How acquired: Selected with No. 7 pick in 2024 NHL Draft<\/p>\n
2024-25 season: Calgary (WHL): 56 GP, 17-32-49<\/p>\n
Yakemchuk made a solid bid to make the Senators roster out of training camp last season with five points (two goals, three assists) in three preseason games before the decision was made to return him to Calgary of the Western Hockey League.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll be provided every opportunity to stick with Ottawa this season, especially after the improvements he\u2019s made in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the puck\u2019s on \u2018Yak\u2019s\u2019 stick, there\u2019s no question what he can do and I think that\u2019s always going to be a strength, so we were trying to sure up the other areas of his game and make sure he\u2019s able to compete in the corners, defensively, off the rush, improve his feet and just gap control, things like that, where he\u2019s going to have to face some pretty quick guys at the next level,\u201d Senators amateur scout Andrew Gordon said. \u201cWe think he\u2019s more ready for that now than he was a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yakemchuk has 180 points (70 goals, 110 assists) in 245 career WHL games, including a career-high 71 points (30 goals, 41 assists) in 66 games in 2023-24.<\/p>\n
Projected NHL arrival: This season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How acquired: Selected with No. 7 pick in 2024 NHL Draft 2024-25 season: Calgary (WHL): 56 GP, 17-32-49…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-82816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82816","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=82816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}