Batherson breaks tie in 3rd, Senators pull away from Sharks to gain in wild card

Toffoli put San Jose ahead 2-1 at 14:43 by deflecting Ferraro’s point shot over Ullmark from in front of the crease.

Foegele tied it 2-2 at 4:31 of the second period. A pass up the ice by Ferraro was picked up by Michael Amadio, who was coming off the bench at the blue line. He then skated in and passed to Foegle, who sent it five-hole through Brossoit.

“I thought it was a great team effort,” Foegele said. “Guys are battling hard, and it’s a lot more fun winning than losing. I think we were just trying to attack the net a little bit more, be a little bit more direct and try to get inside. You never know if it’s going to go in if you don’t shoot it.”

Graf scored for the third straight game to put the Sharks back ahead 3-2 at 10:46. Macklin Celebrini sent the puck to the front of the net, where Graf won a puck battle against two Senators and got it over the glove of Ullmark.

“Exactly what we’re looking for from everyone in the lineup,” San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “Perfect example.”

Zetterlund tied it 3-3 at 13:40, scoring a power-play goal from the point to end a 13-game goal drought.

“We stuck with it,” Zetterlund said. “It wasn’t pretty all the time, but that’s the life of back-to-back, you got to keep it simple. But yeah, I think we played a solid game and really important points.”

Tyler Kleven gave Ottawa its first lead of the game, 4-3, a little more than a minute later at 14:45. The play started when Foegele picked up a turnover by Graf in the offensive zone and sent the puck to Zetterlund, who fed Kleven down low at the edge of the left face-off circle, where he beat Brossoit past the left post.

“I’m super frustrated about that,” Graf said. “It’s a mistake that can’t happen. There’s just poor execution on my part. I think for the rest of the period it was sort of the same idea.”

Michael Misa tied it 4-4 at 3:28 of the third period. He took a pass at the blue line and skated in before shooting to the top right corner.

“I just like how we just stuck with the game,” Green said. “Things weren’t going exactly how we planned. Sometimes that happens, but we just kept playing, having trust in our game that we would come out on the right side.”

NOTES: Batherson recorded his seventh multigoal game of 2025-26. The only Senators players who have posted at least as many in a single season over the past 15 years are Tkachuk (nine in 2023-34), Tim Stutzle (seven in 2022-23), Josh Norris (seven in 2021-22) and Milan Michalek (seven in 2011-12). … Celebrini extended his point streak to nine games (seven goals, seven assists).