OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 Brady Tkachuk scored twice and the Ottawa Senators beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-3 on Sunday night to move into the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
Ottawa moved a point ahead of the New York Islanders for the last playoff spot with five games left. The Senators are five points behind Boston for the first wild card.<\/p>\n
kAmr2C@=:?2 =625D E96 t2DE[ EH@ A@:?ED 29625 @7 %2>A2 q2J] %96 wFCC:42?6D >:DD65 2 492?46 E@ 4=:?49 E96 |6EC@A@=:E2? s:G:D:@?]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmq@E9 E62>D H6C6 A=2J:?8 E96 D64@?5 92=7 @7 324<\\E@\\324< 82>6D[ H:E9 ~EE2H2 D4@C:?8 EH:46 \ud83d\ude15 2 bica DA2? \ud83d\ude15 E96 E9:C5 E@ E2<6 2 d\\a =625]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAm$92?6 !:?E@ >256 :E c\\a @? 2 A@H6C A=2J[ 362E:?8 uC656C:< p?56CD6? E@ E96 D9@CE D:56] #:5=J vC6:8 E96? H@? 2 C246 E@ E96 ?6E 2?5[ H9:=6 p?56CD6? >256 E96 :?:E:2= D2G6[ E96 D:56 H2D H:56 @A6? 7@C %<249F< E@ 3FCJ 9:D D64@?5 @7 E96 82>6]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmr2C@=:?2\u2019D %2J=@C w2== HC:DE65 2 D9@E A2DE {:?FD &==>2C< H:E9 aib_ C6>2:?:?8 E@ >2<6 :E d\\b[ 3FE r=2F56 v:C@FI 25565 2? 6>AEJ\\?6EE6C 7@C ~EE2H2]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmsJ=2? r@K6?D 2?5 %:> $EFEK=6 2=D@ D4@C65 7@C ~EE2H2[ 2?5 &==>2C< DE@AA65 ad D9@ED] s676?D6>2? y2<6 $2?56CD@? A=2J65 9:D b__E9 }w{ 82>6] w6 925 2? 2DD:DE]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAm{@82? $E2?<@G6? 2?5 p?5C6: $G649?:<@G 2=D@ D4@C65 7@C r2C@=:?2[ 2?5 p?56CD6? >256 ad D2G6D]k^Am<\/p>\n
k9am&A ?6IEk^9am<\/p>\n
kAmwFCC:42?6Di w@DE q@DE@? @? %F6D52J ?:89E]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAm$6?2E@CDi w@DE %2>A2 q2J @? %F6D52J ?:89E]k^Am<\/p>\n
k9C ^m<\/p>\n
kAmp! }w{i k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@>^9F3^?9=Qm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@>^9F3^?9=k^2mk^Am<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 Brady Tkachuk scored twice and the Ottawa Senators beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-3 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-543161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116355630801951483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543161","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=543161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}