{"id":525124,"date":"2026-03-09T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:13:07","slug":"ottawa-senators-defenceman-jake-sanderson-out-week-to-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525124\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators\u2019 defenceman Jake Sanderson out week-to-week"},"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> is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/travis-green\/8456430\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/travis-green\/8456430\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Green<\/a> told reporters Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The update comes at a poor time for the Senators, who are five points back of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> for the final playoff spot with five weeks left in the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The blueliner was hurt in Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> when he left the game in the second period and did not return. Sanderson went to retrieve a puck in the corner and was hit hard into the boards by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brandon-montour\/8477986\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brandon-montour\/8477986\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Montour<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Travis Green says Jake Sanderson is week-to-week with an upper body injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Sens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jackson Starr (@JacksonStarr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacksonStarr\/status\/2031066091116703992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He skated gingerly to the Ottawa bench and held his right shoulder as he went down the tunnel. He was officially ruled out for the night later in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montour was not penalized on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanderson was a plus-1 with three shots on goal and one blocked shot in 12:52 before departing as the Sens went on to win 7-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old Sanderson has 11 goals and 37 assists for 48 points in 62 games so far this season for Ottawa while averaging a career-high 24:49 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sens recalled defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/dennis-gilbert\/8478502\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/dennis-gilbert\/8478502\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Gilbert<\/a> from the AHL\u2019s Belleville Senators on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gilbert, 29, has 12 assists in 31 games with Belleville this season and has also skated in one game with Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sens will be in Vancouver to take on the Canucks Monday evening.<\/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 is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, head coach Travis Green told reporters Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[712,49,48,83997,20739,84870],"class_list":["post-525124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jake-sanderson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482105","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525124","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=525124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}