{"id":626942,"date":"2026-04-24T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:07:10","slug":"sanderson-leaves-in-2nd-period-of-game-3-for-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626942\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanderson leaves in 2nd period of Game 3 for Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA — Jake Sanderson<\/a> did not return for the third period for the Ottawa Senators in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Carolina Hurricanes at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sanderson, Ottawa’s top defenseman, was hit\u00a0in the head by Hurricanes forward Taylor Hall<\/a> at 4:24 of the second period. Hall was assessed a minor penalty for an illegal check on the play.<\/p>\n

Sanderson played 13:19 prior to leaving the game, including two shifts after the hit by Hall. He also appeared to hurt his hand blocking a shot before heading down the tunnel.<\/p>\n

Sanderson had two assists and was plus-2 in a game-high 43:06 in Ottawa’s 3-2 loss in double overtime in Game 2 on Monday. He led Senators defensemen with 54 points (14 goals, 40 assists) in 67 regular-season games.<\/p>\n

The Senators are already without defenseman Artem Zub<\/a>, who sustained an undisclosed injury early in the second period of a 2-0 loss in Game 1 on Saturday after checking Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis<\/a>. Zub also played on the top defense pair with Sanderson.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Tyler Kleven<\/a> returned to the lineup on Thursday after missing nine games with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

Ottawa, which trails the best-of-7 series 2-0, was losing 1-0 at the time of Sanderson’s injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA — Jake Sanderson did not return for the third period for the Ottawa Senators in Game 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-626942","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\/626942","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=626942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}