Senators hand Ducks a rare home loss with late goal

Andrew Knoll, The Orange County Register on Nov 21, 2025

Published in Hockey

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks’ flair for the dramatic had carried them to consecutive wins, but it was the Ottawa Senators who came up with a late goal to nudge past their hosts, 3-2, on Thursday night at Honda Center.

After tying Monday’s match with four seconds to play and winning Wednesday’s on a goal with 3:35 remaining, the Ducks nearly scored in the final minute again. Beckett Sennecke dropped to one knee to fire a puck that was sent wide by the edge of Linus Ullmark’s skate blade. Troy Terry also had a late chance, but his stick broke.

The Ducks lost for just the fourth time in their past 13 matches and just their second time in nine home games this season. The Senators had been off since Saturday, when they lost to the Los Angeles Kings, 1-0, to end a seven-game points streak.

Sennecke and Mason McTavish scored in the second period for the Ducks. Petr Mrázek made 22 saves.

Nick Cousins, Shane Pinto and Drake Batherson scored a goal apiece for Ottawa. Linus Ullmark stopped 24 shots.

Before the Ducks’ last-minute flurry of punches that failed to land, Batherson tipped Jake Sanderson’s heave from the point past Mrázek with 1:58 to play. Former King Jordan Spence earned the secondary assist.

Near-misses defined the early part of the second period, including Leo Carlsson’s ringing the post on a partial breakaway. Much of the mayhem was in the Ducks’ end, however, though Ottawa failed to cash in on its opportunities until after the Ducks scored two unanswered goals.

The Senators knotted the score anew with 58 seconds on the clock. A tempered transition left Pinto with the puck in the left circle, where he juked Terry and then took advantage of an ill-timed poke check by Mrázek to slip the puck home.

The Ducks had taken their first lead of the night with 5:26 left in the period. Chris Kreider, who played in his 900th career game, transported the puck through the neutral zone and feathered a pass to McTavish for a no-doubt redirection, his fourth goal of the year.

Their first goal also came off the rush, one that turned a broken play into a highlight.

It was Carlsson carrying the puck this time and centering it for Cutter Gauthier. He fanned on his shot attempt, but then dangled the puck between Artem Zub’s legs, emerging on the other side of the defender to make a slick backhand pass to Sennecke. His tap-in tally was his seventh goal, moving him into a three-way tie for the rookie lead.

The Ducks had courted disaster in their own zone during the opening 20 minutes, but some last-ditch defending kept the game scoreless until the 16:39 mark. Cousins keyed the sequence with a defensive-zone takeaway to cue a counterattack that culminated in his skating into Nick Jensen’s touch-pass to smoke a slapshot past Mrázek.