The Senators practice on Thursday at Bell Sensplex had a few new faces. The Senators recalled Carter Yakemchuk, Arthur Kaliyev, Tyler Boucher, and Oskar Pettersson from Belleville to have a full group of skaters to run practice, which lasted just over an hour and featured many scrimmage-type drills.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great, good day, hard day for our group, but it was a real good practice,\u201d said Travis Green afterwards. \u201cThought the guys really worked their tails off and bought into what we\u2019re trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the past few days we\u2019re just trying to get our legs going again, get back to game intensity, especially today was a hard one, but we needed that as well,\u201d said Jordan Spence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think [the call-ups] makes it way easier, the past two days we only had, what, nine forwards and five [defence], when we\u2019re doing the reps it\u2019s a lot harder. But obviously the guys coming in today made it a little easier, but at the same time, we\u2019re trying to keep it fast paced, so it\u2019s hard regardless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the four call-ups, just Kaliyev (two) has played NHL games this season, which made the practice an opportunity for the AHLers to measure themselves against the big squad. It also served as an opportunity for the coaching staff and management to keep some close tabs on players that could serve as call-ups later in the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaven\u2019t seen a guy like Pettersson or Boucher, obviously we know Kaliyev, he\u2019s having a good year down there,\u201d said Green.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk about guys that are having success. \u2018Yak\u2019, there\u2019s always lots of talk about him. Guys like Pettersson and Boucher, no one talks about them outside of our room, but we just want to get some eyes on them, and those are obviously a couple of guys that we think in a certain spot we can call up, and it was good to see them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it was pretty cool,\u201d said Yakemchuk. \u201cObviously it was a long practice, it was pretty hard, but it was pretty cool\u2026 I think all four of us were pretty excited to come and get a skate in.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a week still remaining until the Senators play again, Thursday served as a major ramp-up in terms of intensity. \u201cAll the drills we\u2019re doing right now is kind of the drills that we we did in training camp,\u201d said Spence.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I guess it\u2019s like the same thing, coming into camp, getting ready for a game. We\u2019ve got to get our game legs back again, our intensity, our physicality, all that stuff, so I think it\u2019s good to kind of get these three practices into that momentum, and hopefully we can carry on with the practices coming along.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senators practice on Thursday at Bell Sensplex had a few new faces. The Senators recalled Carter Yakemchuk,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-486216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486216","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=486216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}