{"id":832946,"date":"2026-07-29T04:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832946\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:53:34","slug":"nhl-prospect-pool-overview-26-27-ottawa-senators-lean-into-skill-at-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832946\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Prospect Pool Overview &#8217;26-27: Ottawa Senators Lean Into Skill At The Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senators&#8217; 2025 first-round pick, Logan Hensler, has had a bit of an up-and-down last couple of years. He has flashes of the mobile, slick-passing defender we saw at the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, but they&#8217;ve faded as he&#8217;s more often looked a bit overwhelmed at the college level. He was better and played a more composed game this past year, but he still looks a bit lost. Just 19, Hensler has plenty of room to improve and get back on track. His raw tools are still intriguing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senators&#8217; 2025 first-round pick, Logan Hensler, has had a bit of an up-and-down last couple of years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-832946","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\/832946","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=832946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}