{"id":876718,"date":"2026-10-09T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876718\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:54:08","slug":"eklund-out-extended-period-of-time-for-senators-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876718\/","title":{"rendered":"Eklund out &#8216;extended&#8217; period of time for Senators with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eklund left during the first period of a 2-1 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday after being hit awkwardly into the boards by Flyers defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/simon-benoit-8481122\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Benoit<\/a>. Eklund was unable to put weight on his left leg as he headed down the tunnel and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Eklund has two points (one goal, one assist) in four games this season. Selected by the San Jose Sharks with the No. 7 pick in the 2021 NHL Draft, he has 165 points (51 goals, 114 assists) in 256 regular-season games with the Sharks and Senators, including three straight seasons with at least 15 goals and 45 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He came to Ottawa in a trade with San Jose on June 23. He was acquired along with forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kasper-halttunen-8484176\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasper Halttunen<\/a> and the rights to forward prospect\u00a0Brandon Svoboda for the No. 9 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, which the Senators acquired from the Florida Panthers in the trade for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brady-tkachuk-8480801\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Tkachuk<\/a> on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andre-burakovsky-8477444\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Burakovsky<\/a>\u00a0and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kurtis-macdermid-8477073\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kurtis MacDermid<\/a>, each dealing with an upper-body injury, participated in an optional practice Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Green said Burakovsky is close to returning and could play against the Nashville Predators on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; SN1, TVAS-D, SCRIPPS). Defensemen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jake-sanderson-8482105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Sanderson<\/a> (undisclosed) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/artem-zub-8482245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artem Zub<\/a> (knee) each is expected to join the team in the next few days, Green said, but neither has a firm return date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NHL.com independent correspondent Zoe Pierce contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eklund left during the first period of a 2-1 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-876718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}