{"id":789840,"date":"2026-07-09T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789840\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:42:08","slug":"senators-xavier-bourgault-settle-in-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789840\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators, Xavier Bourgault settle in arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It marks the first arbitration settlement of the NHL off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Bourgault, 23, is set to earn $850,000 at the NHL level and $265,000 in the AHL.<\/p>\n<p>The L&#8217;islet, Que., native was the 22nd-overall pick of the 2021 draft by the Edmonton Oilers, and was traded to Ottawa in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He made his NHL regular-season debut with the Senators last season, playing in two games for a total of 11:55 of time on ice. He logged three shots on goal and three hits in that span.<\/p>\n<p>Bourgault spent most of the season with the AHL&#8217;s Belleville Senators, racking up a career-high 57 points (25 goals, 32 assists) through 70 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It marks the first arbitration settlement of the NHL off-season. Bourgault, 23, is set to earn $850,000 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-789840","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\/789840","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=789840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}