{"id":553736,"date":"2026-04-16T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:55:27","slug":"short-handed-senators-overpower-maple-leafs-3-1-in-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553736\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-handed Senators overpower Maple Leafs 3-1 in regular-season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, Ontario \u2014 Drake Batherson and Warren Foegel scored power-play goals and the Ottawa Senators \u2014 resting six players for the playoffs \u2014 beat Toronto 3-1 on Wednesday night in the regular-season finale for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Cozens added an empty-net goal and James Reimer stopped 19 shots against his former team. Ottawa finished 44-27-11 to take the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. It will open its first-round series against Carolina on the road.<\/p>\n<p>William Nylander scored for Toronto. Dennis Hildeby made 35 saves after being recalled from the American Hockey League\u2019s Toronto Marlies on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto went 32-36-14, ensuring a bottom-five finish that will allow it to retain its first-round pick in the upcoming draft. The Maple Leafs were 0-6-1 in their last seven.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander cut it to 2-1 midway through the third when he backhanded a bouncing puck from the slot past Reimer.<\/p>\n<p>Batherson opened the scoring early in the first with his 33rd goal of the season. Foegele made it 2-0 late in the second period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, Ontario \u2014 Drake Batherson and Warren Foegel scored power-play goals and the Ottawa Senators \u2014 resting six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,25,66,31,5171,1105],"class_list":{"0":"post-553736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-ottawa-senators","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","15":"tag-torontomapleleafs","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116413551265136607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553736","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=553736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}