Senators look to stay hot at home in clash vs. Blue Jackets
Mar 27, 2025; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Ottawa Senators right wing Michael Amadio (22) scores against Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) in the third period at Little Caesars Arena. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images The Ottawa Senators will look to build on their lead in the Eastern Conference wild-card race when they host the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night.
The Senators (38-28-5, 81 points) hold the first wild card in the East, six points up on the Blue Jackets, the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Rangers.
Ottawa, which is 20-10-2 on home ice this season, is eight points behind the third-seed Tampa Bay Lightning in the Atlantic Division with a game in hand.
Ottawa enters Saturday’s action after edging the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 on Thursday night.
Thomas Chabot, Tim Stutzle, David Perron and Michael Amadio scored for the Senators, who are 8-3-0 in their last 11 games.
Stutzle paces the Senators with 50 assists and 71 points in 71 games this season, while captain Brady Tkachuk has a team-leading 29 goals in 69 games.
“I really liked our game,” Senators coach Travis Green said. “We were very resilient in the first period when we took five penalties, and we just kept playing.”
Goaltender Linus Ullmark made 31 saves to improve to 20-13-3 in 38 games this season to go with a 2.78 goals-against average and a .909 save percentage.
“I think we played a lot of good minutes (in Detroit), more than we did in (Tuesday’s 3-2 loss to Buffalo),” said Ullmark, who is 5-2-2 with a .930 save percentage and a 2.33 GAA in nine career appearances against the Blue Jackets.
“(Detroit) is a good team, and they are desperate, but we responded well.”
Saturday will be the first of three meetings between the Blue Jackets and Senators over the next 11 days. The teams will reconvene in Ottawa on April 6 before wrapping up the season series in Columbus on April 8.
The Senators took two of three meetings between the clubs last season, including both matchups in Ottawa.
Columbus travels to Ottawa following a 7-6 shootout win on home ice over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night.
Kent Johnson scored the shootout winner for Columbus, which erased 3-0 and 5-3 deficits and climbed back into a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with the win.
“It wasn’t up to our standard; that’s on us for our starts,” captain Boone Jenner said. “I think that’s happened in a few games in a row here, so it’s something that we need to fix going forward. Obviously, it’s not easy when you spot the other team a couple of goals in the first period, so it’s on us. We can start better, but after that I liked how we gathered ourselves.”
Jenner (two goals, assist) and Dante Fabbro (goal, two assists) each had three points for the Blue Jackets (33-29-9, 75 points).
Denton Mateychuk, Mathieu Olivier and Kirill Marchenko each had a goal and an assist in the victory for Columbus.
Marchenko leads the Blue Jackets with 27 goals in 68 games this season, while defenseman Zach Werenski has team-leading totals in assists (50) and points (70).
Netminder Daniil Tarasov, Saturday’s likely starter, is 7-8-2 with an .882 save percentage and a 3.51 GAA in 17 starts this season.
–Field Level Media
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Xiaomis new hyper car concept has the strangest cockpit weve ever seen
Xiaomi likes to bring cars to Barcelona; the company gave us the first glimpse of its SU7 Ultra supercar during last year’s MWC in March.
This year, however, Xiaomi has unveiled something that’s pretty far out there, even by its own standards. Called the Xiaomi Vision Gran Turismo, it’s a hypercar that was designed to go really fast while slicing through the air in a way not many cars (or race cars, for that matter) can (Xiaomi says it’s been “sculpted by the wind”).
It feels kinda empty in there.
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The company will bring the concept car to its MWC show floor in Barcelona on March 2, presumably when we’ll learn more about its powertrain, acceleration, battery, and other trivialities. Today, however, Xiaomi was mostly focused on how the air flows through the car, using a variety of wind tunnels and channels (and even a moving part on the car’s bottom) to make it more efficient.
The wheels and wheel covers are special, too.
Credit: Stan Schroeder/Mashable
Even the car’s wheels have special covers that are (somehow) magnetically set in place so they don’t rotate while the car moves, as that would also increase drag.
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I bet your car doesn’t have a cocoon-shaped sofa.
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Inside, it gets even nuttier. The seats are out; instead, you sit in a “cocoon-shaped sofa” with an x-wing steering wheel with five tiny displays, some of which apparently double as (contextual?) buttons. Most of the things you associate with a traditional car are gone; instead, it’s you in that sofa-shaped cockpit, that steering wheel, and the road. The car’s a two-seater, so don’t expect to bring your family on a trip in this one.
Fortunately, you might be able to get a cocoon-shaped sofa/cockpit for your home.
Credit: Stan Schroeder/Mashable
In fact, most people probably won’t be able to afford a car like this, but Xiaomi’s got you covered, as it plans to release a gaming console/cockpit shaped just like the car’s cockpit, so you can race around in your own little cocoon in the relative safety of your home.
We don’t know how fast it goes. We don’t know where the batteries are, given that the car appears to be mostly wind tunnels under that cockpit. We don’t know if it’s ever going to make it to market. But boy, does it all look cool.
We’ll hopefully find out more on March 2 when that show floor opens, so stay tuned for pics and videos.
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Tundra Esports advances to grand final of DreamLeague Season 28 playoffs
Tundra Esports swept Team Liquid in the upper-bracket final on Saturday to advance to the grand final of the DreamLeague Season 28 playoffs.
The grand final on Sunday will pit Tundra Esports against the winner of the lower-bracket final earlier in the day between Team Liquid and Aurora Gaming in the double-elimination format.
The $1 million Dota 2 event began with 16 teams competing in a round-robin stage split into two groups of eight teams. All series consisted of two games, and the top four teams from each group advanced to Group Stage 2, a single round robin featuring best-of-three matches that ran through Friday.
The playoffs feature best-of-three matches until the grand final, which will be best-of-five.
The championship team will receive $250,000 in prize money and a $40,000 club reward. The runner-up side will get $100,000 and a $30,000 club reward.
Aurora Gaming opened play on Saturday with a 2-1 win over Xtreme Gaming in the lower-bracket semifinal. Xtreme Gaming opened with a win in 40 minutes on red before Aurora Gaming rallied to wins in 47 and 29 minutes, both on red.
Russia’s Egor “Nightfall” Grigorenko logged a 21-4-28 kill-death-assist ratio for Aurora Gaming, while teammate Artem “Lorenof” Melnyk of Ukraine post a 23-8-30 K-D-A over three games. Wang “Ame” Chunyu of China had a 23-9-13 K-D-A ratio for Xtreme Gaming, which finished fourth in the tournament.
Tundra Esports dispatched Team Liquid 2-0 in the upper-bracket final, winning in 46 minutes on red and 39 minutes on green.
Ivan “Pure” Moskalenko of Russia posted a 32-2-19 K-D-A ratio for Tundra Esports and teammate Neta “33” Shapira of Israel had a 24-5-30. Michael “MiCKe” Vu of Sweden posted a 13-10-6 ratio for Team Liquid.
Dream League Season 28 prize pool, with prize money and club reward
1. $250,000, $40,000
2. $125,000, $30,000
3. $80,000, $25,000
4. $60,000, $20,000 — Xtreme Gaming
5. $45,000, $15,000 — Team Falcons
6. $35,000, $15,000 — PARIVISION
7. $30,000, $12,500 — BetBoom Team
8. $25,000, $12,500 — MOUZ
9-10. $20,000, $10,000 — OG, Natus Vincere
11-12. $17,500, $10,000 — Team Yandex, Team Spirit
13-14. $15,000, $10,000 — paiN Gaming, GamerLegion
15-16. $10,000, $10,000 — Yakult Brothers, Execration
–Field Level Media
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LYON, Cloud9 in LCS Lock-In grand final
A backlit keyboard is part of the gear online video game streamer Jordan Woodruff uses in his Gilbert home.
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LYON knocked out Sentinels to earn a meeting on Sunday with Cloud9 in the grand final of the League Championship Series 2026 Lock-In at Los Angeles.
LYON won 3-1 on Saturday in the lower-bracket final, taking the first map in 31 minutes as Kim “Berserker” Min-cheol of South Korea posted a 7-0-1 kill-death-assist ratio. LYON won again in 37 minutes as Niship “Dhokla” Doshi, an American/Indian player, had a 7-3-6 K-D-A and Berserker a 5-0-6.
Sentinels stayed alive with a victory in 34 minutes in the third game as Ham “HamBak” Yoo-jin of South Korea recorded a 5-0-8 K-D-A.
But LYON wrapped up the match by winning the fourth game in 39 minutes on red. Berserker contributed a 6-3-7 K-D-A.
Following the eight-team Swiss stage in the League of Legends event, six teams competed in the double-elimination playoffs, with all matches best-of-five. The overall winner qualifies for the First Stand Tournament, while the second- and third-place teams will head to the Americas Cup.
Both of the latter two events will be contested in Sao Paulo.
Cloud9, which finished atop the Swiss stage standings with a 3-0 record, has moved through the playoffs by beating FlyQuest 3-0 in the upper-bracket semifinal and Sentinels 3-0 in the upper-bracket final.
LYON, who finished fifth in the Swiss stage, eliminated FlyQuest with a 3-0 victory in the lower-bracket quarterfinals, then a 3-1 triumph over Team Liquid in the bracket’s semifinal before Saturday’s victory.
2026 League Championship Series Lock-In at Los Angeles prize pool
1. TBD, qualifies for First Stand Tournament
2. TBD, qualifies for America’s Cup
3. Sentinels, qualifies for America’s Cup
4. Team Liquid
5-6. FlyQuest, Disguised
7. Dignitas
8. Shopify Rebellion
–Field Level Media
Xiaomis new hyper car concept has the strangest cockpit weve ever seen
Tundra Esports advances to grand final of DreamLeague Season 28 playoffs
