{"id":410519,"date":"2026-01-16T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410519\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:19:34","slug":"ottawa-goalie-linus-ullmark-taking-leave-of-absence-for-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410519\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa goalie Linus Ullmark taking leave of absence for personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA (AP) \u2014 Ottawa goalie Linus Ullmark is taking a leave of absence for personal reasons, Senators general manager Steve Staios said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark has a 14-8-5 record this season with a .881 save percentage and 2.95 goals-against average. He was pulled in the second period of the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/senators-maple-leafs-score-d594c9909f08f1797d4da95c29672395\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senators\u2019 7-5 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> on Saturday after allowing four goals on 14 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark, a 32-year-old Swede, joined the Senators in a trade from the Boston Bruins in June 2024. He signed a four-year, $33 million contract extension with Ottawa last October.<\/p>\n<p>Senators backup Leevi Merilainen has a .874 save percentage and 3.43 goals-against average in 10 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa next plays Monday at home against Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA (AP) \u2014 Ottawa goalie Linus Ullmark is taking a leave of absence for personal reasons, Senators general&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[95,897,5,8380,539,4,292,72,25,5157,73,43,2583,5158,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-410519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-columbus","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-leevi-merilainen","12":"tag-linus-ullmark","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-hockey","15":"tag-ottawa","16":"tag-ottawa-senators","17":"tag-ottawasenators","18":"tag-senators","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-transactions","21":"tag-steve-staios","22":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115904038069104570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410519","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=410519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}