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<\/p>\nZetterlund came across centre, took a pass at the blueline and let a shot go that went off Erik Cernak to beat Johansson five-hole.<\/p>\n
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Just over one minute later, Sanderson drove to the net and held off J.J Moser to slide the puck in short side for his 12th of the season and a career-high in points.<\/p>\n
Perry pulled the Lightning within one midway through the third when he was left all alone and raised a shot over a sprawled Ullmark.<\/p>\n
The Senators added a pair of power-play goals to secure the victory.<\/p>\n
St\u00fctzle jumped on a loose puck at 12:51 to make it 4-2. Tampa lost a goaltender interference challenge and Sanderson scored his second of the game on the ensuing power play.<\/p>\n
Pinto scored into an empty net.<\/p>\n
Ottawa opened the scoring at 15:46 of the second period when Tkachuk and Spence played give and go on an odd-man rush. Spence finished it with a wrist shot high glove side. <\/p>\n
The Lightning tied it less than three minutes later when Perry\u2019s pass went off Tkachuk\u2019s skate to Paul in the slot. Paul quickly backhanded the puck past Ullmark.<\/p>\n
Ottawa had a brief scare in the second period when Sanderson took a shot off his left foot and left the game, but he was able to return.<\/p>\n
Thomas Chabot skated with the Senators in a non-contact jersey for the first time since his right arm injury sustained March 23.<\/p>\n
Takeaways <\/p>\n
Senators: Ottawa\u2019s net front presence had a definite impact.<\/p>\n
Lightning: The Lightning struggled to generate shots from the inside early in the game.<\/p>\n
Key Stat<\/p>\n
With an assist on Ottawa\u2019s opening goal, St\u00fctzle recorded his second-career 80-point season.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Senators: Host the Florida Panthers on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Lightning: Visit the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 7, 2026.<\/p>\n
Lisa Wallace, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zetterlund came across centre, took a pass at the blueline and let a shot go that went off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-546694","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\/116367082229560861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546694","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=546694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}