Game

Devils at Senators

Devils 4, Senators 3 · first star Arseny Gritsyuk (1 G, 2 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

New Jersey Devils 4 at Ottawa Senators 3

Devils NJD

4 FINAL 3

Senators OTT

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Devils	2	1	1	4	32
Senators	2	1	0	3	38

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Devils attack left, Senators attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: NJD 32, OTT 38.

NJD in red OTT in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Devils 32 shots on goal (4 goals, 11 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Senators 38 shots on goal (3 goals, 20 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT	OTT SOG	OTT G	OTT ATT
1st	14	2	23	10	2	19
2nd	9	1	16	10	1	26
3rd	9	1	16	18	0	32
Total	32	4	55	38	3	77

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NJD SOG	NJD G	OTT SOG	OTT G
Even strength	25	4	34	0
Power play	6	0	4	3
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Senators took 58.3% of the shot attempts, and 62.2% of the 98 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Senators and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Devils hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Devils at Senators
Period	OTT CF%	OTT FF%
1st	45.2	47.2
2nd	61.9	60.0
3rd	66.7	65.7
Game	58.3	57.4

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

01:36 Drake Batherson (11) PP Brady Tkachuk (7), Jake Sanderson (18) · wrist 0–1
05:09 Simon Nemec (7) Connor Brown (4), Arseny Gritsyuk (8) · slap 1–1
12:59 Tim Stützle (12) PP Brady Tkachuk (8), Dylan Cozens (9) · wrist 1–2
17:59 Arseny Gritsyuk (7) Connor Brown (5), Cody Glass (1) · wrist 2–2

2nd period

04:21 Paul Cotter (3) Unassisted · backhand 3–2
10:35 Drake Batherson (12) PP Dylan Cozens (10), Tim Stützle (14) · wrist 3–3

3rd period

12:24 Cody Glass (5) Arseny Gritsyuk (9), Connor Brown (6) · wrist 4–3

Three stars

Arseny Gritsyuk NJD · R #81 · 1 G, 2 A
Connor Brown NJD · R #16 · 0 G, 3 A
Drake Batherson OTT · R #19 · 2 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	00:36	NJD	Stefan Noesen	high sticking	2	Brady Tkachuk
1st	01:46	OTT	Nikolas Matinpalo	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
1st	11:31	NJD	Brenden Dillon	tripping	2	Tim Stützle
2nd	02:52	NJD	Angus Crookshank	roughing	2	Tyler Kleven
2nd	02:52	OTT	Tyler Kleven	roughing	2	Angus Crookshank
2nd	06:06	OTT	Artem Zub	high sticking	2	Ondrej Palat
2nd	09:32	NJD	Nico Hischier	slashing	2	Fabian Zetterlund
3rd	06:46	OTT	Brady Tkachuk	interference goalkeeper	2	Jacob Markstrom

Boxscore

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Arseny Gritsyuk #81	R	1	2	3	+3	3	0	0	0	0.0	14:33
Connor Brown #16	R	0	3	3	+3	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:36
Cody Glass #12	C	1	1	2	+3	4	0	0	0	52.9	12:34
Paul Cotter #47	L	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	07:41
Simon Nemec #17	D	1	0	1	+2	5	0	1	0	0.0	19:35
Angus Crookshank #36	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	06:42
Dawson Mercer #91	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	30.8	20:22
Luke Glendening #14	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	37.5	10:48
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	47.6	21:57
Jesper Bratt #63	L	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	20:44
Ondrej Palat #18	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	15:23
Stefan Noesen #11	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	100.0	13:02
Timo Meier #28	R	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	50.0	19:57
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	0	0	+2	0	4	2	2	0.0	20:14
Colton White #45	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	12:05
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	20:23
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	0	0.0	21:04
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	+3	4	0	0	0	0.0	22:27

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jacob Markstrom #25	W	38	35	3	.921	34/34	1/4	59:22

Ottawa Senators

Senators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Drake Batherson #19	R	2	0	2	-1	3	2	1	0	0.0	19:15
Tim Stützle #18	C	1	1	2	-3	1	2	0	0	53.8	23:40
Dylan Cozens #24	C	0	2	2	-1	1	0	0	0	52.6	20:06
Brady Tkachuk #7	L	0	2	2	-1	6	3	0	2	33.3	19:19
Jake Sanderson #85	D	0	1	1	-1	4	0	3	0	0.0	28:55
Lars Eller #89	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	50.0	07:13
Nick Cousins #21	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	10:13
Ridly Greig #71	C	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	83.3	16:37
Stephen Halliday #83	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	50.0	05:01
David Perron #57	L	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	08:32
Fabian Zetterlund #20	L	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	0.0	12:37
Claude Giroux #28	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	57.1	20:14
Michael Amadio #22	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	16:15
Artem Zub #2	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	2	0.0	21:02
Jordan Spence #10	D	0	0	0	-3	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:33
Nick Jensen #3	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	16:44
Nikolas Matinpalo #33	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	0.0	13:32
Tyler Kleven #43	D	0	0	0	-2	4	2	0	2	0.0	16:31

Senators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Linus Ullmark #35	L	32	28	4	.875	21/25	6/6	57:41

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.