{"id":547301,"date":"2026-04-08T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547301\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:02:24","slug":"senators-6-2-lightning-apr-7-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547301\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators 6-2 Lightning (Apr 7, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA, Ontario — \u2014 Jake Sanderson<\/a> scored a pair of goals and the Ottawa Senators<\/a> were closer to a playoff appearance with a 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Jordan Spence<\/a>, Fabian Zetterlund<\/a>, Tim Stutzle<\/a> and Shane Pinto<\/a> also scored for Ottawa. Brady Tkachuk<\/a> had four assists and goaltender Linus Ullmark<\/a> made 28 saves for the win.<\/p>\n

Nick Paul<\/a> and Corey Perry<\/a> scored for the Lightning. Jonas Johansson<\/a> made 26 saves.<\/p>\n

Tied 1-1 to start the third, the Senators scored twice in less than two minutes to take a two-goal lead.<\/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

Pinto scored into an empty net.<\/p>\n

With an assist on Ottawa\u2019s opening goal, Stutzle recorded his second-career 80-point season.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Lightning: Visit the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Senators: Host the Florida Panthers<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, Ontario — \u2014 Jake Sanderson scored a pair of goals and the Ottawa Senators were closer to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-547301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-lightning","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368988431697601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547301","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=547301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}