Yakemchuk, a 20-year-old defenseman, was the No. 7 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
Lars Eller also scored for the Senators (38-24-9), who have won four straight and are 15-3-2 in 20 games since Jan. 25. Linus Ullmark made 32 saves.<\/p>\n
Ottawa moved into the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
Multiple injuries to Ottawa defensemen, including Thomas Chabot (upper body) and Lassi Thomson (undisclosed) in a 2-1 win against the New York Rangers on Monday, meant Yakemchuk and Jorian Donovan, a fifth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft (No. 136), each made his NHL debut against Detroit.<\/p>\n
Dylan Larkin scored in his return from a lower-body injury, and Dominik Shine also scored for the Red Wings (38-25-8), who have lost five of their past seven games (2-4-1). John Gibson made 18 saves.<\/p>\n
Detroit fell one point behind both the Senators and New York Islanders.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings appeared to take a 1-0 lead on Alex DeBrincat\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
Instead, Tkachuk\u2019s power-play goal put the Senators ahead 1-0 at 17:15. As Gibson got into position to stop Tim Stutzle\u2019s shot, Tkachuk tipped it past his blocker. Yakemchuk picked up the secondary assist for the first point of his NHL career.<\/p>\n
Yakemchuk made it 2-0 at 9:28 of the second period with his first NHL goal, skating in from the blue line to beat Gibson with a wrist shot.<\/p>\n
Eller then extended it to 3-0 at 11:05 with his fourth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Shine cut it to 3-1 at 14:50, tipping Simon Edvinsson\u2019s pass between Ullmark\u2019s blocker and body.<\/p>\n
Larkin, playing for the first time since March 6, made it 3-2 with a power-play goal at 4:13 of the third period. Ullmark deflected Alex DeBrincat\u2019s pass across the top of the crease, but the puck went right to Larkin for his 29th goal.<\/p>\n
James van Riemsdyk hit the post with 4:22 to play and the Red Wings on a power play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yakemchuk, a 20-year-old defenseman, was the No. 7 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. Lars Eller also scored…\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-559471","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\/559471","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=559471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559471\/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=559471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}