Senators 3, Wild 2 (OT)
OTTAWA -- Erik Karlsson scored on a slap shot from the slot with 30.4 seconds left in overtime to give the Ottawa Senators a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night at Canadian Tire Centre.
The Senators forced the extra period with a goal off a rebound from the end boards with 7.1 seconds left in the third.
Ryan Carter and Nino Niederreiter scored for the Wild, while Mike Hoffman had the other Senators goal.
Craig Anderson stopped 23 shots in the Ottawa net while Devan Dubnyk made 17 saves.
The win kept the Senators' (33-30-8) slim playoff hopes alive, while the Wild (32-27-11) lost a valuable point in the Western Conference wild-card race.
Carter stepped out of the penalty box to break a 1-1 tie with his seventh of the season at 5:14 of the third. His deflection of a feathered, mid-air pass by Mikael Granlund beat Anderson on the short side.
The Senators had a power-play chance later in the period, but Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon blocked three shots.
The Senators, who had 12 shots on goal though two periods, tied the game on Hoffman's 26th of the season at 13:38 of the second period. From just inside the Minnesota blue line, Hoffman ended an eight-game slump with a wrist shot that beat a screened Dubnyk on the glove side.
Niederreiter opened the scoring just 1:33 into the opening period on Minnesota's first shot on goal. The 2-on-1 break saw Niederreiter fire a shot that beat Anderson on the stick side. It was his 16th goal of the season.
The Wild outshot the Senators 8-7 in the opening 20 minutes.
Minnesota's next game is Thursday in New Jersey, while the Senators are off until Friday's game in Buffalo.
NOTES: The Wild entered the night with at least one power play goal in a franchise-record 13 consecutive road games. ... Earlier in the day, the Senators signed F Francis Perron to an entry-level deal. Perron, Ottawa's seventh-round pick in the 2014 entry draft, is the second leading scorer in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with 107 points in 61 games. ... Wild LW Jason Zucker was scratched for the second game in a row. Zucker is sixth in Minnesota goal scoring with 12. ... The Wild also scratched D Mike Reilly and LW Chris Porter. Senators D Patrick Wiercioch and LW Matt Puempel were scratches.