{"id":497227,"date":"2026-10-15T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497227\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:30:13","slug":"ottawa-senators-william-eklund-to-miss-both-games-vs-san-jose-sharks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497227\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators’ William Eklund to miss both games vs. San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks will not face forward William Eklund<\/a> in either of their two games against the Ottawa Senators this season.<\/p>\n

Eklund, who played 252 games over five seasons with the Sharks before the Senators acquired him in June, will miss 10-12 weeks after he had surgery<\/a> this week to repair an ankle tendon, Ottawa coach Travis Green<\/a> said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Eklund exited the Senators\u2019 game against Philadelphia on Oct. 8 in the first period after he was hit against the boards by Flyers defenseman Simon Benoit, causing the winger to crumple to the ice in pain.<\/p>\n

The Sharks, who begin a six-game road trip on Thursday night against the Nashville Predators, will play the Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Oct. 22, and at SAP Center on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n

Weeks after winning the No. 2 overall selection at the NHL draft lottery in May, the Sharks traded Eklund, winger Kasper Halttunen, and center Brandon Svoboda to the Senators for the No. 9 pick. Halttunen is in the AHL with Belleville, and Svoboda is in his third season at Boston University<\/p>\n

The Sharks used the No. 2 selection on winger Ivar Stenberg and the No. 9 pick on North Dakota defenseman Keaton Verhoeff. Stenberg, 19, has one goal and three assists in six games.<\/p>\n

Eklund, who turned 24 on Monday, had been fitting in well with the Senators before the injury with a goal and an assist in four games.<\/p>\n

Eklund, drafted seventh overall by the Sharks in 2021, played most of the 2021-22 season in his native Sweden and most of the 2022-23 season in the AHL with the Barracuda. Still, over five years, he was the Sharks\u2019 second-leading scorer with 163 points. In 2024-25, he established a new career high with 58 points in 77 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks will not face forward William Eklund in either of their two games against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":["post-497227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}