{"id":418178,"date":"2026-01-20T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/418178\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:01:12","slug":"ottawa-senators-goaltender-linus-ullmark-addresses-leave-of-absence-with-tsns-claire-hanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/418178\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark addresses leave of absence with TSN&#8217;s Claire Hanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For the first time since taking a leave of absence from the <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> on Dec. 28, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/linus-ullmark\/8476999\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/linus-ullmark\/8476999\" target=\"_blank\">Linus Ullmark<\/a> has spoken about his situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old goaltender sat down with TSN\u2019s Claire Hanna in an interview that will appear in full later on Tuesday on TSN.ca and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TSN_Sports\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TSN_Sports\">TSN\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ullmark addresses the circumstances of his leave, as well as his mental health in the conversation with Hanna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ullmark also spoke about the erroneous rumours that spread on social media in the wake of his departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPeople wonder why hockey players, professional athletes, are not talking [publicly], why we\u2019re not showing any sort of emotions, why mental health in men and in women [is] a stigma,\u201d Ullmark tells Hanna in a clip released earlier Tuesday through TSN\u2019s social media channels. \u201cIt took [people online] less than 24 hours from my [leave of absence] to try to find reasons to why I\u2019m gone, saying that I\u2019m a homewrecker, a person that no one likes on the team and I can\u2019t defend myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ullmark, who is not active on social media, says that he didn\u2019t learn of the rumours firsthand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLike I didn\u2019t know about this until days later,\u201d Ullmark said. \u201cAnd it sucks because I have a family. I have a wife, I have kids. I get sent text messages asking like, \u2018Hey, are you guys good?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, why?\u2019 And then they tell you about the rumours and you\u2019re like \u2018What the f&#8212; is wrong with people?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2023 Vezina Trophy winner as the league\u2019s top goaltender, Ullmark is in his 12th NHL season and second with the Senators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Viewers in the Senators region can catch the game LIVE on TSN5 at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since taking a leave of absence from the Ottawa Senators on Dec. 28, Linus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[4759,5,40225,4,72,25,33540,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-418178","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-linus-ullmark-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476999","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-ottawa","13":"tag-ottawa-senators","14":"tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","15":"tag-ottawasenators","16":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115928503792174674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418178","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=418178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}