{"id":543228,"date":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543228\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","slug":"tkachuk-scores-2-senators-defeat-hurricanes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543228\/","title":{"rendered":"Tkachuk scores 2, Senators defeat Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Stutzle, Shane Pinto and Dylan Cozens each had a goal and an assist for the Senators (40-27-10), who have won two of three. Linus Ullmark made 25 saves in the second of back-to-back starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Senators hold the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference, one point ahead of the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Svechnikov, Logan Stankoven, and Taylor Hall scored for the Hurricanes (49-22-6), who had won three straight and remain in first place in the Metropolitan Division and Eastern Conference. Frederik Andersen made 26 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stankoven gave the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead on the power play at 5:22 of the first period. Nikolaj Ehlers attempted a backhand-forehand move down low, but lost control of the puck, which slid into the slot to Stankoven, who buried it past Ullmark.<\/p>\n<p>Cozens tied it 1-1 for the Senators on the power play at 7:17. Drake Batherson sent the puck into the slot to Stutzle, whose rebound went to Cozens for a backhand past Andersen.<\/p>\n<p>Stutzle gave Ottawa a 2-1 lead at 8:51 with a highlight-reel goal. He intercepted a pass at the blue line in the defensive zone and broke in alone before deking to the backhand, forehand, and backhand to beat Andersen.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes tied the game 2-2 at 19:40. After two failed clearing attempts with Ottawa\u2019s fourth line hemmed in their own zone, Svechnikov put a shot on net that created a loose puck in front. Warren Foegele attempted to push it to Ullmark\u2019s glove for a cover, but Svechnikov reached it first and slid it past him.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk regained the lead for the Senators, tipping an Artem Zub blast from the blue line to make it 3-2 at 8:33 of the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Zetterlund fed Shane Pinto on the power play to put the Senators up 4-2 at 2:50 of the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk made it 5-2 at 6:32. Ridly Grieg drove the net and put a backhand shot on net, with the rebound buried by Tkachuk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hall got one back for the Hurricanes at 17:29 of the third period to make it 5-3. He picked up a rebound off a Sean Walker shot in the high slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Claude Giroux added an empty-net goal for the 6-3 final at 19:01.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Staal (undisclosed) and Jordan Martinook (undisclosed) were late scratches for Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Stutzle, Shane Pinto and Dylan Cozens each had a goal and an assist for the Senators (40-27-10),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542933,"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-543228","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\/116355832152783685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543228","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=543228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}