{"id":262013,"date":"2025-10-23T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/262013\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:38:10","slug":"ottawa-senators-recall-leevi-merilainen-after-ahl-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/262013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators recall Leevi Merilainen after AHL stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators recalled goaltender Leevi Merilainen from the AHL\u2019s Belleville Senators on Thursday and assigned goalie Mads Sogaard to Belleville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Merilainen began the season as the backup to starting netminder Linus Ullmark but struggled in his only start, allowing seven goals to the Buffalo Sabres in an 8-4 loss on Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-2 goalie was assigned to Belleville four days later, where he went 1-1-0 with a 3.50 goals-against average and .897 save percentage before being recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Merilainen was a key cog in helping the Senators return to the playoffs for the first time since 2016-17 last season, going 8-3-1 with a 1.99 GAA and .925 save percentage in his stint with the NHL club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators are taking on the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday with Ullmark expected to start, according to Postmedia\u2019s Bruce Garrioch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ullmark has a 2-3-1 record this season with a 3.80 GAA and .854 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators used these lines Thursday\u2019s morning skate:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Sens lines from the morning skate.<\/p>\n<p>St\u00fctzle-Cozens-Batherson <br \/>Amadio-Pinto-Giroux <br \/>Cousins-Greig-Perron<br \/>Lycksell-Eller-Zetterlund <br \/>MacDermid <\/p>\n<p>Sanderson-Zub <br \/>Chabot-Jensen <br \/>Kleven-Matinpalo <br \/>Xxxxx-Spence<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN 1200 Ottawa (@TSN1200) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN1200\/status\/1981368092170342695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[4759,5,37751,40225,40224,4,72,25,33540,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-262013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-leevi-merilinen-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482447","11":"tag-linus-ullmark-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476999","12":"tag-mads-sogaard-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481544","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-ottawa","15":"tag-ottawa-senators","16":"tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","17":"tag-ottawasenators","18":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115424232098662079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}