{"id":296481,"date":"2025-11-20T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:33:09","slug":"east-notes-tkachuk-eller-rempe-dowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296481\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Tkachuk, Eller, Rempe, Dowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senators haven\u2019t had captain Brady Tkachuk<\/a> available for most of the season as he has missed the last 16 games with a thumb injury.\u00a0 The team has fared relatively well in his absence, compiling an 8-4-4 record without him but it\u2019s fair to say that they\u2019re still missing their captain.\u00a0 The good news for the Sens is that he might not be out much longer.\u00a0 On his latest Wingmen podcast (audio link<\/a>), Tkachuk indicated that he\u2019s hoping to return around Thanksgiving.\u00a0 When he underwent surgery in mid-October, the recovery timeline was six to seven weeks so returning next week would fall within that range.\u00a0 Tkachuk had 55 points in 72 games last season and assuming there are no late setbacks, he\u2019ll soon give a big boost to an Ottawa attack that enters the night around the middle of the pack offensively, sitting 13th in goals scored.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the East:<\/p>\n

Still with the Senators, center Lars Eller<\/a> won\u2019t play on Thursday due to an undisclosed injury, notes Postmedia\u2019s Bruce Garrioch (Twitter link<\/a>).\u00a0 The 36-year-old has been a regular in Ottawa\u2019s bottom six this season, picking up two goals and four assists in 19 games while logging a little more than 13 minutes a game of playing time.\u00a0 There\u2019s no word yet on how long he might be out for.
\nRangers winger Matt Rempe<\/a> has resumed skating as he works his way back from an upper-body injury, mentions Mollie Walker of the New York Post (Twitter link<\/a>). Head coach Mike Sullivan noted that while there\u2019s no timetable for his return, he\u2019s up to skating three days on, one day off which is a promising sign.\u00a0 Rempe has a goal, nine penalty minutes, and 30 hits in nine outings so far this season while getting a bit more ice time under Sullivan, logging nearly 10 minutes a night.
\nCapitals center Nic Dowd<\/a> missed tonight\u2019s game against Edmonton due to an upper-body injury, relays NHL.com\u2019s Tom Gulitti (Twitter link<\/a>). The 35-year-old is in the first season of a two-year, $6MM deal but has struggled offensively.\u00a0 After notching double-digit goals in each of the last five years, Dowd has just one through his first 19 outings.\u00a0 Bailey Johnson of The Washington Post adds (Twitter link<\/a>) that the middleman won\u2019t accompany the team to Montreal for their game on Thursday and will be evaluated further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senators haven\u2019t had captain Brady Tkachuk available for most of the season as he has missed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,48991,169984,131788,3617,575,169985,6597,85,4791],"class_list":["post-296481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brady-tkachuk","tag-lars-eller","tag-matt-rempe","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-nic-dowd","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-sports","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}