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Lars Eller<\/a> also scored for the Senators (38-24-9), who have won four straight, including a 2-1 victory at the New York Rangers on Monday, and are 15-3-2 in 20 games since Jan. 25. Linus Ullmark<\/a>\u00a0made 32 saves.<\/p>\n

Ottawa moved into the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a gutty, gutty game,\u201d Senators coach Travis Green said. \u201cWe came in after playing last night to face a rested team and found a way to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Multiple injuries to Ottawa defensemen, including Thomas Chabot<\/a> (upper body) and Lassi Thomson<\/a>\u00a0(undisclosed) on Monday, meant Yakemchuk and Jorian Donovan<\/a>, a fifth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft (No. 136), each made his NHL debut against Detroit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of both of them,\u201d Green said. \u201cWe got a big game from (Yakemchuk). He\u2019s a special player, and I thought (Donovan) did what we needed him to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylan Larkin<\/a> scored in his return from a lower-body injury, and Dominik Shine<\/a> also scored for the Red Wings (38-25-8), who have lost five of their past seven games (2-4-1). John Gibson<\/a>\u00a0made 18 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good to be back out there with the guys,\u201d said Larkin, who played for the first time since March 6 after missing seven games. \u201cBut the room is mad, because this was a big game. We have 11 games left and we have to be better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detroit is one point behind both the Senators and New York Islanders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were a little bit sluggish for whatever reason,\u201d Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said. \u201cWe put pucks in the areas we wanted them, but then we weren\u2019t winning the battles to give ourselves a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Red Wings appeared to take a 1-0 lead on Alex DeBrincat<\/a>\u2019s power-play goal at 15:35 of the first period, but the play was overturned after the Senators successfully challenged for offside.<\/p>\n

Tkachuk\u2019s power-play goal then put the Senators ahead 1-0 at 17:15. As Gibson got into position to stop Tim Stutzle<\/a>\u2019s shot, Tkachuk tipped it past his blocker. Yakemchuk picked up the secondary assist for the first point of his NHL career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t a normal first NHL game; it is more like a first game in the playoffs,\u201d Tkachuk said. \u201cYakemchuk and (Donovan) were both amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lars Eller also scored for the Senators (38-24-9), who have won four straight, including a 2-1 victory at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-558910","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\/558910","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=558910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}