Sharks Defeat Senators 6-3 in Entertaining Battle

Heading into tonight’s extremely late 10:30 EST game against the San Jose Sharks, the Ottawa Senators had gone 1-7-1 in their last 9 games. They had lost their first game (7-5 to Colorado on Monday) since having games postponed due to covid and were looking to finally get some more wins under their belt while facing Erik Karlsson and the Sharks for the second time this season.

One of the game’s first events was a tilt between Austin Watson and Jacob Middleton that sort of came out of nowhere. It didn’t lead to an immediate bump for the Senators though, as Matt Nieto scored the first goal 7:16 into the game. Chris Tierney was unable to keep the puck in, and a bad pinch from Lassi Thomson led…