{"id":792389,"date":"2026-07-10T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792389\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:16:20","slug":"senators-sign-forward-xavier-bourgault-to-one-year-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792389\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators sign forward Xavier Bourgault to one-year, two-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783671380_80_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs centre Max Domi (11) grabs Ottawa Senators&#8217; Xavier Bourgault (53) during second period NHL pre-season hockey action in Toronto, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Paige Taylor White<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 9, 2026 | 6:29 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Xavier Bourgault to a one-year, two-way contract, the NHL team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was the second-leading scorer for the club\u2019s American Hockey League affiliate, the Belleville Senators, with 25 goals and 57 points this past season.<\/p>\n<p>Bourgault, from Montmagny, Que., was called up twice by Ottawa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs centre Max Domi (11) grabs Ottawa Senators&#8217; Xavier Bourgault (53) during second period NHL pre-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-792389","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\/792389","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=792389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}