OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Shane Pinto scored his NHL-leading sixth goal and added the shootout winner in the Ottawa Senators' 4-3 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night.
Ottawa rallied to end a three-game losing streak, tying it on Dylan Cozens' goal with 1:46 remaining in regulation. David Perron had a power-play goal, and Linus Ullmark stopped 30 shots.
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Ottawa Senators center Tim Stutzle (18) shoots the puck wide of the net past Seattle Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer (31) during first-period NHL hockey game action in Ottawa, Ontario, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators left wing David Perron (57) fires the puck past Seattle Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer (31) during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators centre Shane Pinto (12)celebrates his game winning goal in a shootout with teammates centre Tim Stutzle (18), defenceman Jordan Spence (10) and defenceman Thomas Chabot (72) in NHL action against the Seattle Kraken in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators center Shane Pinto (12) celebrates his goal with defenseman Jordan Spence (10) during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
Vegas' Pavel Dorofeyev tied Pinto for the NHL lead later Thursday with a goal in the Golden Knights' 6-5 home victory over Boston.
Chandler Stephenson scored twice for Seattle, giving the Kraken a 3-2 lead with a power-play goal early in the third. Shane Wright also scored for the Kraken, and Philipp Grubauer made 21 saves.
The Senators announced Thursday that captain Brady Tkachuk underwent surgery on his right thumb and is expected to be out 6-8 weeks. Ottawa also is dealing with the loss of defenseman Donovan Sebrango, who was picked up off waivers by the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.
Ottawa has allowed an NHL-high nine power-play goals.
Kraken: At Toronto on Saturday night.
Senators: Host the New York Islanders on Saturday.
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Ottawa Senators center Tim Stutzle (18) shoots the puck wide of the net past Seattle Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer (31) during first-period NHL hockey game action in Ottawa, Ontario, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators left wing David Perron (57) fires the puck past Seattle Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer (31) during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators centre Shane Pinto (12)celebrates his game winning goal in a shootout with teammates centre Tim Stutzle (18), defenceman Jordan Spence (10) and defenceman Thomas Chabot (72) in NHL action against the Seattle Kraken in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators center Shane Pinto (12) celebrates his goal with defenseman Jordan Spence (10) during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to meet Thursday at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elections rejected by then-President Nicolás Maduro before the United States captured him in an audacious military raid this month.
Less than two weeks after U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges, Trump will host the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Machado, having already dismissed her credibility to run Venezuela and raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in the country.
“She’s a very nice woman,” Trump told Reuters in an interview about Machado. “I’ve seen her on television. I think we’re just going to talk basics.”
The meeting comes as Trump and his top advisers have signaled their willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president and along with others in the deposed leader's inner circle remain in charge of day-to-day governmental operations.
Rodríguez herself has adopted a less strident position toward Trump and his “America First” policies toward the Western Hemisphere, saying she plans to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro — a move reportedly made at the behest of the Trump administration. Venezuela released several Americans this week.
Trump, a Republican, said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.
“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump told reporters. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”
In endorsing Rodríguez, Trump has sidelined Machado, who has long been a face of resistance in Venezuela. She had sought to cultivate relationships with Trump and key advisers like Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the American right wing in a political gamble to ally herself with the U.S. government. She also intends to have a meeting in the Senate on Thursday afternoon.
Despite her alliance with Republicans, Trump was quick to snub her following Maduro’s capture. Just hours afterward, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country. She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.”
Machado has steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump coveted. She has since thanked Trump and offered to share the prize with him, a move that has been rejected by the Nobel Institute.
Machado’s whereabouts have been largely unknown since she went into hiding early last year after being briefly detained in Caracas. She briefly reappeared in Oslo, Norway, in December after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.
A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush. A photo showing her shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office lives in the collective memory. Chávez considered Bush an adversary.
Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown by state security forces.
Janetsky reported from Mexico City. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
FILE - U.S. President George Bush, right, meets with Maria Corina Machado, executive director of Sumate, a non-governmental organization that defends Venezuelan citizens' political rights, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)
