{"id":582529,"date":"2026-04-04T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:46:08","slug":"ryan-hartman-scores-twice-to-lift-minnesota-wild-over-ottawa-senators-in-jake-sandersons-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582529\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Hartman scores twice to lift Minnesota Wild over Ottawa Senators in Jake Sanderson\u2019s return"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2014 Ryan Hartman<\/a> scored twice to lead the Minnesota Wild<\/a> to a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators<\/a> on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Jonas Brodin<\/a> and Jake Middleton<\/a> also scored, while goaltender Jesper Wallstedt<\/a> made 33 saves for Minnesota (43-21-12).<\/p>\n

Linus Ullmark<\/a> stopped 19 shots for the Senators (39-27-10). Drake Batherson<\/a> scored the lone goal.<\/p>\n

Jake Sanderson<\/a> returned to Ottawa\u2019s lineup after missing 13 games with an upper body injury.<\/p>\n

Minnesota raced to a 3-0 lead to start the third period and extended it midway through the period on a great effort by Quinn Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hughes kept the puck in at the line, spun and found Middleton on the opposite side. Middleton fired through traffic for his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Batherson spoiled Wallstedt\u2019s shutout attempt with just over three minutes remaining in the game. Batherson then left the game, but returned after a brief absence.<\/p>\n

Ullmark bailed the Senators out on a couple odd-man rushes, including a save on Hughes early in the third period.<\/p>\n

Hartman scored his second of the game when Mats Zuccharello found him at the top of the slot to beat Ullmark glove side and take a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Minnesota led 2-0 after the first period. Brodin was the recipient of a fortunate bounce. <\/p>\n

He fired a shot and the rebound deflected off the skate of Ottawa defenceman Nikolas Matinpalo<\/a> and past Ullmark.<\/p>\n

The Wild took advantage of a Jordan Spence<\/a> turnover at the blueline, which led to Zuccarello dishing a pass to Hartman for his 21st of the season.<\/p>\n

Takeaways <\/p>\n

Senators: The Senators gave up far too many odd-man rushes for Ullmark to clean up.<\/p>\n

Wild: Minnesota did a great job keeping the Senators to the outside for much of the game.<\/p>\n

Key Moment<\/p>\n

The Wild capitalized on a Senators turnover late in the first that led to Hartman\u2019s first goal of the game.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Senators: Host the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Wild: Visit the Detroit Red Wings<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 4, 2026<\/p>\n

Lisa Wallace, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Ryan Hartman scored twice to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 4-1 win over the Ottawa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-582529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582529","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=582529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}