{"id":6234,"date":"2025-07-19T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6234\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:55:07","slug":"ottawa-senators-agree-to-one-year-contract-with-forward-xavier-bourgault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6234\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators agree to one-year contract with forward Xavier Bourgault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> have signed restricted free agent forward Xavier Bourgault to a one-year, two-way contract, it was announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old appeared in 61 games last season for\u00a0Ottawa&#8217;s AHL affiliate, the Belleville Senators, registering 12 goals and 14 assists for 26 points.<\/p>\n<p>Bourgault was originally selected in the first round (22nd overall) by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> in the 2021 NHL Draft. He was acquired last summer by the Sens in a trade.<\/p>\n<p>The L&#8217;Islet, Quebec native played four seasons with the Shawinigan Cataractes in the QMJHL, putting up 206 points across 197 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators have signed restricted free agent forward Xavier Bourgault to a one-year, two-way contract, it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234","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=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}