{"id":371877,"date":"2025-12-23T22:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/371877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:39:37","slug":"senators-shane-pinto-tyler-kleven-close-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/371877\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Shane Pinto, Tyler Kleven close to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injured players <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/shane-pinto\/4fbedf28-5b1b-4e78-9d5e-3a1609916c60\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"4fbedf28-5b1b-4e78-9d5e-3a1609916c60\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane Pinto<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/tyler-kleven\/dbfe55f4-f7a4-495e-adb5-c39d8969f353\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"dbfe55f4-f7a4-495e-adb5-c39d8969f353\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Kleven<\/a> both skated with the team at Tuesday&#8217;s morning skate.  Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexadamsBTP_\/status\/2003499729213358266?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Travis Green said<\/a> that neither player will suit up for Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Buffalo Sabres, but the hope is that they could both return in one of the two games after the Christmas break. <\/p>\n<p>The Senators travel to Toronto to take on the struggling Maple Leafs on Saturday, then return home to host the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pinto, 25, has not played since Dec. 4 when he suffered an upper-body injury against the New York Rangers. <\/p>\n<p>Despite missing almost three weeks, Pinto still has the third-most goals on the team with 12. <\/p>\n<p>Kleven, 23, was injured in Saturday&#8217;s win over the Chicago Blackhawks. He left with a lower-body injury after falling awkwardly along the boards and did not play in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Boston Bruins. <\/p>\n<p>For the season, the left-shot defenceman has five assists in 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of five straight, the Senators head into Tuesday&#8217;s contest against the red-hot Sabres sixth in the Atlantic Division with a 18-13-4 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injured players Shane Pinto and Tyler Kleven both skated with the team at Tuesday&#8217;s morning skate. Head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-371877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115771288105306588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371877","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=371877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}