{"id":931004,"date":"2026-10-13T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931004\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:28:15","slug":"ottawa-senators-nikolas-matinpalo-exits-vs-new-jersey-devils-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931004\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Nikolas Matinpalo exits vs. New Jersey Devils with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikolas-matinpalo\/8484321\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikolas-matinpalo\/8484321\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolas Matinpalo<\/a> was ruled out for the remainder of Monday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Per TSN\u2019s Claire Hanna, Matinpalo suffered the injury near the end of the first period. He had 2:19 of ice time before leaving the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matinpalo skated in his first full NHL season in 2025-26, recording five assists in 50 games while averaging 15:38 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An undrafted free agent, the 28-year-old signed a one-year, entry-level contract with Ottawa in May of 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to tonight\u2019s contest, Matinpalo had skated in 100 career NHL games, scoring one goal with nine points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also helped Finland win gold at the 2026 IIHF World Championship and won Olympic bronze in February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators have had injury problems on the blueline to start the season with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-sanderson\/8482105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-sanderson\/8482105\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Sanderson<\/a> exiting early in the team\u2019s opening game against Toronto with a lower-body injury while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/artem-zub\/8482245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/artem-zub\/8482245\" target=\"_blank\">Artem Zub<\/a> has yet to make his season debut as he continues to recover from a knee injury he suffered during last year\u2019s playoffs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators defenceman Nikolas Matinpalo was ruled out for the remainder of Monday\u2019s game against the New Jersey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[712,49,48,319731,20739,84870],"class_list":["post-931004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nikolas-matinpalo-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484321","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931004","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=931004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}