{"id":559739,"date":"2026-03-25T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559739\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:55:09","slug":"ottawa-senators-climb-into-playoff-spot-with-win-over-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559739\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators climb into playoff spot with win over Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carter Yakemchuk scored a second-period goal and also had an assist in his NHL debut as the streaking Ottawa Senators edged the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Yakemchuk, the seventh overall pick of the 2024 draft, had been playing for the American Hockey League’s Belleville Senators. <\/p>\n

He was called up earlier in the day alongside fellow rookie from Belleville Jorian Donovan because defencemen Thomas Chabot, Dennis Gilbert, Nick Jensen, Jake Sanderson and Lassi Thomson are all sidelined by injuries.<\/p>\n

Brady Tkachuk scored his 20th goal of the season for the Senators, who have won four straight and nine of their last 11 games. Lars Eller scored the other goal for the Senators. <\/p>\n

Linus Ullmark made 32 saves as the Senators continued their late push for an Eastern Conference playoff berth. With the win, they passed Detroit and the New York Islanders in the standings to temporarily hold the final playoff spot in the East.<\/p>\n

\"AOttawa Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark celebrates the win. (Paul Sancya\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin scored on a third-period power play in his first game since missing seven games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

Dominik Shine had the other Red Wings goal while John Gibson stopped 18 shots. Detroit had won its three previous meetings with Ottawa this season.<\/p>\n

Alex DeBrincat seemingly gave the Red Wings the lead late in the first period. His power-play goal was challenged by Ottawa and the officials ruled that Detroit was offside.<\/p>\n

The Senators converted on a power play with 2:45 remaining in the period when Tkachuk tipped in Tim St\u00fctzle’s shot after a between-the-legs pass from Yakemchuk.<\/p>\n

That rookie scored himself at 9:28 of the second period. He skated in from the point to the right circle and beat Gibson on the glove side.<\/p>\n

Eller made it 3-0 less than two minutes later. <\/p>\n

Ottawa is back home Thursday against Pittsburgh, another team on the crowded conference playoff bubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-559739","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\/559739","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=559739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}