{"id":797614,"date":"2026-07-12T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:09:08","slug":"the-ottawa-senators-are-in-serious-danger-of-taking-another-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797614\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators Are In Serious Danger Of Taking Another Step Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless, the Sens are facing a ferocious fight just to be a playoff team, let alone be a legitimate front-runner to win the Stanley Cup next season. Does anyone really believe the reconstituted Senators lineup is a serious Cup threat? They would have needed help even if Tkachuk had chosen to stay in Ottawa. Now, the Sens feel like a fringe playoff team at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regardless, the Sens are facing a ferocious fight just to be a playoff team, let alone be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,448,20739,744],"class_list":["post-797614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797614","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=797614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}