Ottawa Senators vs Washington Capitals Match Player Stats On Feb 13, 2022

Anton Forsberg made 33 saves and Connor Brown and Brady Tkachuk each had a goal and an assist to lead the visiting Ottawa Senators to a 4-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon.

Alex Formenton had a short-handed goal and Adam Gaudette also scored for Ottawa, which snapped a 10-game losing streak to Washington dating back to a 3-0 victory on Jan. 24, 2017. It was also the Senators' first regular-season win at Washington since a 2-0 victory on Jan. 21, 2014. Chris Tierney added two assists.

Nicklas Backstrom scored for Washington, which suffered its fifth consecutive home regulation loss, the team's longest regulation home losing streak since dropping six in a row from Oct. 26-Nov. 24 of 2007. Ilya Samsonov finished with 22 saves.

Ottawa, playing its fifth game in seven days and coming off a 2-0 home loss to Boston on Saturday afternoon, jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 5:34 mark of the first period on a short-handed goal by Formenton, who one-timed a Connor Brown pass from the high slot for his 11th goal of the season. It was also snapped a 162-minute, 40-second scoreless drought for the Senators, who had been blanked in back-to-back games.

Gaudette made it 2-0 later in the period when he finished a two-on-one with Zach Sanford by deking Samsonov and tucking in a wrist shot around his left pad for his fifth goal of the season.

Washington cut it to 2-1 early in the second period on a power-play goal by Backstrom, who jammed in a rebound of an Alex Ovechkin one-timer between the pads of Forsberg for his fourth goal of the season.

Ottawa extended its lead to 3-1 just before the end of the period when Tkachuk, just back from the dressing room after taking a shot to the head from John Carlson, buried a rebound of a Josh Brown shot during a goalmouth scramble for his 15th goal of the season.

Brown then made it 4-1 midway through the third period with his seventh goal of the season when he fired a wrist shot from the top of the right circle past Samsonov's blocker side.

--Field Level Media