The NHL doesn’t get much wilder than the 15-goal game between Kings, Senators

The 2024-25 NHL season is just a couple of weeks old, and already we have a candidate for wildest game of the season. Monday’s afternoon matchup between the Los Angeles Kings and Ottawa Senators, turned into a complete goal fest, with the Sens pulling out the 8-7 victory in overtime.

Senators forward Josh Norris scored his second of the game, just 56 seconds into the extra frame. In total, there were 15 goals, from 11 different players, including two from Norris, two from Senators forward Zack MacEwen, and two from Kings’ forwards Kevin Fiala and Alex Laferriere. The Kings sit at 1-0-2 after Monday’s contest, meanwhile the Senators are now 2-1-0, through their first three games of the season.

On Tuesday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Tyler Yaremchuk and Frank Seravalli dug into the wild game in Ottawa and what exactly transpired.

Yaremchuk: 15 goals in this hockey game is crazy, also, Darcy Kuemper was left in for all eight of them, is also insane, but no team was either up by two goals at any point. So, it didn’t make sense to pull him. This was a weird one.

Seravalli: And, also in the afternoon on a Thanksgiving Monday. I mean, this was tremendous. I loved that the Sens were able to get it done. The Kings had struggled to score in their first few games of the year, they get seven by, and by the way, they’re undefeated in regulation, so far on this seemingly odyssey season-opening road trip, pretty far from home.

So, the only thing that I can think of, and I know this is wrong, the only thing that could think of was, the Jets beating the Flyers 9-8, also in October. So, I’m covering the Flyers, this is 2011, and this was the Ilya Bryzgalov lost in the woods without an IPhone compass day. And, that’s the first thing that I thought of was the Bryzgalov, kind of the beginning of his tenure in Philly, and him saying – guys I was lost.

That’s kind of, maybe what it felt like for both of these teams, in that moment. Just not a typical hockey game. Also, highly entertaining. We know it’s not going to be like that. Look at how many 8-4, 6-4, 6-5 games we’ve seen so far to open up the season. Coach’s always find a way to clamp down, but it just seems like October is when stuff like that usually runs together.

For more on the wild game from Ottawa, and the very latest from around the NHL, watch the full episode here.