{"id":467330,"date":"2023-10-26T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467330"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:17:35","slug":"senators-shane-pinto-suspended-for-41-games-for-illegal-betting","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/senators-shane-pinto-suspended-for-41-games-for-illegal-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Shane Pinto suspended for 41 games for illegal betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto has been suspended for 41 games for illegal online betting, US and Canadian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old American is the first hockey player to be punished for such a thing since betting on the Internet was allowed. As an NHL player, he is strictly prohibited from engaging in such activities.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Pinto played in all 82 of Ottawa&#8217;s regular season games. He scored 20 goals and had 15 assists for a total of 35 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shane Pinto has been suspended 41 games for activities related to sports wagering. Hopefully he at least used <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/canada\/betting\/betway\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">BetWay<\/a>\u2122, official helmet sponsor of the Ottawa Senators. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoSensGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoSensGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6xhHyFWsDL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6xhHyFWsDL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JFresh (@JFreshHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFreshHockey\/status\/1717561503086211307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The youngster&#8217;s suspension is retroactive to the start of this season. Thus, he will be able to return to the ice on January 21, 2024 when visiting the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto has been suspended for 41 games for illegal online betting, US and Canadian media reported. The 22-year-old American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":467334,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17032,21554],"news_category":[16709,16715],"gn_keywords":[18345,21555],"acf":{"announce":"He will be back on January 21","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507484,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467330\/revisions\/507484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467330"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467330"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}