{"id":597835,"date":"2026-04-11T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597835\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:48:07","slug":"senators-move-closer-to-clinching-playoff-spot-with-win-over-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597835\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators move closer to clinching playoff spot with win over Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ridly Greig scored a short-handed goal, Linus Ullmark stopped all 23 shots he faced and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"ottawa-senators\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> moved to the verge of clinching a playoff spot by shutting out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/new-york-islanders\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-islanders\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Islanders<\/a> 3-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa is in if Detroit loses at home in regulation to New Jersey. The Islanders&#8217; hopes took another hit with a fifth loss in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Senators captain Brady Tkachuk took a puck up high late in the second period, returned for one shift in the third and then did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Greig made it a 1-0 game with 6:54 remaining in the first. Jake Sanderson scored in the third, and Michael Amadio sealed it with an empty-netter. The Islanders went 0 for 5 on the power play.<\/p>\n<p>New York is now 1-1 since firing coach Patrick Roy and hiring Peter DeBoer as his replacement. Ilya Sorokin allowed two goals on 15 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Senators: Visit the Devils on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Islanders: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ridly Greig scored a short-handed goal, Linus Ullmark stopped all 23 shots he faced and the Ottawa Senators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-597835","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\/597835","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=597835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}