Giordano’s OT winner completes Maple Leafs’ comeback over Senators

Mark Giordano scored the overtime winner Saturday night as Toronto beat the Ottawa Senators 5-4 to the delight of the numerous Maple Leafs fans on hand at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.

Mitchell Marner scored two goals, with Michael Bunting (49-20-6), and Kyle Clifford (49-20-6). Erik Kallgren stopped 25 shots.

Tim Stutzle was the Senators’ (28-40-7), with two goals. Dylan Gambrell, Michael Del Zotto, and Dylan Gambrell also contributed. Anton Forsberg was able to save 36 shots.

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Stutzle broke the tie at 3-3 at the sixth minute mark of the third. He took advantage of an Ilya Lyubushkin giveaway to bury his 20th and second games of the season.

Stutzle’s eight most recent games have seen him score six goals as well as seven assists.

Marner scored his second goal of the game, at the half-way point of the period, making it 4-4.

The Leafs trailed 2-0 to begin the second half. However, they came back to tie it 3-3 after forty minutes.

Midway through the second, Ottawa led 3-1. Austin Watson scored through traffic and Gambrell put it past Kallgren. Watson scored his 100th career assist in the 400th NHL game.

Just over a minute later, Toronto made it a one goal game when Bunting was able thump home a puck from close to the net. Marner tied the game in the final period when he one-timed T.J. Brodie’s drop pass from at the top of his faceoff circle.

The Senators could not have asked for a better start, jumping to a 2-0 lead in the first period.

Brady Tkachuk handed the puck through the slot to Stutzle on a rush of two-on-zero. Stutzle onetimed it home to open scoring

Del Zotto made it two in the final period with a shot off the blue line that passed over Timothy Liljegren.