{"id":8409,"date":"2025-07-19T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8409\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:00:08","slug":"senators-sign-xavier-bourgault-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8409\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators sign Xavier Bourgault to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/xavier-bourgault\/2b557c55-9c6d-45f0-8d23-32703894bc4f\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"2b557c55-9c6d-45f0-8d23-32703894bc4f\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Xavier Bourgault<\/a> and the Senators agreed to a one-year, two-way contract through the 2025-26 season, the team announced Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The forward played primarily with the AHL&#8217;s Belleville Senators last season, appearing in 61 games, scoring 12 goals and 26 points. <\/p>\n<p>Bourgault, 22, was originally selected 22nd overall by the Edmonton Oilers at the 2021 NHL Draft, but was traded to Ottawa with Jake Chiasson in exchange for a fourth-round pick and winger Roby Jarventie last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his trade, Bourgault spent two years with AHL Bakersfield, scoring 21 goals and 54 points in 118 games for the Condors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xavier Bourgault and the Senators agreed to a one-year, two-way contract through the 2025-26 season, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-8409","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\/8409","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=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}