{"id":546835,"date":"2026-04-08T05:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546835\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:40:17","slug":"senators-score-5-in-3rd-pull-away-from-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546835\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators score 5 in 3rd, pull away from Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perry cut the deficit to 3-2 at 10:35, redirecting a pass from Ryan McDonagh<\/a> over Ullmark’s blocker from the left of the crease.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we had a decent start,\u201d Perry said. \u201cWe’re playing our game, we’re moving, we’re skating, and then we kind of gave up some odd-man rushes and started trying to do too much, and they took advantage of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stutzle pounced on a puck that came loose during a goal-mouth scramble and scored a power-play goal from in front at 12:51 to push the lead to 4-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what team they have, we just try and play our game every night and I think we can stack up against anyone,\u201d Stutzle said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay challenged for goaltender interference, but Stutzle\u2019s goal was upheld after video review.<\/p>\n

\u201cBottom line is, we’re down by two. There’s not a ton of time left in the game, and we weren’t getting a ton of opportunities at the time, so I thought they dislodged it,” Cooper said. “They didn’t. But in the end, you can’t give them a breakaway goal what was it six, seven seconds into the power play? So I didn’t think that really had an impact on the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the ensuing power play, Sanderson extended it to 5-2 just 13 seconds later at 13:04. He took a pass from Tkachuk and finished a forehand-backhand deke from in tight for his second goal of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeams do it across the League,\u201d Sanderson said. \u201cSo just try to catch them off guard and it worked, so it\u2019s kind of nice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shane Pinto<\/a> scored a short-handed, empty-net goal at 16:41 to secure the 6-2 final.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk a lot about confidence,\u201d Green said. \u201cWanting to be in these moments. Our goal isn\u2019t just to make the playoffs, we wanna win the Stanley Cup.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

NOTES: Tkachuk became the fourth different Senators player in the past decade with multiple four-point games in a single season. The others: Stutzle (twice; most: three games in 2022-23), Batherson (three games in 2021-22) and Erik Karlsson<\/a> (two games in 2015-16). … Spence set a new career high for points in a season with 29 (seven goals, 22 assists), besting his previous high of 28 he set during the 2024-25 season. … Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov<\/a> extended his point streak to four games (three goals, three assists).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perry cut the deficit to 3-2 at 10:35, redirecting a pass from Ryan McDonagh over Ullmark’s blocker from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-546835","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\/116367486057283537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546835","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=546835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}