{"id":552825,"date":"2026-03-22T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:57:15","slug":"senators-dennis-gilbert-leaves-game-after-big-hit-from-maple-leafs-ekman-larsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552825\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Dennis Gilbert leaves game after big hit from Maple Leafs&#8217; Ekman-Larsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"ottawa-senators\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> defenceman was slammed into the boards by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>&#8216; Oliver Ekman-Larsson late in the third period as Gilbert tried to make a play on the puck in his own end. <\/p>\n<p>Gilbert&#8217;s shoulders appeared to crunch into each other as he crumpled to the ice. He remained on the ice for quite a few moments before play was called dead and a trainer was brought on to help him up and off. He skated off the rink with some help from the Senators&#8217; support staff. He did not return. <\/p>\n<p>It was the 29-year-old&#8217;s sixth game of the season, he has recorded one assist. <\/p>\n<p>The Senators acquired Gilbert from the Philadelphia Flyers in a trade on Nov. 17, 2025. It was the second time he&#8217;s ended up in Ottawa after he landed there as part of the Dylan Cozens trade at the 2024-25 trade deadline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators defenceman was slammed into the boards by the Toronto Maple Leafs&#8216; Oliver Ekman-Larsson late in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-552825","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\/552825","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=552825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}