Stone's tally lifts Senators over Avs in Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Mark Stone's second goal of the night 59 seconds into overtime lifted the Ottawa Senators to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night.
Ottawa (7-3-5) won for the second time in three games behind Stone's second goal. Fredrik Claesson and Chris DiDomenico also registered goals while Craig Anderson made 16 saves
Colorado (8-7-0) lost its second straight game after a three-game winning streak. Alexander Kerfoot registered a goal and assist, and Nail Yakupov and Nathan MacKinnon added goals. Seymon Varlamov made 28 saves.
Stone took a feed from Derick Brassard and hit the open net with Varlamov out of position. Erik Karlsson earned the secondary assist on the game-winner.
The Avalanche knotted the game at 3 on MacKinnon's fifth goal of the season at 12:53 of the third period. MacKinnon was left alone at the goal mouth and converted a pass from Mikko Raatanen
Colorado took a 1-0 on a power play goal by Yakupov, his fourth of the season at 8:16 of the first period. Kerfoot's pass from behind the Ottawa goal found Yakupov in the slot for a one-timer.
Ottawa even the score at one 20 seconds later on Claesson's first goal of the season at 8:36 of the opening period. The Swedish native took a short pass from Mike Hoffman and banged a slap shot past Varlamov with Karlsson registering the secondary assist.
The Senators took a 2-1 lead on Stone's 10th goal at 15:10 of the first period. Stone was positioned directly in front of Varlamov to tip-in a slap shot from the left point by Johnny Oduya.
The Avalanche tied the game on Kerfoot's sixth goal at 9:41 of the second period. Kerfoot was stationed in the deep slot to tip home a shot from Blake Comeau, with Samuel Girard earning his first point with Colorado on the secondary assist.
Colorado's Matt Nieto was unsuccessful on a penalty shot at 18:33 of the second period, when he was fouled on a short-handed breakaway by Wideman.
Ottawa regained the lead at 3-2 on DeDomenico's third goal of the season at 13:21 of the second period. DeDemonico pounced on a loose puck in the goal crease when Varlamov was unable to control Dion Phaneuf's shot.
NOTES: The Avalanche were designated as the home team while the Senators will be the home side for Saturday night's game that starts one hour earlier at 7 p.m. local time. ... Ottawa did not dress LW Nick Paul and RW Jack Roewald. ... Colorado scratched LW A.J. Greer, C Carl Soderberg and D Andrei Mironov. Soderberg is back home in Denver awaiting the birth of his second child with his wife, Caroline.