Jonas Brodin and Jake Middleton also scored, while goaltender Jesper Wallstedt made 33 saves for Minnesota (43-21-12).<\/p>\n
Linus Ullmark stopped 19 shots for the Senators (39-27-10). Drake Batherson scored the lone goal.<\/p>\n
Jake Sanderson returned to Ottawa’s lineup after missing 13 games with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n
Minnesota raced to a 3-0 lead to start the third period and extended it midway through the period on a great effort by Quinn Hughes.<\/p>\n
Hughes kept the puck in at the line, spun and found Middleton on the opposite side. Middleton fired through traffic for his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Batherson spoiled Wallstedt\u2019s shutout attempt with just over three minutes remaining in the game. Batherson then left the game, but returned after a brief absence.<\/p>\n
Ullmark bailed the Senators out on a couple of odd-man rushes, including a save on Hughes early in the third period.<\/p>\n
Hartman scored his second of the game when Mats Zuccarello found him at the top of the slot to beat Ullmark glove side and take a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Minnesota led 2-0 after the first period. Brodin was the recipient of a fortunate bounce.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He fired a shot and the rebound deflected off the skate of Ottawa defenceman Nikolas Matinpalo and past Ullmark.<\/p>\n
The Wild took advantage of a Jordan Spence turnover at the blueline, which led to Zuccarello dishing a pass to Hartman for his 21st of the season.<\/p>\n
Senators: The Senators gave up far too many odd-man rushes for Ullmark to clean up.<\/p>\n
Wild: Minnesota did a great job keeping the Senators to the outside for much of the game.<\/p>\n
The Wild capitalized on a Senators turnover late in the first that led to Hartman\u2019s first goal of the game.<\/p>\n
Senators: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Wild: Visit the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Brodin and Jake Middleton also scored, while goaltender Jesper Wallstedt made 33 saves for Minnesota (43-21-12). Linus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-541228","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\/116349390274534846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541228","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=541228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}