{"id":623748,"date":"2026-04-23T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:33:08","slug":"senators-kleven-crotty-in-lineup-for-game-3-vs-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623748\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Kleven, Crotty in lineup for Game 3 vs. Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 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> aim to rally from a 0-2 deficit, they will receive a boost to their blue line.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Travis Green subsequently confirmed Kleven would be back in the lineup and partnered with Cameron Crotty on the third pairing.<\/p>\n<p>Kleven, 24, has not played since an April 2 regular-season game against the Buffalo Sabres when he took a puck to the face.<\/p>\n<p>In 70 games in 2025-26, Kleven posted three goals and 15 assists. <\/p>\n<p>Crotty, meanwhile, will be making his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut after appearing in six regular-season games for the Senators this season and recording one assist.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Ottawa native has just eight career NHL games under his belt, with his other two split between the Arizona Coyotes (2023-24) and the Minnesota Wild (2024-25).<\/p>\n<p>In this first-round series between Carolina and Ottawa, the Hurricanes won 3-2 in overtime in Game 2 and 2-0 in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>Catch Game 3 on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ starting at 7:30 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Ottawa Senators aim to rally from a 0-2 deficit, they will receive a boost to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-623748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623748","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=623748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}