{"id":541703,"date":"2026-04-05T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:02:47","slug":"ryan-hartman-scores-twice-for-minnesota-wild-in-4-1-win-over-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541703\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Hartman scores twice for Minnesota Wild in 4-1 win over Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canadian Press – Apr 4, 2026 \/ 12:55 pm | Story: 607116<\/p>\n

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Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 Ryan Hartman scored twice to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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 odd-man rushes, including a save on Hughes early in the third period.<\/p>\n

Hartman scored his second of the game when Mats Zuccharello 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. <\/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

Takeaways <\/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

Key Moment<\/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

Up next<\/p>\n

Senators: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Wild: Visit the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 4, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press – Apr 4, 2026 \/ 12:55 pm | Story: 607116 Photo: The Canadian Press OTTAWA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-541703","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\/116350822327259454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541703","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=541703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}