{"id":465951,"date":"2023-10-16T04:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465951"},"modified":"2023-10-16T04:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:48:59","slug":"senators-defeat-lightning-5-2-tkachuk-scores-twice","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/senators-defeat-lightning-5-2-tkachuk-scores-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators defeat Lightning 5-2; Tkachuk scores twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Senators defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 in a convincing manner on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2-0 AT HOME!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoSensGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoSensGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GKIFebbBQX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GKIFebbBQX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ottawa Senators (@Senators) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Senators\/status\/1713732205967495178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brady Tkachuk scored twice for a second time this season, while Mathieu Joseph, Vladimir Tarasenko and Tim St\u00fctzle added a goal of their own. Goaltender Jonas Korpisalo made 22 saves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two games of playing our type of hockey,&#8221; Tkachuk said. &#8220;That\u2019s just been our goal. We don\u2019t care about wins or losses, it\u2019s just how quickly we get to our game. I think we\u2019ve shown that we\u2019re starting to find it now, and I think we\u2019re going to keep building on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the Lightning Anthony Cirelli and Tanner Jeannot, while goaltender Matt Tomkins made 33 saves in his NHL debut.<\/p>\n<p>It was relatively close game until midway through, as the Senators were leading only by a goal, but then Tkachuk&#8217;s brilliance kicked in as he was able to give his team a breathing room.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Ottawa is a match against Washington on Wednesday night, while the Senators visit Buffalo on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_24122\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FiaOtPlpiQ0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/FiaOtPlpiQ0\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Senators defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 in a convincing manner on Sunday night. 2-0 AT HOME!!#GoSensGo pic.twitter.com\/GKIFebbBQX &mdash; Ottawa Senators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465952,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17033,17032,17164],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[21778,18345,18408],"acf":{"announce":"The Ottawa team secured a comfortable victory","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465953,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465951\/revisions\/465953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465951"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465951"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}