{"id":548565,"date":"2026-03-20T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:54:12","slug":"tkachuk-scores-winner-with-11-1-seconds-left-to-play-as-senators-edge-islanders-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548565\/","title":{"rendered":"Tkachuk scores winner with 11.1 seconds left to play as Senators edge Islanders 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reimer made 19 saves to earn the win in net for the Senators.<\/p>\n

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Sorokin stopped 23 shots for New York.<\/p>\n

The Islanders got on the board early.<\/p>\n

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

Midway through the first, shorthanded, Pinto took a Tyler Kleven pass at centre and broke in and wristed a shot past Sorokin.<\/p>\n

A scoreless first provided plenty of action.<\/p>\n

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

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

Takeaways <\/p>\n

Senators: Tkachuk set the tone early as his Ottawa teammates followed his lead, playing a physical game from start to finish.<\/p>\n

Islanders: New York\u2019s power play did them no favours going 0-for-4 and giving up Pinto\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

Key Moment<\/p>\n

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

Key Stat<\/p>\n

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

Up next<\/p>\n

Ottawa: Hosts the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.<\/p>\n

New York: Visits the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.\u2028<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2026.<\/p>\n

Lisa Wallace, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reimer made 19 saves to earn the win in net for the Senators. Sorokin stopped 23 shots for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-548565","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\/548565","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=548565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}