{"id":522169,"date":"2026-03-08T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:43:07","slug":"senators-sanderson-exits-vs-kraken-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522169\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Sanderson exits vs. Kraken with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"a5c75c80-08a3-4dee-b580-6e1182c28657\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jake-sanderson\/a5c75c80-08a3-4dee-b580-6e1182c28657\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jake Sanderson<\/a> suffered an upper-body injury late in the second period against the Seattle Kraken and was ruled out for the remainder of the game, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>The defenceman appeared to suffer the injury when he pinched in the offensive zone and took a big hit from Kraken defenceman Brandon Montour. <\/p>\n<p>Sanderson immediately left for the locker room, favouring his right shoulder, and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Senators head coach Travis Green had no update on Sanderson&#8217;s status after the game. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll know more tomorrow,&#8221; Green told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Any significant injury to Sanderson would be a big blow for a Senators team that is trying to push for a playoff spot. <\/p>\n<p>Sanderson, 23, entered Saturday&#8217;s game with 11 goals and 37 assists in 61 games. He is also fresh off winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics with Team USA.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators beat the Kraken 7-4 on Saturday and now sit four points behind the Boston Bruins for the final wild-card spot in the East. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Sanderson suffered an upper-body injury late in the second period against the Seattle Kraken and was ruled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-522169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}