{"id":83053,"date":"2025-08-20T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83053\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:50:07","slug":"3-questions-facing-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83053\/","title":{"rendered":"3 questions facing Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jake-sanderson-8482105\" title=\"Jake Sanderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Sanderson<\/a> continue his ascension to become one of the NHL\u2019s elite defensemen?<\/p>\n<p>An argument could be made that he\u2019s already reached the cusp of doing that. Just ask Senators forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tim-stutzle-8482116\" title=\"Tim Stutzle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Stutzle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told you guys, I believe he can be a top two (defenseman) in the League,&#8221; Stutzle said during the Eastern Conference First Round against the Toronto Maple Leafs last season. &#8220;I really believe that. Otherwise, I wouldn&#8217;t say it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He does it all &#8212; offensively, defensively, it&#8217;s pretty impressive to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jake, the son of former NHL forward Geoff Sanderson and the No. 5 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, has 127 points (25 goals, 102 assists) in 236 regular-season games. The 23-year-old was one of the United States\u2019 best players at the 4 Nations Face-Off in February and is a strong candidate to make the Olympic team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Can Jake Sanderson continue his ascension to become one of the NHL\u2019s elite defensemen? An argument could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-83053","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\/83053","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=83053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}