J.T. Miller scored at 1:40 of overtime and Thatcher Demko made 44 saves as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the host Ottawa Senators 3-2 Monday night.
Jayce Hawryluk and Tanner Pearson also scored for the Canucks, who have won five of their past six games despite the absence of first-line center Elias Pettersson (upper-body injury). Coach Travis Green said Pettersson wouldn't join the Canucks on their current four-game trip, which got underway Monday.
Josh Norris and Colin White scored for the Senators and goaltender Joey Daccord, who posted his first NHL victory with a 4-3 decision against visiting Toronto the previous night, stopped 25 of 28 shots.
Miller's winner came after he took a pass from Quinn Hughes just outside the Senators' blue line while they were making a line change. Miller sped past a defender as he crossed the blue line and beat a sprawling Daccord with a forehand from close range.
The Senators rallied from a 2-0 first-period deficit, tying the score on White's goal at 17:50 of the third period. With Daccord on the bench for an extra attacker, Demko tried to move the puck along the boards from behind his own net. Ottawa's Brady Tkachuk beat a defenseman to the puck and fired to White in the high slot for a one-timer to make it 2-2.
White's goal made up for a bad turnover on Vancouver's second goal at 18:49 of the first. Four players -- two from each team -- were jostling for the puck behind the Ottawa net when White scooped a backhander off the boards and right in front of his own net, where a wide-open Pearson hammered it home.
Hawryluk's first goal of the season, after a mad scramble in front of the net, opened the scoring at 10:14 of the first.
The Senators pulled within 2-1 at 3:52 of the second, with Norris scoring off the rebound of a shot by Tim Stutzle.
Demko improved to 6-1-0 over his past seven starts.
--Field Level Media
Vancouver | Ottawa | |
Jayce Hawryluk 1 | Points | Josh Norris 1 |
Jayce Hawryluk 1 | Goals | Josh Norris 1 |
Jordie Benn 1 | Assists | Tim Stutzle 1 |
N/A | Power Play Goals | N/A |
N/A | Short Handed Goals | N/A |
Thatcher Demko .957 | Save Percentage | Joey Daccord .893 |
Thatcher Demko 44 | Saves | Joey Daccord 25 |
Team | Shots | Goals | Power Play | Penalty Kill | Penalty Mins | Face Offs Won |
Vancouver | 28 | 3 | 0-1 | 4-4 | 8 | 37 |
Ottawa | 46 | 2 | 0-4 | 1-1 | 2 | 37 |