Tkachuk scores in OT to give Senators 3-2 win over Jets

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Brady Tkachuk scored 2:11 into overtime and the Ottawa Senators beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Monday night.

Nick Cousins and Jake Sanderson also scored for the Senators, and Tim Stutzle had three assists. Linus Ullmark stopped 23 shots in Ottawa's third win in nine games.

Defensemen Neal Pionk and Logan Stanley scored for the Jets in their fourth loss in five games (1-3-1). Connor Hellebuyck finished with 28 saves.

In the extra period, Stutzle sent the puck across to Tkachuk, who put a one-timer past Hellebuyck for his second goal of the season.

Each team had seven shots on goal in a scoreless first period.

Cousins took a pass across the front of the net from Kurtis MacDermid, then sent a wrist shot that went over Hellebuyck’s right pad at 10:47 of the second to give Ottawa a 1-0 lead.

Pionk scored on a one-timer from the point straight at Ullmark just under five minutes later to tie it. Kyle Connor had an assist on the play, extending his point streak to nine games with four goals and nine assists.

Stanley gave the Jets a 2-1 lead with 1:25 left in the middle period for his sixth, surpassing the total of five goals the big defenseman had in his first five NHL seasons. Gabriel Vilardi had an assist, stretching his point streak to seven games.

Sanderson’s shot with 1:54 remaining in the third went off Winnipeg center Mark Scheifele and into the net to tie it 2-2.

Senators: Host Pittsburgh on Thursday night.

Jets: At St. Louis on Wednesday night.

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Ottawa Senators' Brady Tkachuk (7) celebrates after his winning goal in overtime against Winnipeg Jets' goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, right, with Tim Stulzle (18) during an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) makes a save on Ottawa Senators' Tim Stutzle (18) during the overtime period of their NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Ottawa Senators Jake Sanderson, second from left, celebrates after his tying goal against the Winnipeg Jets with teammates during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Ottawa Senators' Jake Sanderson, left, celebrates after his tying goal against the Winnipeg Jets with Brady Tkachuk (7) and Claude Giroux (28) during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Ottawa Senators' Brady Tkachuk (7) and Dylan Cozens (24) celebrate after a tying goal by teammate Jake Sanderson (not shown) in front of Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, second from right, during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.

The suspects were a father and son, aged 50 and 24, authorities have said. The older man was shot dead while his son was being treated at a hospital on Tuesday.

A news conference by political and law enforcement leaders on Tuesday was the first time officials confirmed their beliefs about the suspects' ideologies. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the remarks were based on evidence obtained, including “the presence of Islamic State flags in the vehicle that has been seized.”

There are 25 people still being treated in hospitals after Sunday’s massacre, 10 of them in critical condition. Three of them are patients in a children's hospital.

Also among them is Ahmed al Ahmed, who was captured on video tackling and disarming one assailant, before pointing the man’s weapon at him and then setting it on the ground.

Those killed ranged in age from 10 to 87 years old. They were attending a Hanukkah event at Australia's most famous beach Sunday when the gunshots rang out.

Albanese and the leaders of some of Australia's states have pledged to tighten the country's already strict gun laws in what would be the most sweeping reforms since a shooter killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996. Mass shootings in Australia have since been rare.

Officials divulged more information as public questions and anger grew on the third day following the attack about how the suspects were able to plan and enact it and whether Australian Jews had been sufficiently protected from rising antisemitism.

Albanese announced plans to further restrict access to guns, in part because it emerged the older suspect had amassed his cache of six weapons legally.

“The suspected murderers, callous in how they allegedly coordinated their attack, appeared to have no regard for the age or ableness of their victims,” said Barrett. “It appears the alleged killers were interested only in a quest for a death tally.”

The suspects traveled to the Philippines last month, said Mal Lanyon, the Police Commissioner for New South Wales state. Their reasons for the trip and where in the Philippines they went would be probed by investigators, Lanyon said.

He also confirmed that a vehicle removed from the scene, registered to the younger suspect, contained improvised explosive devices.

“I also confirm that it contained two homemade ISIS flags,” Lanyon said.

Groups of Muslim separatist militants, including Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines, once expressed support for the Islamic State group and have hosted small numbers of foreign militant combatants from Asia, the Middle East and Europe in the past.

Decades of military offensives, however, have considerably weakened Abu Sayyaf and other such armed groups, and Philippine military and police officials say there has been no recent indication of any foreign militants in the country’s south.

Earlier, Albanese visited al Ahmed in hospital. Albanese said the 42-year-old Syrian-born fruit shop owner had further surgery scheduled on Wednesday for shotgun wounds to his left should and upper body.

“It was a great honor to met Ahmed al Ahmed. He is a true Australian hero,” Albanese told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with him and his parents.

“We are a brave country. Ahmed al Ahmed represents the best of our country. We will not allow this country to be divided. That is what the terrorists seek. We will unite. We will embrace each other, and we’ll get through this,” Albanese added.

The famous blue-shirted lifeguards of Bondi Beach attracted praise as more stories of their actions during the shooting emerged.

One duty lifeguard, identified by the organization’s Instagram account as Rory Davey, performed an ocean rescue during the shooting after people fled, fully clothed, into the sea.

Another lifeguard, Jackson Doolan, posted to his social media a photo taken as he sprinted, barefoot and clutching a first aid kit, from Tamarama beach a mile away towards Bondi as the massacre continued.

“These guys are community members and it’s not about the surf,” Anthony Caroll, one of the stars of a popular reality television show called “Bondi Rescue,” told Sky News on Tuesday. “They heard the gunshots and they left the beach and came right up the back here into the scene of the crime, into harm’s way while those bullets were being shot.”

Graham-McLay reported from Wellington, New Zealand.

Rabbi Yossi Friedman speaks to people gathering at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday's shooting in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)