OTTAWA, Ontario — Fabian Zetterlund scored with less that two-and-a-half minutes remaining to give the Ottawa Senators a 4-3 win over the Washington Capitals on Thursday.Zetterlund’s 10th goal of the season came less than two minutes after Washington’s Aliaksei Protas tied the game at 3-all.David Perron, Ridly Greig and Nick Jensen also scored for Ottawa. Leevi Merilainen made 26 saves and helped Ottawa snap a three-game skid.The Capitals (21-15-5), playing the second game of a back-to-back, had jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals from Tom Wilson and Dylan Strome. Logan Thompson made 28 saves.After Merilainen stopped a flurry of shots from in close Wilson jumped on a loose puck for his team-leading 22nd of the season, giving the Capitals a 1-0 lead.Strome made it 2-0, taking a Ryan Leonard pass and wristing a long shot through traffic to beat a screened Merilainen.Jensen cut the lead in half by scoring on a rebound of a shot by Jake Sanderson at 7:42 of the second.Batherson had a wide-open net late in the second period, but his shot hit the post. Greig tied it with 28.8 seconds left in the period when he deflected a shot that Thompson inadvertently pushed across the goal line.Popular ReadsOttawa (19-15-5) took its first lead 2:47 into the third on a goal from Perron.Jake Sanderson recorded his 20th assist of the season and became the first defenseman in Senators’ history to reach the mark in each of his first four seasons.Senators: Host the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.Capitals: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.___AP NHL: https://apne …
