Ice Chips: Senators' Tkachuk, Norris, Pinto out vs. Jets
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Ottawa Senators
Forwards Brady Tkachuk, Josh Norris and Shane Pinto will not play in tonight's game against the Winnipeg Jets.
All three players skated during the team's optional skate this morning.
Tkachuk suffered a lower-body injury during the 4 Nations Face-off while playing for the United States and missed Saturday's game against the Montreal Canadiens.
Tkachuk participated in one line rush at Tuesday's practice but left afterwards to be cautious. He has 21 goals and 44 points in 56 games this season.
Norris last played on Feb. 3 and has been sidelined with an upper-body injury. He was in a regular jersey at Tuesday's practice.
Pinto was in a non-contact jersey on Tuesday and has missed the past three games with an upper-body injury, last suiting up on Feb. 4.
Goaltender Linus Ullmark will get the start in net. The 31-year-old is 12-10-2 this season with a .910 save percentage and 2.64 goals-against average in 26 appearances.
The Senators recalled forward Angus Crookshank and Jan Jenik from AHL Belleville Wednesday morning.
Crookshank, 25, has 18 goals and 33 points in 48 games with Belleville this season. He made his NHL debut in 2023-24, scoring two goals and one assist in 13 games with Ottawa.
Jenik has seven goals and 13 points in 30 AHL games. The 24-year-old appeared in one game with Ottawa this season but did not record a point.
The Senators look to bounce back from Saturday's 5-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens while the Jets are riding a 10-game winning streak.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Forward Max Pacioretty is on the ice ahead of practice this afternoon after missing the last three games with an injury.
Pacioretty suffered an undisclosed injury in last Wednesday's practice and did not play last night in Boston.
With the Maple Leafs off until Friday, there are a number of players not at practice today, including Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, William Nylander (undisclosed), Chris Tanev (upper body), Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Jake McCabe and Morgan Rielly, per TSN's Mark Masters.
Masters also notes that Calle Jarnkrok was skating as a defenceman at practice.
The Maple Leafs are in the midst of a three-game road trip with a game against the New York Rangers on Friday and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.
Leafs lines at practice:
McMann - Tavares - Holmberg
Knies - Domi - Robertson
Lorentz Kampf Reaves
Pacioretty - Dewar - Steeves
Benoit - Timmins
Jarnkrok - Myers
Stolarz & Woll
Columbus Blue Jackets
Forward Cayden Lindstrom was on the ice at the end of the Blue Jackets' optional skate today as he continues to recover from back surgery.
Lindstrom, who was drafted fourth overall by Columbus in June, has not played a game this season dealing with a nagging back injury dating back to the 2023-24 that required surgery in November.
In 32 games last season with the WHL's Medicine Hat Tigers, the 19-year-old had 27 goals and 46 points.
Seattle Kraken
The Kraken have reassigned forward Mitchell Stephens to the AHL's Coachella Valley Firebirds.
Stephens, 28, has split the season between Seattle and Coachella Valley. In the NHL, he has one goal and three points in 28 games. With the Firebirds, he has four goals and eight points in 18 games.
A second-round pick (33rd overall) by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2015, he won the Stanley Cup with the team in 2020.
The Peterborough, Ont., native has appeared in 123 career NHL games, scoring six goals with 19 points, split between the Lightning, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens and Kraken.