For the second straight game, the Senators had to work a little overtime and again there was no payoff. Ottawa fell 3-2 in overtime to the Boston Bruins at TD Garden on Thursday night. Pavel Zacha buried the game winner after a soft, bad angle shot from Charlie McAvoy trickled through Linus Ullmark.

 It had to be a satisfying victory for former Senator goalie Joonas Korpisalo. He got the win, not only beating the guy who replaced him, but the guy he was traded for. On top of that, the Senators are still paying Korpisalo a million dollars a year to play against them. 

Boston outshot Ottawa 25-22 on the night and since getting hammered by the Senators late last month, the Bruins have reeled off five straight victories.

Michael Amadio got the Senators on the board first, scoring his fourth of the season just over five minutes into the game. It was a notable goal as Ottawa had managed to open the scoring only twice in their previous 13 games. On a two-on-one rush with Shane Pinto, Amadio took a perfect feed and snapped a shot past Joonas Korpisalo to give the Sens a 1–0 lead.

That advantage held until the second period, when Morgan Geekie tied things up with his 10th of the year.  Andrew Peeke's initial blast from the top of the right circle slipped through Linus Ullmark, and Geekie cleaned up the garbage, depositing the puck into the vacant net.

Just under four minutes later, Sean Kuraly put Boston ahead with his second of the season. The Senators’ defensive coverage completely broke down as Tanner Jeannot carried the puck harmlessly down the right wing, drawing both Thomas Chabot and Nick Cousins toward him. With Chabot out of position, Drake Batherson and Tim Stützle both caught puck-watching, Kuraly was wide open to bury Jeannot’s pass and give the Bruins a 2–1 lead.

Ottawa answered back early in the third. Claude Giroux evened the score at 2–2 when his wrist shot from the left faceoff dot dribbled through Korpisalo to tie the game once again.

Shane Pinto had several tremendous opportunities late in the game — two of them in the third period. He nearly won it in the final 10 seconds, but a perfect pass from Batherson skipped over his stick blade. Pinto also had a couple of great chances in overtime, all alone in tight on former Senator Joonas Korpisalo and trying to go to his backhand, but he couldn’t finish on either attempt.

With 42 seconds left in overtime, Ridly Greig was called for slashing as he dove to prevent a good scoring chance for David Pastrňák. Boston’s power play, however, lasted only three seconds, as Morgan Geekie was called for tripping Jake Sanderson right off the faceoff.

Then, with just six seconds remaining in overtime, Pavel Zacha won the game for the Bruins. Charlie McAvoy sprinted past Pinto and tried to send a backhand pass to the front of the net. Ullmark was down on his knees, and the puck slipped through his pads, sitting loose in the crease for Zacha to tap in and seal the victory.

The Senators fall to 0-3 in overtime this season, though they do have two shootout wins, and their record drops to 6-5-3. The Senators are in Philadelphia on Saturday for an early 1 pm start against the Flyers.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jesper Bratt scored on a breakaway 1:33 into overtime and the New Jersey Devils beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Thursday night.

Ondrej Palat and Timo Meier each had a goal, and Cody Glass also scored in his return from an injury for New Jersey, which got its second win in five games after winning eight straight. Jacob Markstrom stopped 16 shots.

Kirby Dach, Jake Evans and Oliver Kapanen scored for Montreal, and Noah Dobson had two assists. Jakub Dobes finished with 24 saves as the Canadiens lost their second straight and had their four-game (3-0-1) point streak snapped.

In the extra period, Bratt stole the puck, raced up the ice, skated in on Dobes and put a backhander through his pads for the win.

With Markstrom pulled for an extra skater, Meier tied it for New Jersey from the side of the net with 1:10 remaining in regulation off a furious scramble in front.

Kapanen put the Canadiens ahead as he scored on a backhander in front on a rebound with 9:27 remaining.

Evans tied the score 2-all just 59 seconds into the third, sending a shot along the ice into the right corner of the net as Markstrom failed to block it off with his pad.

Palat gave the Devils a 2-1 lead with his first goal of the season at 8:05 of the second. Simon Nemec got the rebound of his own shot from the right side and send a backhanded pass back to Palat from behind the goal line, and Palat put it past Dobes.

Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton left the game early in the middle period and did not return.

Glass, back after missing seven games with an undisclosed injury, gave the Devils a 1-0 lead at 1:53 as he grabbed the puck at the blue line, skated into the left circle and fired a shot past Dobes. It was Glass’ third.

Dach, who scored twice in Montreal’s 5-4 shootout loss to Philadelphia on Tuesday, tied it at 2:59. Canadiens defenseman Noah Dobson sent a long point shot at the net and it deflected off Dach and in for his fourth.

Up next

Canadiens: Host Utah on Saturday to open a four-game homestand.

Devils: Host Pittsburgh on Saturday.

One of the Philadelphia Flyers' biggest needs right now is another defenseman. Their left side, in particular, could use a boost. 

With it being so early in the season, the trade market is pretty quiet. Yet, while this is the case, there is an interesting Boston Bruins defenseman who is starting to create some speculation: Mason Lohei.

Lohrei has now been scratched five games in a row by the Bruins. Due to Lohrei being scratched so often, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman wrote in his latest 32 Thoughts column that teams could call the Bruins about the left-shot defenseman.

"I don’t know that there’s anything going on trade-wise with Mason Lohrei," Friedman wrote. "But I do know that when a talented, young player like him sits four games in a row, others call and ask what’s up."

With Lohrei being just 24 years old, he could be a very interesting player for the Flyers to pursue if the Bruins make him available. The 2020 second-round pick has shown early on his career that he can make an impact as an offensive defenseman. Furthermore, he is young enough that he still could improve in the right situation. 

During this past season with the Bruins, Lohrei recorded five goals, 28 assists, and 33 points in 77 games. He has also had a good start to the 2025-26 season offensively, posting one goal and six points in 11 games. This included him recording three assists against the Colorado Avalanche on Oct. 25.

However, defensive troubles have been a common theme with Lohrei early on in his career. The Louisiana native had an NHL-worst minus-43 on a bad Bruins club in 2024-25. He has also run into issues defensively this season, which has played a role in him being scratched for multiple games by Boston. 

Yet, even with his defensive issues, Lohrei's offensive skill could make him an intriguing player for the Flyers to target if he ends up being shopped. This is especially so when noting that he is still young enough to be a nice fit in Philadelphia's rebuild and improve his defensive game. 

The Carolina Hurricanes are down yet another defenseman as Jalen Chatfield was injured in the first period of the Canes' Thursday night game against the Minnesota Wild.

Chatfield was moving a puck out of his defensive zone when Minnesota Wild forward Tyler Pitlick came and delivered a hit right to the Hurricanes defenseman's head.

#mnwild forward Tyler Pitlick earns the first match penalty of the NHL season for an illegal check to the head of #Canes defender Jalen Chatfield.

Pitlick is automatically suspended pending league review. pic.twitter.com/JMuNedWO6W

— NHL News (@PuckReportNHL) November 7, 2025

The blueliner stayed down on the ice for an extended period of time and then went immediately to the room following the hit.

Pitlick was assessed a match penalty for an illegal check to the head, meaning he is essentially kicked out of tonight's game and is automatically suspended pending league approval.

Chatfield is the fourth Hurricanes blueline regular to be injured this season, just 13 games into the year.

Updates will be provided once made available.

UPDATE: Chatfield has officially been ruled out for the remainder of the game with an upper-body injury.

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Flyers pick up second straight road win, improve to 7-3-0 in last 10 games originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Dan Vladar and the Flyers delivered a 3-1 win Thursday night over the Predators at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.

The 28-year-old goaltender surrendered two or fewer goals for the seventh time in nine starts.

Matvei Michkov, Noah Cates and Travis Konecny provided the goals for the Flyers (8-5-1), who have gone 7-3-0 in their last 10 games.

Konecny (one goal, one assist) and Cam York (two assists) had multi-point performances.

Rick Tocchet’s club won consecutive road games this week to remove some of the bad taste from an ugly back-to-back set at home last weekend.

The Flyers swept the two-game regular-season series from the Predators (5-7-4). They beat Nashville a week ago, 4-1, at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

• Vladar really battled to help the Flyers survive a few hectic moments.

The free-agent addition converted 23 saves on 24 shots.

The Predators struck just 1:44 minutes into the action when a shot went off two bodies in front and past Vladar. The puck first hit Jamie Drysdale up high and then barely clipped Ryan O’Reilly, who was credited with the goal.

Vladar was very good the rest of the way, converting 19 of his saves over the first two periods and giving the Flyers a chance to take a 2-1 lead into the final frame.

Samuel Ersson returned from his lower-body injury to back up Vladar. Jacob Gaucher was sent back to AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley to make room for Ersson.

One would think Aleksei Kolosov will eventually join Gaucher after the Flyers travel home. Considering that Ersson battled lower-body issues last season, the Flyers could keep Kolosov in the picture a little longer for precautionary reasons.

Nashville netminder Juuse Saros stopped 23 of the Flyers’ 25 shots. Konecny’s marker was an empty-netter.

• Michkov’s goal was a big one for the Flyers and they hope it’s a big one for him, too.

The 20-year-old winger had gone nine straight games without a goal. This was his second of the season and it tied the game at 1-1 early in the second period. York found him and now has eight assists in 11 games.

Then, late in the middle stanza, the Flyers grabbed the lead thanks to an excellent forecheck. Cates finished the sequence with his fourth goal and 10th point of the season. Konecny extended his point streak to six games with a secondary assist.

• The Flyers’ penalty kill went 3 for 3 and is now operating at 87.8 percent. It turned away two Predators power plays in the third period to nail down the win.

The Flyers’ power play, which had produced six goals over the previous six games, went 0 for 1.

• The Flyers come home for a matchup Saturday against the Senators (1 p.m. ET/NBCSP).