{"id":627022,"date":"2026-04-24T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:00:08","slug":"ottawa-senators-jake-sanderson-leaves-game-3-vs-hurricanes-with-apparent-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627022\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators\u2019 Jake Sanderson leaves Game 3 vs. Hurricanes with apparent injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-sanderson\/8482105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-sanderson\/8482105\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Sanderson<\/a> left Thursday\u2019s Game 3 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> with an apparent injury and didn\u2019t return.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jake Sanderson will not return to tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Sanderson ne reviendra pas au jeu ce soir.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sens Communications (@Media_Sens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_Sens\/status\/2047494238481317917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanderson took a hit to the head from Hurricanes forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/taylor-hall\/8475791\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/taylor-hall\/8475791\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Hall<\/a> early in the second period. Hall received a two-minute minor penalty on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-2, left-shot defenceman remained in the game after the hit until halfway through the period when he took a puck off his right hand while the team the Senators were on a two-man advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanderson then left for the locker room and didn\u2019t return to the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa was trailing 1-0 at the time of the injury and ultimately fell 2-1 as the Hurricanes took a 3-0 series lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old blueliner was one of Ottawa\u2019s top defencemen this season, registering 14 goals and 54 points in 67 games in the regular season while averaging 24:50 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has two assists after the first two playoff games while averaging 35:16 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators trail the Hurricanes 2-0 in the series with Game 4 set on Saturday from the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators defenceman Jake Sanderson left Thursday\u2019s Game 3 against the Carolina Hurricanes with an apparent injury and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,303820,575,119769,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-627022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jake-sanderson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482105","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627022","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=627022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}