AHL Belleville Senators

Sens Win a Wild One over Toronto in Overtime

Published on February 5, 2019 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Belleville Senators News Release


Logan Brown scored the overtime winner as the Belleville Senators beat the Toronto Marlies 7-6 Tuesday night.

Aaron Luchuk (2), Erik Burgdoerfer, Jordan Murray, Nick Paul and Drake Batherson scored for the Senators in regulation while Marcus Hogberg turned aside 38 shots. Michael Hutchinson made 27 saves while Jeremy Bracco, Sam Gagner, Chris Mueller, Michael Carcone, Andreas Borgman and Frank Corrado scored for Toronto.

Brown buried the game-winner at 4:12 as he converted Batherson's centering pass as the Senators collected two very important points in their chase for a playoff spot in the North Division.

Tied at 4-4 after 40 minutes, Luchuk grabbed his second of the night as he took advantage of an errant Sam Jardine pass to snap a wrister past Hutchinson with 14:26 to play to give Belleville a one-goal lead. Twenty seconds later, it was 6-4 Belleville as Batherson finished off a gorgeous tic-tac-toe power play that was set-up by Logan Brown and Filip Chlapik.

Borgman cut the Belleville lead to 6-5 as he beat Hogberg with a backhander after a nice back-and-forth with Sam Gagner before Corrado tied the game with 5:04 left on a wrister from inside the blue line that Hogberg was screened on.

After Hogberg made a big save inside the opening 30 seconds of the game by turning away Pierre Engvall on a breakaway, Burgdoerfer gave Belleville the lead at 1:18 as after a returning Paul drove the net, he lost the puck in the crease but the Sens captain was on hand to tap in his fourth goal of the year.

Bracco tied the game at 7:36 through Bracco as he deposited Mueller's cross-ice feed into a gaping net for his 13th of the year to make it 1-1. The hosts made it 2-1 with 7:02 left in the period as Trevor Moore squeaked the puck out from the corner to Gagner who beat Hogberg high from the slot.

But Belleville battled back to make it 2-2 only 1:08 later as Murray's shot from the blue line found its way through traffic as his sixth of the year tied things up once again.

After getting robbed by the right pad of Hogberg inside the opening minute of the second, Mueller beat the Swedish netminder on a breakaway at 10:26 after a stretch pass from Bracco from inside his own blue line to give Toronto a 3-2 advantage. Belleville found an equalizer at 13:58 as Brown boxed out a Marlies defender for Paul to collect a loose puck and fire a wrister from the slot for his third of the year.

The Sens took a 4-3 lead with 2:01 left in the second as Luchuk redirected Andreas Englund's point shot for his third of the season but the Marlies tied it 31 seconds later through Carcone out front.

Batherson collected the secondary assist on Burgdoerfer's goal which put his point streak to six games, a new franchise record. Sens forward Tobias Lindberg played in his 200th AHL game while d-man Pat Sieloff played in his 250th.

Andrew Sturtz returned to the Belleville line-up after a 12-game absence.

Belleville is back in action Friday against Laval and returns home the following day to host the Rocket. Tickets are available.

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