Hartman has goals in four straight games, including two in a 5-2 victory against the Vancouver Canucks to help Minnesota clinch a Stanley Cup Playoff berth on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jonas Brodin and Jake Middleton also scored for the Wild (43-21-12), who have won three of their past four games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Drake Batherson scored for the Senators (39-27-10), who have lost four of five (1-3-1) and were unable to pad their lead for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference. Linus Ullmark made 19 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Sanderson played for the first time since March 7 after Ottawa\u2019s top defenseman sustained an upper-body injury on March 7.<\/p>\n
Brodin gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead at 9:45 of the first period when his shot from the top of the left face-off circle rebounded off Ullmark and then deflected off the skate of defenseman Nikolas Matinpalo.<\/p>\n
Hartman made it 2-0 at 15:35, capitalizing on a turnover by Jordan Spence at the offensive blue line that led to a 2-on-0 the other way. Hartman finished a feed from Mats Zuccarello off the rush.<\/p>\n
He then gave the Wild a 3-0 lead at 15:31 of the second period, scoring on a wrist shot after another pass from Zuccarello.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Middleton made it 4-0 at 12:46 of the third period. He skated in from the blue line into the left circle and ripped a wrist shot past Ullmark. It was Middleton\u2019s second goal of the season and first since Jan. 3.<\/p>\n
Batherson ended Wallstedt\u2019s shutout at 16:43. He was struck by Lassi Thomson\u2019s shot from the blue line but managed to put the puck past Wallstedt while falling for the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hartman has goals in four straight games, including two in a 5-2 victory against the Vancouver Canucks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-540892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116348407327069991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540892","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=540892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}