{"id":458141,"date":"2026-02-14T19:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/458141\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:38:35","slug":"senators-olympic-tracker-stutzle-leads-tourney-in-goals-matinpalo-scores-for-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/458141\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Olympic tracker: Stutzle leads tourney in goals, Matinpalo scores for Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All six Ottawa Senators are in action on Saturday, the fourth day of men\u2019s hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here\u2019s everything you need to know about how each of them fared.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Stutzle (Germany)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stutzle scored his third goal of the tournament in a 4-3 loss to Latvia on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With the German net empty and chaos ensuing around the Latvian crease, Stutzle took a feed from Leon Draisaitl and shot the puck off of multiple bodies in front and in to cut it to 4-3 with 2:19 remaining in the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Germany had a myriad of opportunities to tie the game in the subsequent two minutes of 6-on-5, including hitting a post and getting multiple huge saves from Latvian netminder Arturs Silovs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stutzle finished with one goal, five shots and a plus-1 rating in 26:14 of ice time in the upset defeat. He is tied with Slovakia\u2019s Juraj Slafkovsky for the tournament lead in goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With a record of 1-0-0-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L) Team Germany is in third place in Group C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here\u2019s when you can catch Stutzle next:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">USA vs. Germany \u2014 Sunday, Feb. 15 at 3:10 p.m. (TSN, CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Nikolas Matinpalo (Finland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What a moment for Matinpalo in his first ever Olympic game on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Seven minutes into the first period against Sweden, the 27-year-old got the puck at the top of the left faceoff circle, opened up his hips and sent a laser of a wrist shot off the left post and in past Filip Gustavsson to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matinpalo, who was scratched for Finland\u2019s tournament-opening 4-1 loss to Slovakia on Wednesday, wore a subtle smile as he broke out of the post-goal group hug and headed to high-five the rest of his team on the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Friday was Matinpalo\u2019s first game action since Jan. 24, and only his third game of 2026. He has been a frequent healthy scratch with the Senators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, the Finns dominated host Italy 11-0 and clinched second place in Group B. Matinpalo had two shots and a plus-1 rating in 8:09 of ice time in the drubbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s difficult to say whether he\u2019ll dress during the medal round. Right now, it\u2019s between Matinpalo, Henri Jokiharju and Mikko Lehtonen for the final two spots in the D corps. Jokiharju had an assist in 8:54 of ice time on Saturday; Lehtonen was a healthy scratch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here\u2019s when you can catch Matinpalo next:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Team Finland (2-0-0-1) will likely finish as the top second-place team and get a bye into the quarterfinals on Wednesday, Feb. 18. If that happens, they could play at 6:10 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 12:10 p.m. or 3:10 p.m. (CBC).<\/p>\n<p>Brady Tkachuk, Jake Sanderson (USA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tkachuk and Sanderson will each play his second game of the tournament on Saturday at 3:10 p.m. when the United States takes on Denmark (TSN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tkachuk had a goal and three shots in 15:33 of ice time in Team USA\u2019s 5-1 win against Latvia on Thursday; Sanderson has two shots in 16:18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Team USA (1-0-0-0) is first place in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Lars Eller, Mads Sogaard (Denmark)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eller will play his second game of the tournament on Saturday at 3:10 p.m. when Denmark takes on the United States (TSN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mads Sogaard could get the call in net against Team USA, after coach Mikael Gath said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/frederik-andersen-won-t-start-in-goal-for-denmark-against-united-states-olympic-hockey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he would not start Frederik Andersen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he would not start Frederik Andersen<\/a> for a second straight game, likely opting to save his No. 1 goalie for a more winnable game against Latvia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eller had four shots and one minor penalty for tripping Stutzle in a 3-1 loss to Germany on Thursday; Sogaard dressed as the backup goalie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Team Denmark (0-0-0-1) is in last place in Group C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All six Ottawa Senators are in action on Saturday, the fourth day of men\u2019s hockey at the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[3189,8659,536,535,4151,1239,6544,1754,5,1338,976,4810,370,1086,26207,4,4796,72,25,5157,73,15233,9846,681,55613,2313],"class_list":{"0":"post-458141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-arturs-silovs","10":"tag-brady-tkachuk","11":"tag-filip-gustavsson","12":"tag-finland","13":"tag-frederik-andersen","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-henri-jokiharju","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-jake-sanderson","18":"tag-juraj-slafkovsky","19":"tag-lars-eller","20":"tag-leon-draisaitl","21":"tag-mads-sogaard","22":"tag-mikko-lehtonen","23":"tag-nhl","24":"tag-nikolas-matinpalo","25":"tag-ottawa","26":"tag-ottawa-senators","27":"tag-ottawasenators","28":"tag-senators","29":"tag-team-finland","30":"tag-team-germany","31":"tag-tim-stutzle","32":"tag-usa-vs-germany","33":"tag-zemgus-girgensons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116070678822751732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}