Ottawa Senators swing their axe with opening night on the horizon

Ottawa Senators swing their axe with opening night on the horizon

On Sunday, the Ottawa Senators assigned seven players to their American Hockey League affiliate in Belleville.

Senators demote Yakemchuk to AHL, place Batherson and Kleven on IR

The Ottawa Senators‘ top prospect won’t crack the opening-night roster after all. Defenceman Carter Yakemchuk was sent down to AHL Belleville on Monday, the team announced. Forward Drake Batherson and defenceman Tyler Kleven were also placed on injured reserve as Ottawa’s opening-night roster takes shape. Yakemchuk, 20, was the seventh-overall pick in the 2024 draft but has yet to make his NHL debut. He was held without a point in the pre-seaso…

Senators cut 7 players on Sunday... but it's not enough.

Around the National Hockey League on Sunday we saw numerous teams make what were the final roster cuts of training camp and the preseason for those teams, but the Ottawa Senators are doing things a little different.While the Senators did announce a number of roster cuts on Sunday, they are still over the roster limit which must be reached by Monday Oct 6th, meaning that there is very likely another move or another roster cut that the Senators ar…