{"id":931839,"date":"2026-10-17T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931839\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:36:13","slug":"senators-jake-sanderson-expected-to-return-wednesday-vs-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931839\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Jake Sanderson expected to return Wednesday vs. Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the <a data-team=\"ottawa-senators\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>&#8216; last eight games, head coach Travis Green <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GraemeNichols\/status\/2111518948852478186\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> that he expects Sanderson to play Wednesday against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Sanderson last played in Ottawa&#8217;s season opener against the Toronto Maple Leafs, suffering a lower-body injury after logging just 4:29 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Even with one of their key players sidelined, the Senators have started the season red-hot, sitting tied for first in the Atlantic Division with a 6-2-0 record.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa visits the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night, with Philadelphia still searching for its first win of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing the Ottawa Senators&#8216; last eight games, head coach Travis Green told reporters that he expects Sanderson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-931839","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\/931839","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=931839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}