{"id":372114,"date":"2025-12-24T01:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/372114\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:54:14","slug":"senators-shane-pinto-tyler-kleven-skating-but-no-update-on-when-they-might-return-to-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/372114\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Shane Pinto, Tyler Kleven skating but no update on when they might return to lineup"},"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> centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/shane-pinto\/8481596\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/shane-pinto\/8481596\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Pinto<\/a> and defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tyler-kleven\/8482095\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tyler-kleven\/8482095\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Kleven<\/a> have both returned to skating, but head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/travis-green\/8456430\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/travis-green\/8456430\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Green<\/a> doesn\u2019t know when they\u2019ll be ready for game action. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No update on when Tyler Kleven and Shane Pinto might return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Sens<\/a> lineup but both are skating &amp; Green says they\u2019re getting closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Claire Hanna (@clahanna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clahanna\/status\/2003512755278709032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old Pinto is on the injured reserve with a lower-body injury suffered on Dec. 4 while Kleven, 23, missed Sunday\u2019s blowout win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> with a lower-body injury suffered Friday in win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pinto has 12 goals and six assists over 27 games in 2025-26, his sixth season with the Sens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kleven has five assists in 32 games in his fourth season with the organization. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa is currently on a four-game win streak, scoring 19 goals over that span, and sit sixth in the Atlantic Division with a 18-13-4 record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sens host the red-hot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, winners of six straight games, on Tuesday in their last game before the Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It marks the first game for former Senators forward Josh Norris at the the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa after he was dealt to the Sabres at the trade deadline season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Senators\u2019 Practice Lines <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">F<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tkachuk-St\u00fctzle-Zetterlund <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Perron-Cozens-Batherson <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Amadio-Greig-Giroux <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDermide-Halliday-Cousins <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">D<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanderson-Zub<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chabot-Spence<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jensen-Matinpalo<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">G<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ullmark\/Merilainen<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators centre Shane Pinto and defenceman Tyler Kleven have both returned to skating, but head coach Travis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,33540,38578,34306],"class_list":{"0":"post-372114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","12":"tag-shane-pinto-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481596","13":"tag-tyler-kleven-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482095"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115772054839258452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372114","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=372114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}