64.2
6 Giveaways 17
6 Total Penalties 6
15 Penalty Minutes 15
Ottawa Senators Ottawa Senators Injuries
NAME, POS STATUS DATE
Nick Jensen, D Out Mar 17
Jake Sanderson, D Out Mar 9
Washington Capitals Washington Capitals Injuries
NAME, POS STATUS DATE
David Kampf, C Out Mar 18
Eriks Mateiko, LW Out Jan 13

Game Information

Canadian Tire Centre

Location: Ottawa, ON
Attendance: 14,210 | Capacity:

2025-26 Metropolitan Division Standings

TEAM W L PTS OTL
Carolina 43 19 92 6
Pittsburgh 34 18 84 16
NY Islanders 39 24 83 5
Columbus 35 21 81 11
Philadelphia 32 23 76 12
Washington 34 27 76 8
New Jersey 35 31 72 2
NY Rangers 28 32 64 8

2025-26 Atlantic Division Standings

TEAM W L PTS OTL
Buffalo 42 20 90 6
Tampa Bay 41 21 86 4
Montreal 37 20 84 10
Boston 37 23 82 8
Detroit 37 23 82 8
Ottawa 34 24 77 9
Toronto 29 28 70 12
Florida 33 31 69 3
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