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After getting back from a seven-game road trip, Thursday nightâ€s game against the New York Rangers wasnâ€t exactly the homecoming the Ottawa Senators had in mind. J.T. Miller had three assists as the Rangers defeated the Senators 4–2 at Canadian Tire Centre.

But the bigger loss for Ottawa might be centre Shane Pinto, who suffered a lower-body injury, joining the clubâ€s expanding list of walking wounded. Pinto, Ottawa’s top goal scorer (12), was injured in the first period on what appeared to be an innocuous body check from former Senator Mika Zibanejad.

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Down near the end boards in Ottawa’s end, Pinto tried to jump on a loose puck, but as he looked up ice, he took his eye off the puck and missed it, and it slipped off his stick blade. As he opened up to regroup and try to get his stick back on the puck, thatâ€s when Zibanejad made contact. That left Pinto briefly off balance, and his skate appeared to get jammed into the base of the boards.

Before leaving, Pinto went for a brief skate, trying to test out his lower body injury during a stoppage before deciding he couldn’t continue.

Senators head coach Travis Green, as is customary, said he hoped to know more about Pinto’s prognosis on Friday. When Friday came, all Green would say was that Pinto wouldn’t be available for the next game, scheduled for Saturday night against the St. Louis Blues.

“Heâ€s a big loss,†Green told TSN during their Thursday broadcast.

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After getting Brady Tkachuk back in the lineup last week, after he had missed 20 games with a thumb injury, the Senators were hoping for a run of good luck in the injury department. Instead, Thomas Chabot was re-injured, and Artem Zub and Lars Eller also missed Thursdayâ€s game. All are now listed as day-to-day, though Zub is expected back on Saturday night.

And now Pinto is banged up as well.

As for Thursday’s game, the 4-2 loss to the Blueshirts, Artemi Panarin hit the 900-point mark for his career with a goal and an assist. Drake Batherson and Dylan Cozens had the Senators†goals, and Leevi Meriläinen stopped 23 of 27 shots. Igor Shesterkin was excellent and always seems to have the Senators’ number.

Brady Tkachuk had an assist in the game and moved past Wade Redden on the Senators†all-time scoring list. He is now in fifth place with 411 points.

The Senators are back at it on Saturday at home against the St. Louis Blues at 7:00 p.m.

Steve Warne
The Hockey News – Ottawa

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Whether itâ€s fair or not, Erik Brännström will always be remembered in Ottawa as the guy the Senators got for Mark Stone. It was 2019, and in a deal that former owner Eugene Melnyk said had been planned for some time, Stone was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights. Brännström was Ottawa’s crown jewel in that deal, and GM Pierre Dorion was so excited to acquire the diminutive Swede, he initially called it his proudest day as GM.

History now shows that not only was Brännström not ready to be the impact NHL player Stone was, but he ultimately became a fringe NHL defenceman. He had back-to-back seasons of over 70 games played in Ottawa, but the Senators let him walk last year, and he began bouncing all over the league last season.

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In 2024-25, he got into 28 games with the Vancouver Canucks, and also spent time in the organizations of the Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres. At that stage, the writing was on the wall, so Brännström packed up and signed a three-year deal with Lausanne HC in Switzerlandâ€s top league.

Six years after being seen as the guy who’d soon make Ottawa forget about losing Mark Stone, Brännströmâ€s NHL career appeared over.

But in his first season over there, he’s now writing a nice silver linings playbook. With Lausanne, Brännström is tearing it up the way Dorion once thought he might in Ottawa. In 30 games, he has 13 goals and 25 points, leading all defencemen in both categories. Heâ€s 10th overall in league scoring, right behind a couple of former Senators draft picks.

No, neither of them is named Alex Formenton. The December 1st deadline came and went, and Formenton remains an NHL RFA, so he wonâ€t get an opportunity to play in the NHL this season. The RFA has battled some injuries and has just nine points in 20 Swiss games, which is unlikely to impress anyone on this side of the ocean.

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Brady Tkachuk Gives Montreal Grinch Exactly What He Deserves – Community Post Senators captain Brady Tkachuk had some fun with a Montreal Canadiens fan in warmups on Tuesday night. Given the fan’s costume, the totally insane rendering of Tkachuk, and the absolutely terrible chirp (Tkachuk sounds like Ketchup), the fan got exactly what he deserved.

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We speak of Marcus Sorensen, who has 27 points, and Andre Petersson, who has 25.

Between those two players sits a guy many Sens fans wanted over Brady Tkachuk at the 2018 NHL Draft: Filip Zadina, who has 14 goals and 26 points. Brännström is also two points ahead of another former Senator, Dominik Kubalík, who has 13 goals and 23 points.

Even though the Senators do have some depth issues on the left side of their blue line, GM Steve Staios had clearly seen enough when he let Brannstrom walk into unrestricted free agency in 2024. That was also right around the time Ottawa drafted a bigger defenceman in Carter Yakemchuk in Round 1 and then an angry 6-foot-7 blueliner in Gabriel Elliason.

The Senators have a type, and Brännström, generously listed at 5-foot-10, simply wasnâ€t it.

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It may be his plan B, but itâ€s still nice to see the 26-year-old getting a fresh start and having success.

By Steve Warne
The Hockey News – Ottawa

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Wyatt Johnston continues to make a compelling case to be on our Olympic team.

Johnston recorded his fourth career NHL hat trick, including two power-play goals, as the Dallas Stars dismantled the Senators 6-1 on Sunday night at American Airlines Center. Johnston now has an NHL-leading 12 power-play goals and finished the night with his second four-point game in less than a week.

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Jason Robertson was also rolling for Dallas, scoring the game-winning goal and adding two assists in his 400th career NHL game. Mavrik Bourque and Jamie Benn also scored for the Stars, who are an outrageous 10-1-1 in their last 12 games.

For Ottawa, Jake Sanderson’s goal provided the only run support for Senators goalie Linus Ullmark, who wasn’t their savior, nor did he get much help. Ullmark’s shaky early-season numbers have been improving in the past couple of weeks, but allowing six goals on 26 shots will undo some of those statistical repairs.

But Sens defenders had several instances where they left Dallas forwards open in dangerous spots, serving up high-danger opportunities for one of the hottest teams in hockey. Down 3-1 after 40 minutes, it marked the second consecutive third period where the Sens weren’t very good.

Johnston and Robertson now share the Stars†team lead with 16 goals each, tied for fourth in the NHL. Robertson has points in 10 of his last 11 games, with 13 goals and nine assists, while Johnstonâ€s power-play performance keeps him in the discussion for Canadian international duty this February. Only six Canadian skaters have more points (30) than him.

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“It would be amazing to go,†Johnston told NHL.com after his four-point performance on Wednesday in Edmonton. “For me, itâ€s just trying to do the best I can to help the Stars win, and that will also help my chances of trying to make that team as well. That would be awesome and a huge honour.â€

Dallas backup Casey DeSmith stopped all 15 Sens shots he faced. The result drops Ottawa to 12-9-4, and 3-3 on this road trip, leaving them outside of the Eastern playoff picture and setting up a big game in Montreal on Tuesday.

For the record, the Sens now finish the month at 6-4-3. It’s their first time above .500 for the month since 2016-17, but these past couple of November outings, including Friday’s shaky finish in St. Louis, haven’t exactly set the table for a promising December.

That being said, it is the end of a busy, difficult road trip, which, for all intents and purposes, is now over. The Senators have one more road game, but it’s just up the road in Montreal on Tuesday.

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By Steve Warne
The Hockey News Ottawa

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Former Ottawa Senator Mark Kastelic reminded fans on Saturday night why heâ€s a player most NHL players don’t look forward to tangling with. Now with the Boston Bruins, Kastelic got into a brawl on Saturday night with Detroit Red Wings star defenseman Moritz Seider, and the results were predictable.

This was only Seider’s second NHL fight, and it represented a huge jump in skill and weight class compared to his first career scrap. According to HockeyFights.com, that one was against Nashville Predators’ star forward Filip Forsberg two years ago.

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The incident came in the final seconds of the first period. Kastelic collided hard with Seider in the Detroit corner. The two began with some squawking and shoving, but them things quickly escalated from there.

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Moritz Seider vs Mark Kastelic Nov 29, 2025 Moritz Seider vs Mark Kastelic from the Detroit Red Wings at Boston Bruins game on Nov 29, 2025. via

It was a little surprising to see the Wings’ prized defenseman being allowed to freely square off against one of the leagueâ€s tougher hombres with zero intervention from teammates.

Kastelic, a veteran of 38 pro fights, stands 6â€4†and 234 pounds. Seider, while physically imposing at 6â€2†and 210 pounds, is the smaller man and certainly not known for dropping the gloves. The mismatch was apparent almost immediately. Kastelic landed several powerful right-hand haymakers, leaving Seider on the defensive and ultimately overwhelmed.

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Seider is a summer training partner and close friend of Senators’ star Tim Stützle. Kastelic was drafted by the Senators 125th overall in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. He spent four seasons in the Sens’ organization, two of them in Ottawa. He was dealt two summers ago as part of the deal that saw Linus Ullmark traded by Boston to Ottawa.

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When the Ottawa Senators re-acquired Dennis Gilbert from Philadelphia straight up for Max Guenette earlier this month, it satisfied several needs.

It ended the team’s RFA contract stalemate with Guenette, who has since signed in Philly’s organization. And by adding Gilbert, it also beefed up the left side of Ottawa’s blue line. With Jake Sanderson, Thomas Chabot, and Tyler Kleven, the Senators are in good shape, but the drop-off after those three is steep. So much so that they’ve been using a right-shot defenseman to fill in on the left side.

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With Chabot’s comeback from injury lasting less than one game, he’s now been placed on injured reserve. The Sens’ solution for that has mainly been right-shot defenseman Nikolas Matinpalo, who was expected to skate on the left side again on Sunday in Dallas, just as he did on Friday in St. Louis.

But the Sens have called up Gilbert from AHL Belleville on Saturday, suggesting one of two things:

• Head coach Travis Green wants to get back to having guys play on their natural side, so maybe Gilbert takes Matinpalo’s spot in the bottom pairing.

• Or perhaps Kleven isn’t right after blocking a shot with his hand on Friday. He left the game but quickly returned. As is sometimes the case, perhaps the injury felt worse a day later. So it’s possible Gilbert is up to replace Kleven outright or just act as a seventh-man insurance policy.

Gilbert is coming off a knee injury suffered in a game between Lehigh Valley and Laval on October 29. He left that game after a hit by Xavier Simoneau, who was called for kneeing. When Gilbert was traded to Ottawa, he finally returned to action with Belleville on Nov. 22 and had three assists over the next three games before Saturday’s recall.

In parts of six NHL seasons, Gilbert has appeared in 111 games, scoring three goals and 20 points. Gilbert was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks, 90th overall, in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, and has also played for the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, and Buffalo Sabres.

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The 29-year-old fits nicely with the club’s general desire for size on the blue line, checking in at 6-foot-3, 216 pounds. And he doesn’t mind the odd fight, which satisfies another need in Ottawa – an extra option to take some pressure off Brady Tkachuk. The last thing the Senators want is to see Tkachuk ramming his surgically repaired right fist into someone’s face anytime soon.

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The Ottawa Senators reportedly made a roster move on Friday. According to Postmedia’s Bruce Garrioch, the Senators have placed 26-year-old Swedish winger Olle Lycksell on waivers for the purpose of reassignment. Lycksell was recently placed on injured reserve with a concussion, but now he’s apparently ready to return, and if he clears, he’s likely headed back to Belleville for the second time this season.

Lycksell cleared waivers coming out of training camp but made Ottawa’s roster to open the season. The Sens sent him to Belleville 12 days later (Oct. 17), but brought him back on Oct 21. He’s played just six games in Ottawa this season, scoring one goal, and two games in Belleville, where he’s been held pointless.

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In 51 career NHL games with the Senators and Philadelphia Flyers, Lycksell has tallied two goals and 10 assists. But he’s been an elite AHL player the past three seasons, putting up 128 points in 136 games with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. That intrigued the Senators enough to sign him to a one-year two-way contract on July 1.

With Lycksell ready to play, the Senators had the option on Friday of sending Stephan Halliday back down, a forward who’s waivers-exempt. But after his nice NHL debut on Thursday night in Anaheim, including a fine setup on Shane Pinto’s tying goal, it appears the Sens are keen to book a little more Halliday time until either Ridly Greig or Brady Tkachuk is ready to return.

On that note, Tkachuk hopes to return (and come off IR) within the week. Greig is said to be day-to-day with an undisclosed injury, but with Senators’ head coach Travis Green being so consistently cloak-and-dagger with his roster and/or injury information, who knows?

If he clears waivers, Lycksell is expected to immediately join the AHL’s Belleville Senators. The B-Sens are in Laval this weekend, where they play on Friday night and Saturday afternoon.

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By Steve Warne
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Drake Bathersonâ€s goal with under two minutes to play in regulation gave the Ottawa Senators a 3–2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night. It was a memorable evening for Senators rookie Stephen Halliday, who not only played his first NHL game but also recorded a gorgeous assist on Shane Pintoâ€s game-tying goal.

The Senators got on the board first. Late in the first period, Dylan Cozens sprinted down the left wing and dropped the puck to Nick Jensen, who dropped it to Nick Cousins. Cousins unleashed a slap shot that beat Petr Mrazek to make it 1–0 Ottawa.

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The Senators controlled the play and had the lionâ€s share of the chances in the first and early in the second, but Mrazek was excellent and kept the score close, allowing his teammates to find their legs after playing Boston 24 hours earlier.

The Ducks finally pushed back on a goal by Bennett Senecke after some rough Ottawa defense. Anaheim’s Leo Carlsson broke into the Senators†zone, leading a three-on-three rush. Cozens peeled away to attack Carlsson, who was already covered. Carlsson fed Cutter Gauthier for a 2 on 1 with Sennecke, bearing down on Artem Zub.

Gauthier actually fanned on his shot attempt, but Zub, who was poke checking and backing in too far, allowed Gauthier to regroup and finish the play, passing the puck over to Sennecke who tied the game at 1.

A minute and a half later, the Ducks made it 2–1 when Chris Kreider dished a perfect saucer pass to Mason McTavish, who was sprinting to the far post and redirected the puck past Linus Ullmark.

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But with under a minute left in the period, Shane Pinto scored his 10th of the season to tie the game 2–2. Driving to the net, he was poke-checked by Mrazek, but the puck deflected off Pintoâ€s shin pad and in. He was set up by Stephen Halliday on a perfect pass — Hallidayâ€s first NHL point in his first NHL game.

The Senators had a great chance with under six minutes to play in the third. Claude Giroux had a semi-breakaway, and realized he was about to be caught, so he dropped it back to Michael Amadio who got it to Pinto who was denied by Mrazek.

Finally, with just under two minutes to play, Jake Sandersonâ€s shot from the left point was deflected in by Drake Batherson, and that stood up as the winning goal, despite the Ducks’ best efforts.

They had a couple of great chances at the end, but Ullmark made a tremendous skate save on Sennecke, who was in close. Then Troy Terry looked poised to score the game-tying goal on a cross-ice pass and one-timer, but his stick shaft exploded, denying him what probably would have been an easy equalizer.

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The Sens may gave endured another injury loss on the blue line. Nikolas Matinpalo took a hard hit from Radko Gudas as he was taking a shot and the Sens defenseman slid hard, back first, into the end boards. Head coach Travis Green, as is custom, had no information on the injury after the game.

The Senators now improve to 10-6-4, one point out of first in the Atlantic. They’ll be at San Jose on Saturday afternoon at 7 pm Eastern.

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The Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers have completed a trade, with the Senators sending defenseman Maxence Guenette to the Flyers for defenseman Dennis Gilbert.

Gilbert has one assist in six games with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms this season.

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The 29-year-old has three goals and 20 points in 111 career NHL games over parts of seven seasons, he recorded an assist in four games with the Senators next season.

A third round selection of the Chicago Blackhawks in 2015, Gilbert has 58 points in 194 career AHL games. He will serve as depth for Ottawa as they deal with an injury to Thomas Chabot. He can play a big role for Belleville if he ends up in the AHL.

Guenette was an unsigned RFA when the trade occurred and promptly agreed to a a one-year, two-way contract that pays him $225,000 at the AHL level with the Flyers.

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The 24-year-old had nine goals and 23 points in 58 games for the Belleville Senators last season.

A seventh round selection of the Senators in 2019, Guenette is pointless in eight career AHL games and has 116 points in 236 career AHL games.

The Sainte-Foy, Que., native will serve as depth for the Flyers and should immediately slot into a top four role with the Phantoms.

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OTTAWA — Anton Forsberg made his return to Ottawa a memorable one stopping 17 shots in the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 win over the Senators on Saturday night for his first shutout of the season.

Forsberg, who spent parts of five seasons with the Senators, was playing his first game against his former teammates.

The Kings (10-5-4) are in the midst of a six-game road trip and are a perfect 4-0-0 to this point.

The Senators (9-6-4) wrapped up a four-game homestand (2-1-1) before heading out on a seven-game road trip.

The Kings took a 1-0 lead at 9:19 of the first period after Alex Laferriere had a perfect tip out front to beat Senators netminder Linus Ullmark.

Ottawa pressed hard in the third but was unable to get the equalizer.

Ullmark, who made 17 saves, came into the game having never lost against the Kings.

The Senators had two power plays in the first and failed to generate a shot on either opportunity.

Ottawaâ€s Jordan Spence, acquired via trade at the draft, played his first game against his former club. He had a couple good chances, but like the rest of his teammates failed to beat Forsberg.

Kings: Did a great job of keeping the Senators to the outside and kept scoring chances to a minimum.

Senators: Struggled to generate chances against the Kings’ defensive structure.

With the win the Kings have a 10-game road point streak (8-0-2).

With the Kings leading 1-0, Forsberg made a great save on Ridly Greig from in close midway through the third.

Kings: Visit the Washington Capitals on Monday.

Senators: Visit the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday.

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When Ottawa-born Donovan Sebrango joined the Senators, he was part of the Alex DeBrincat deal with the Detroit Red Wings. At the time, he was exiting Detroit, a team in the middle of the second-longest NHL playoff drought, to join Ottawa, a club in the middle of the third-longest NHL playoff drought.

You might assume that neither roster, in those circumstances, should have been carved in stone; that an opportunity might have been there for a useful player.

But Sebrango never caught on as a full-time player in either market. As he left Detroit, he hadn’t seen any NHL action in Motown after four years with the club. As for the Senators, they immediately put him in Belleville and he even spent some time in the ECHL.

They did bring him up to Ottawa twice last season and then twice last month due to the preseason injury to Tyler Kleven. When Kleven got healthy, the Sens tried to send Sebrango back down to Belleville, but he was claimed on waivers by the Florida Panthers.

At his press conference on Monday, when asked about the left side of his blue line, Staios admitted that losing Sebrango hurt the Sens’ depth in that area.

Now, since the move to Sunrise, Sebrango has found more work with the defending two-time Stanley Cup champions than he did in Ottawa and Detroit combined.

Not only did Sebrango play in his fifth game in a row for the Panthers on Monday night, but he also registered two assists in the game, including his first NHL point as Florida won 3-2 in Las Vegas.

“Yeah, I mean, it’s always fun to get points,” Sebrango told the media after the game. “That’s not why they brought me in, but it’s always fun to get a couple of points, and your first ones you always remember.”

Even in his short time in Ottawa, it was very clear that Sebrango is tight with his mom, Kim.

So after he got his first NHL point, it’s not hard to guess who he texted first.

“She said she was so proud of me,” Sebrango said. “And I want to make her proud. And that means the world to hear from her. But I mean, that was for her tonight.”

But Sebrango has other admirers in Florida, where he seems to be fitting right in. He’s played the last five games for the Panthers, averaging 14 minutes a night, and setting up shop alongside Jeff Petry, who’s closing in on 1000 NHL games (997).

“I think (Sebrango) has played the same game (every night),” head coach Paul Maurice told the media. “And that’s a really impressive thing because he doesn’t have a lot of NHL experience. He’s still a young man, but he has been very, very consistent in his style of game and what we expect from him. And that is highly unusual in a young player, especially on defense.

“We play a different game than he’s been experiencing. So we’re really impressed with his composure in the game, and we like his bite. You know, he didn’t wait a long time for the first fight.

“We like that a lot.”

This shouldn’t be read as a Sens tale of the one that got away, which all too often haunts the fan base. For one, it’s far too early for any such declaration. Secondly, even if Sebrango ends up as a full-timer in Florida or spends the next decade in the NHL, this is merely the kind of thing that can happen to good teams when they don’t have enough room on the roster for everyone. He was never going to rank ahead of Jake Sanderson, Thomas Chabot, or Tyler Kleven.

This is more a story of a young man who’s worked hard and honestly for a long time, just waiting for an opportunity like this to finally come his way. Even if Florida doesn’t bring Sebrango back next season, every game he plays now for the champions only serves to improve his resume.

And how do you not tip your cap to a story like that?

By Steve Warne
The Hockey News Ottawa

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