{"id":522134,"date":"2026-03-25T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522134\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:57:16","slug":"senators-agree-to-terms-with-defenceman-gabriel-eliasson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/522134\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators agree to terms with defenceman Gabriel Eliasson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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> announced Wednesday that the team has agreed to terms with defenceman Gabriel Eliasson on a three-year, entry-level contract set to start in the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Eliasson, 19, has spent the past two seasons with the Ontario Hockey League\u2019s Barrie Colts. The 6\u20197\u2019\u2019, 213 lb blueliner hit major junior career highs in goals (two) and points (eight) while taking part in 61 regular-season games in 2025-26. He also concluded the regular season leading the OHL in penalty minutes (122).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGabriel\u2019s game has matured since we drafted him,\u201d said GM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/steve-staios\/8458541\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/steve-staios\/8458541\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Staios<\/a> in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve been pleased with his development and his character and work ethic fit in perfectly with the team we\u2019re building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Kungsbacka Sweden, Eliasson was selected 39th overall by the Senators in the 2024 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators announced Wednesday that the team has agreed to terms with defenceman Gabriel Eliasson on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[4759,5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-522134","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-nhl","11":"tag-ottawa","12":"tag-ottawa-senators","13":"tag-ottawasenators","14":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116290408158147360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522134","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=522134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}