{"id":547443,"date":"2026-04-08T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547443\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:39:34","slug":"sanderson-scores-twice-for-senators-in-6-2-win-over-lightning-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547443\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanderson scores twice for Senators in 6-2 win over Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Sanderson scored a pair of goals and the Ottawa Senators were closer to a playoff appearance with a 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA, Ontario(AP) \u2014 Jake Sanderson scored a pair of goals and the Ottawa Senators were closer to a playoff appearance with a 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Spence, Fabian Zetterlund, Tim Stutzle and Shane Pinto also scored for Ottawa. Brady Tkachuk had four assists and goaltender Linus Ullmark made 28 saves for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Paul and Corey Perry scored for the Lightning. Jonas Johansson made 26 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Tied 1-1 to start the third, the Senators scored twice in less than two minutes to take a two-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The Senators added a pair of power-play goals to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Pinto scored into an empty net.<\/p>\n<p>With an assist on Ottawa\u2019s opening goal, Stutzle recorded his second-career 80-point season.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nUp next                    <\/p>\n<p>Lightning: Visit the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Senators: Host the Florida Panthers on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Sanderson scored a pair of goals and the Ottawa Senators were closer to a playoff appearance with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547444,"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-547443","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\/116369370205357572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547443","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=547443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}