{"id":346226,"date":"2025-12-13T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346226\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:21:07","slug":"eriksson-ek-scores-late-wild-recover-against-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346226\/","title":{"rendered":"Eriksson Ek scores late, Wild recover against Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Johansson<\/a> sent a cross-ice feed to Eriksson Ek outside the right circle who sent a one-timer past Leevi Merilainen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ottawa used a coach’s challenge for high-sticking on Matt Boldy<\/a> on the play, but video review determined that no high stick occurred and the call on the ice was upheld.<\/p>\n

Johansson had two assists, and Tyler Pitlick<\/a> and Ryan Hartman<\/a> scored for the Wild (18-9-5), who have won three straight and are 9-0-2 in their past 11 home games. Jesper Wallstedt<\/a> made 33 saves.<\/p>\n

Tim Stutzle<\/a> and Dylan Cozens<\/a> each had a goal and an assist for the Senators (14-13-4) who have lost four of their past five. Merilainen made 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Pitlick made it 1-0 at 3:54 of the first period, tipping in a Jared Spurgeon<\/a> shot. It was Pitlick’s first goal of the season and his first since November 25, 2023, when he was with the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n

Hartman increased the lead 2-0 with a power-play goal at 16:02, redirecting a pass from Johansson at the backdoor.<\/p>\n

Stutzle cut the deficit 2-1 at 19:37 during a power play, poking the loose puck five-hole on Wallstedt.<\/p>\n

Cozens tied it 2-2 at 5:45 on the power play with a wrist shot through traffic.<\/p>\n

It was the first game for the Wild since acquiring defenseman Quinn Hughes<\/a> from the Vancouver Canucks on Friday for forwards Marco Rossi<\/a> and Liam Ohgren<\/a>, defenseman Zeev Buium<\/a> and a first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. Hughes is expected to make his Wild debut against the Boston Bruins on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Johansson sent a cross-ice feed to Eriksson Ek outside the right circle who sent a one-timer past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}