{"id":791128,"date":"2026-07-10T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791128\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:04:12","slug":"ottawa-senators-sign-forward-xavier-bourgault-to-one-year-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791128\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators sign forward Xavier Bourgault to one-year, two-way deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <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> have signed forward Xavier Bourgault to a one-year, two-way contract, it was announced Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The signing comes after Bourgault filed for arbitration earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old made his NHL debut with the Senators this past season, skating in two games. He played in 70 games for the AHL\u2019s Belleville Senators in 2025-26 where he tallied 25 goals and 32 assists for 57 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bourgault was a first-round pick (No. 22 overall) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> in the 2021 NHL Draft. He was acquired in July of 2024 by the Sens along with forward Jake Chiasson in exchange for forward Roby Jarventie and 2025 fourth-round pick pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Xavier Bourgault to a one-year, two-way contract, it was announced Thursday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,119769,85],"class_list":["post-791128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791128","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=791128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}