{"id":554630,"date":"2026-04-17T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:51:24","slug":"senators-green-doesnt-rule-out-kleven-returning-for-game-1-vs-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554630\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Green doesn&#8217;t rule out Kleven returning for Game 1 vs. Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"ottawa-senators\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> may get an important physical presence back on their blue line.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"dbfe55f4-f7a4-495e-adb5-c39d8969f353\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/tyler-kleven\/dbfe55f4-f7a4-495e-adb5-c39d8969f353\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Kleven<\/a> practised in a non-contact jersey on Friday, and Senators coach Travis Green didn&#8217;t rule out his return for the team&#8217;s series opener against the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday when speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexadamsBTP_\/status\/2045161542644088994?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">with reporters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s closer to playing, obviously, he&#8217;s out with the group,&#8221; Green said. <\/p>\n<p>Kleven, 24, has been out since April 2 after sustaining an upper-body injury against the Buffalo Sabres. He was injured in the first period when a hard slapshot careened up and appeared to hit him in the head.<\/p>\n<p>The left shot blue-liner has three goals and 18 points while appearing in 69 games this season and leads all Ottawa defencemen with 126 hits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators may get an important physical presence back on their blue line. Tyler Kleven practised in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-554630","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554630","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=554630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}