{"id":548378,"date":"2026-03-20T05:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548378\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:53:14","slug":"tkachuk-scores-late-game-winner-as-senators-edge-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548378\/","title":{"rendered":"Tkachuk scores late game-winner as Senators edge Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brady Tkachuk put away the winner with 13 seconds left to play to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"ottawa-senators\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> past the New York Islanders 3-2 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk grabbed a loose puck in the crease and squeezed it past Ilya Sorokin as Ottawa rallied from a 1-0 and then a 2-1 deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Pinto had a short-handed goal to tie the game 1-1 for the Senators (35-24-9) in the second period and then Warren Foegele backhanded the puck past Sorokin 5:12 into the third period to tie it 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie sensation Matthew Schaefer opened the scoring for the Islanders (39-25-5) early in the second period and Brayden Schenn beat Ottawa goalie James Reimer five-hole to tie it 1-1 2:02 into the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Reimer made 19 saves to earn the win in net for the Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Sorokin stopped 23 shots for New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders got on the board early.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Horvat won the faceoff and Ryan Pulock passed it across to Schaefer who stepped into the circle and wired a shot past Reimer for his 50th point of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through the first, shorthanded, Pinto took a Tyler Kleven pass at centre and broke in and wristed a shot past Sorokin.<\/p>\n<p>A scoreless first provided plenty of action.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk and Anders Lee dropped the gloves on the opening faceoff in a fight between captains. Five minutes later, Ottawa\u2019s Ridly Greig and Schenn also exchanged punches.<\/p>\n<p>Reimer made a left pad save on what looked like a sure-goal for Casey Cizikas, while Sorokin made a great save on Tkachuk. The best save of the period wasn\u2019t actually made by a goaltender.<\/p>\n<p>Senators: Tkachuk set the tone early as his Ottawa teammates followed his lead, playing a physical game from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Islanders: New York\u2019s power play did them no favours going 0-for-x and giving up a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Islanders defenceman Carson Soucy made a huge stop on Artem Zub late in the first to save a surefire goal with Sorokin out of position.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schaefer became the second 18-year-old defenceman in NHL history to record 50 points in a season, following Phil Housley (57 in 1982-83).<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa: Hosts the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>New York: Visits the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brady Tkachuk put away the winner with 13 seconds left to play to lead the Ottawa Senators past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-548378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}