{"id":591754,"date":"2026-04-07T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:21:08","slug":"senators-thomas-chabot-not-far-from-return-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591754\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Thomas Chabot &#8216;not far&#8217; from return, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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=\"noopener nofollow\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> defenceman is &#8220;not far off&#8221; from returning to the lineup, coach Travis Green told reporters after morning skate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators said Chabot would miss four to eight weeks after suffering a broken arm on March 23 and then undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>But the veteran appears to be a quick healer. He was on the ice for morning skate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, he&#8217;s back soon,&#8221; Green said.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators have been hit hard by injuries on defence in recent weeks, so Chabot&#8217;s return would give the team a huge boost in its fight for the final playoff spot in the East.<\/p>\n<p>Chabot has seven goals and 24 assists in 55 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators defenceman is &#8220;not far off&#8221; from returning to the lineup, coach Travis Green told reporters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}