{"id":556786,"date":"2026-04-20T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:47:19","slug":"sens-defenceman-artem-zub-an-injury-question-mark-ahead-of-game-2-kleven-remains-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556786\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens defenceman Artem Zub an injury question mark ahead of Game 2; Kleven remains out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"posted\">By Canadian Press on April 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f6da5cde77e26d32017251fd71bd0627e5f238172f586407de39113d22076c15-400x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Ottawa Senators defenceman Artem Zub suiting up against the Kraken in Seattle on Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo\/Stephen Brashear)<\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH \u2014 Senators defenceman Artem Zub will be a game-time decision Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa head coach Travis Green said following his team\u2019s morning skate the shutdown blueliner\u2019s availability will be determined after warm-ups with the Senators trailing the Carolina Hurricanes 1-0 in their first-round playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>Zub was injured in the first period of Saturday\u2019s 2-0 loss to open the best-of-seven matchup after colliding with Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old ranked third for Ottawa in ice time during the regular season at 20 minutes 48 seconds, trailing only regular top-pair defence partner Jake Sanderson (24:50) and Thomas Chabot (22:35).<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Kleven wore a regular jersey at the morning skate for the first time since taking a puck to the face in a game against the Buffalo Sabres in early April. The hulking defender sported extra protection for his jaw Monday, but Green said the 24-year-old will sit for an eighth straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa had to go 12 skaters deep into its blue-line reserves at one point during the regular season because of a rash of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a lot of new defencemen playing,\u201d Green said. \u201cYou could tell that our group was a little bit concerned, even from the coaching standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we\u2019ve gone through that, I think that\u2019s prepared us now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series shifts to Ottawa for Game 3 on Thursday night at Canadian Tire Centre. Game 4 is set for Saturday afternoon in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>14<br \/> -13   <br class=\"clr\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press on April 20, 2026. Ottawa Senators defenceman Artem Zub suiting up against the Kraken in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-556786","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116438056933937029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556786","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=556786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}