Hurricanes down Senators to complete sweep - BERITAJA

OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators person been swept retired of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Logan Stankoven the go-ahead extremity successful the 3rd play arsenic the Carolina Hurricanes defeated Ottawa 4-2 to triumph the teams’ first-round bid 4-0.

Taylor Hall added a extremity and an assistance earlier Sebastian Aho buried 2 pucks into the quiet nett for the apical seed successful the Eastern Conference. Frederik Andersen made 25 saves. Seth Jarvis chipped successful 2 assists.

Drake Batherson, pinch a extremity and an assist, and Dylan Cozens replied for the Senators, who put up conscionable 5 times successful 4 games and ne'er led against the Hurricanes. Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots. Rookie defenceman Carter Yakemchuk added 2 assists successful his playoff debut.

Of the 213 NHL teams to autumn down 3-0 successful a seven-game series, conscionable 4 person travel each the measurement backmost to triumph — the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, 1980 New York Islanders, 2010 Philadelphia Flyers and 2014 Los Angeles Kings.

Ottawa besides trailed past spring’s first-round matchup pinch Toronto 3-0 aft 7 years extracurricular the post-season tourney earlier yet falling successful six games.

Stankoven scored his 4th extremity successful arsenic galore contests astatine 9:10 of the last play connected a powerfulness play disconnected rebound from the extremity boards.

Batherson came adjacent to equalizing again pinch six minutes astatine the broadside of Andersen’s to spell earlier Carolina was whistled for excessively galore men. But Ottawa’ anemic powerfulness play again couldn’t make immoderate value looks against a high-pressure punishment kill.

Aho scored into the quiet earlier Cozens made it 3-2 pinch 1:51 near connected the clock. Aho past sealed the bid for bully pinch different quiet netter.

Carolina took the first 2 contests astatine location successful the best-of-seven matchup — 2-0 and 3-2 successful double-overtime — earlier grinding retired a 2-1 triumph successful Game 3.

The Senators’ battered blue-line took different large rustle Thursday erstwhile Jake Sanderson suffered a concussion aft taking an forbidden cheque to the caput from Hall.

The smooth-skating 23-year-old joined Artem Zub (undisclosed injury) and Nick Jensen (knee) connected the sidelines to proceed an wounded inclination successful a run that has seen Ottawa usage 12 defenceman since the Olympic break.

Carolina opened the scoring successful a physical, nasty 2nd play erstwhile Hall hit Ullmark five-hole astatine 15:15 aft Mark Jankowski made a large changeable artifact astatine the different end.

Ottawa’s powerfulness play — 0-for-12 successful the bid entering play and without overmuch going Saturday — yet collapsed done 17:08 erstwhile Drake Batherson tipped a Tim Stutzle one-timer past Andersen wrong the towel-waving Canadian Tire Centre aft Ullmark denied Jordan Staal successful unsocial short-handed.

Emotions boiled complete earlier successful the play aft Senators defenceman Tyler Kleven crushed Hurricanes counterpart Alexander Nikishin pinch a immense deed that near the Russian pensive and needing thief disconnected the ice.

Stutzle about scored connected a short-handed breakaway earlier Ottawa skipper Brady Tkachuk started throwing his weight about connected Hall and Jalen Chatfield. A monolithic scrum ensued astatine centre aft the whistle, pinch Carolina reliable feline Nicolas Deslauriers seeking retribution.

The Senators grounded to link connected a 5-on-3 powerfulness play — shades of a disastrous two-man advantage successful Game 3 — earlier the teams traded precocious goals.

Ottawa deed galore posts and crossbars successful the first 3 games and again recovered robust early successful the first erstwhile Lars Eller scooped a puck conscionable disconnected target from successful tight.

The Senators had different sewage a two-man advantage for 33 seconds later successful the period, but grounded to registry changeable connected target.

Ullmark robbed Staal astatine the different extremity connected a Carolina man advantage earlier Nikolas Mantipalo blocked a Aho effort from the slot.

This study by BERITAJA was first published April 25, 2026.