{"id":346883,"date":"2025-12-15T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:37:12","slug":"evening-notes-yakemchuk-dorofeyev-marchment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346883\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Yakemchuk, Dorofeyev, Marchment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, Senators top prospect Carter Yakemchuk<\/a> left mid-game in the AHL due to injury, as reported by Alex Adams of Sportsnet<\/a>, who also provided the video clip. The defenseman, coming around the corner in his own end, made a routine pass to start the breakout when Bridgeport enforcer Hunter Drew<\/a> finished a hard check. Such an impact sent Yakemchuk spilling awkwardly into the boards, and he did not return.<\/p>\n

Drafted by Ottawa seventh overall in 2024, the 6\u20193\u201d defenseman is the team\u2019s top prospect, posting an impressive 18 points in 27 games for Belleville in his first professional season. On the other hand, Drew, 27, was a sixth round selection by Anaheim in 2018, appearing in two NHL games in 2021-22, but since then has been a full-time AHLer, even switching from a defenseman to a forward as a professional. Drew regularly surpasses the 100+ annual penalty minute mark, and after taking out a young star, naturally, his actions drew the ire of Belleville.<\/p>\n

Further details have not been confirmed on Yakemchuk\u2019s status, but the Alberta native figures to be a huge part of Ottawa\u2019s future. It was already noted in late November<\/a> that he is likely untouchable in trade discussions, and hopefully as long as he is able to avoid serious injury, the 20-year-old could soon earn a call up and provide a needed boost to the Sens\u2019 right side defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elsewhere across the league:<\/p>\n

Vegas forward Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> left last night\u2019s win over Columbus, not returning for the third period, as reported by Danny Webster of the Las Vegas Review-Journal (Twitter link)<\/a>. The 25-year-old is one of the game\u2019s more unsung top scorers, since breaking out last season with 35 goals. He has maintained such levels so far this year with 13 in 31 games, doing all of it at an absurd value, $1.8MM, with pending RFA status at season\u2019s end. No additional updates on Dorofeyev have come yet, with the Knights out of action until next Wednesday, but if he is set to miss time, the winger\u2019s elite power play production will especially be missed. Eight of his 13 goals have been buried on the man advantage.\u00a0
\nAhead of tonight\u2019s game versus Buffalo, the Seattle Kraken announced that<\/a> forward Mason Marchment<\/a> will not play, however it is noted as due to illness, rather than injury. The 30-year-old was an intriguing cap-dump addition by Seattle last summer given his production with Dallas, but the scoring touch has fallen off a bit since then. Marchment found the back of the net twice on Friday, but prior to that, he had just two goals in 26 games. The power forward is drawing trade interest as a pending UFA, but with a $4.5MM cap hit and a modified no trade clause, such a move may require creativity. In Marchment\u2019s absence, 22-year-old Jacob Melanson<\/a> enters the lineup for his second NHL game. Melanson was drafted in the fifth round by Seattle and projects as a future bottom six winger.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, Senators top prospect Carter Yakemchuk left mid-game in the AHL due to injury, as reported by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[6066,49,48,25259,5718,135478,448,744,147700,768,82,767],"class_list":["post-346883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carter-yakemchuk","tag-injury","tag-mason-marchment","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}