Ottawa Senators beat Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 at PPG Paints Arena, extend point streak to five games

By Vancouver Television Sports Desk

PITTSBURGH — The Ottawa Senators continued their recent run with a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday. Ottawa scored four times to finish with a record of 13-6-2, and the win extended the Senators’ point streak to five consecutive games at 4-0-1 during that span.

Michael Amadio led the Senators’ scoring with a goal and an assist. Linus Ullmark recorded 16 saves for Ottawa in the win, while the Penguins were held to one goal and finished with Sergei Murashov making 30 saves. Pittsburgh’s record moved to 7-11-2 as the club alternated wins and losses in its previous five games, sitting at 2-3-0 over that stretch.

Pittsburgh nearly took the lead early in the first period when Egor Chinakhov had a breakaway opportunity at 3:07, but his shot struck the left post. The Senators then had their first major scoring moment when Tommy Novak appeared to make it 1-0 at 6:38, only for the goal to be disallowed after Ottawa’s challenge resulted in the play being ruled offside. Novak and Chinakhov ultimately connected for the opening goal later in the period, as Chinakhov set up a wrist shot from Novak at 19:52 to put the Penguins ahead 1-0.

Ottawa answered in the second period with an equalizer from Amadio. At 8:41, Amadio intercepted a pass from Pittsburgh forward Connor Dewar and immediately scored from the slot on a wrist shot to tie the game 1-1. The Senators then took the lead at 16:12 when Claude Giroux scored on a partial breakaway after a backhand pass from Penguins forward Ben Kindel struck Amadio’s skate and deflected to Giroux, who slipped the puck past Murashov’s right pad to make it 2-1.

In the third period, the scoring continued to build for Ottawa. Tim Stützle extended the lead to 3-1 at 14:18, snapping a wrist shot off the inside of Murashov’s left skate after falling to his knees in the left face-off circle. Thomas Chabot sealed the result with an empty-net goal at 19:28, setting the final score at 4-1.