OTTAWA – Erik Karlsson scored the winner 1:21 into overtime to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 4-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday.
Vancouver was up 3-0 at one point, but Ottawa scored four unanswered goals to win the game and snap a
five-game losing streak (0-4-1).
Mika Zibanejad led the way for the Senators (10-11-5) with two goals and two assists. David Legwand also scored as Craig Anderson faced 33 shots.
Vancouver lost their seconds straight game, the first time that’s happened since the middle of October.
Radim Vrbata, Kevin Bieksa and Brad Richardson scored for Vancouver (18-8-1) as Eddie Lack faced 45 shots.
WATCH: Radim Vrbata’s nifty first period goal
Things looked bleak for the Senators when the Canucks took a 3-0 lead early in the second as Richardson took advantage of a Chris Phillips giveaway and walked in to beat Anderson.
Ottawa’s comeback bid started midway through the third as Legwand scored a power-play goal.
Zibanejad made it 3-2 at 14:12 of the second as he picked up his own rebound and banked it in off Yannick Weber.
Zibanejad, with his first two goal game, completed the comeback with just over one minute remaining in the period as he took a pass from Bobby Ryan and beat Lack off his backhand.
Vancouver opened the scoring at 6:10 of the first as Vrbata showed great skill and patience as he had a nice deke to get around Anderson and score into an open net.
Just over one minute later Bieksa made it 2-0 as his shot from just inside the blue-line made it through traffic.
The Canucks have won three of six games on their season-high seven game road trip.
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