It seemed impossible, as Team Black held a healthy lead for the majority of the days' competition, but Team White made a miracle comeback to win this year's Sens Skills 16-14 in overtime.

The Senators held their annual Sens Skills competition at the Canadian Tire Centre

The day kicked off with the PUCK CONTROL RELAY.

Up first were the Senators' minor hockey participants. It was Gracie Vaive and Dax Bennett on Team White against Audrey Hafez and Jacob Vaive on Team Black. Winning the first point of the day was Team Black!

1-0 TEAM BLACK

Up next were the big guys. Tim Stützle, Travis Hamonic, Emily Clarke, Danielle Serdachny, and Jacob Bernard-Docker from Team White went up against Artem Zub, Ridly Greig, Gabbie Hughes, Brianne Jenner and Matthew Highmore from Team Black.

Team White time: 1:45.485

Team Black time: 1:49.094

1-1 ALL TIED UP

Next, it was time for the FASTEST SKATER event.

Team Black:

  • Ridly Greig: 13.491
  • Noah Gregor: 13.285
  • Nikolas Matinpalo: 13.726
  • Matthew Highmore: 13.923

Team White:

  • Emily Clark: 13.941
  • Jacob Bernard-Docker: 14.188
  • Tyler Kleven: 13.991
  • Michael Amadio: 13.787

And with that, Noah Gregor set a franchise record with 13.491! After that contest, Team Black took a HUGE lead.

7-2 TEAM BLACK

Following up was the HARDEST SHOT event.

Team Black:

  • Drake Batherson
    • 102.6
    • 104.3
  • Nikolas Matinpalo
    • 99.4
    • 79.9
  • Claude Giroux
    • 96.6
    • 94.7
  • Thomas Chabot
    • 99.9
    • 99.7

Team White:

  • Tyler Kleven
    • 101.4
    • 78.6
  • Travis Hamonic
    • 100.1
    • 96.1
  • Michael Amadio
    • 60.7 and a broken stick
    • 86.4
  • Jacob Bernard-Docker
    • 60.4
    • 75.4

After the first round, it was time for the championship round. For Team Black it was Drake Batherson and for Team White it was Tyler Kleven.

  • Drake Batherson
    • 99.2
    • 72.9
  • Tyler Kleven
    • 101.5
    • 99.2

After all was said and done, Drake Batherson had the hardest shot overall with 104.4.

10-4 TEAM BLACK

Next, the ACCURACY SHOOTING event.

Team Black:

  • Brianne Jenner: 9.429
  • Claude Giroux: 12.739
  • Adam Gaudette: 16.247
  • Drake Batherson: 9.459

Team White:

  • Danielle Serdachny: 27.069
  • Tim Stützle: 7.487
  • Michael Amadio: 7.912
  • David Perron: 10.461

11-5 TEAM BLACK

The next event was the SKILLS CHALLENGE.

Up first was the goalie shot, with Linus Ullmark shooting for Team Black. Stick handling and one-timer passing was Gabbie Hughes, while one-timer shooting were Noah Gregor and Thomas Chabot. On agility was Nikolas Matinpalo, and saucer passing was Adam Gaudette.

With the goalie shot for Team White was Anton Forsberg. Stick handling and one-timer passing was Michael Amadio, while one-timer shooting were Tim Stützle and Tyler Kleven. On agility was Jacob Bernard-Docker, and saucer passing was David Perron.

Team Black time: 1:03.273

Team White time: 44.238

11-6 TEAM BLACK

The final event before the 3-on-3 match was the SHOOTOUT!

Team Black:

  • Brianne Jenner: SAVED
  • Gabbie Hughes: SAVED
  • Audrey Hafez: SAVED
  • Jacob Vaive: SAVED
  • Drake Batherson: GOAL
  • Claude Giroux: SAVED
  • Ridly Greig: SAVED
  • Artem Zub: SAVED
  • Adam Gaudette: SAVED
  • Matthew Highmore: SAVED
  • Nikolas Matinpalo: SAVED
  • Noah Gregor: SAVED
  • Thomas Chabot: SAVED

Team White:

  • Emily Clark: SAVED
  • Danielle Serdachny: SAVED
  • Gracie Vaive: SAVED
  • Dax Bennett: SAVED
  • Tim Stützle: GOAL
  • David Perron: SAVED
  • Michael Amadio: SAVED
  • Tyler Kleven: SAVED
  • Jacob Bernard-Docker: SAVED
  • Travis Hamonic: SAVED
  • Gracie Vaive: GOAL
  • Dax Bennett: SAVED
  • Tim Stützle: SAVED

After the shootout event, things were close!

12-8 TEAM BLACK

For the final event, it was the five-minute 3-on-3 game.

Tim Stûtzle opened the scoring for Team White. With each goal being worth two points, that made it 12-10 Black.

Back at it was Tim Stützle with his second, on a breakaway, tying things for Team White 12-12.

Jacob Bernard-Docker scored for Team White to make it 14-12 but Thomas Chabot tied it back up just seconds later to keep his team alive at 14-14.

Things headed to overtime, which meant NEXT GOAL WINS!!!

And Tim Stützle completed the hat trick to win it for Team White 16-14!

TEAM WHITE MADE THE COMEBACK TO WIN IT 16-14!!!

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