The LA Kings have acquired forward Jan Jen\u00edk from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for defenseman Samuel Bolduc.<\/p>\n
Jen\u00edk, 25, has played in 41 games for the Belleville Senators in the American Hockey League (AHL) this season, scoring nine goals and 17 points (9-8=17). The 6-1, 205-pound forward has totaled 166 career points (67-99=166) in 258 regular-season games played across parts of six seasons in the AHL with the Senators and Tucson Roadrunners. Jen\u00edk\u2019s best professional season came in 2021-22 as a member of the Roadrunners, where he posted career-highs in goals (17), assists (30), and points (17-30=47) in 51 games played. Jen\u00edk has also added three points (1-2=3) in five career Calder Cup Playoff contests.<\/p>\n
Drafted by the Arizona Coyotes in the third round (65th overall) of the 2018 NHL Draft, Jen\u00edk has skated in 24 career NHL games as a member of the Coyotes (2020-24) and Ottawa Senators (2024-25), scoring four goals and recording six career points (4-2=6). Prior to his professional debut, Jen\u00edk played parts of two campaigns with the Hamilton Bulldogs in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), where he scored 35 goals and 86 points (35-51=85) in 54 games played for Hamilton in 2018-19 and 2019-20.<\/p>\n
A native of Nymburk, Czechia, the forward represented his native country in the 2018 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) U-18 World Junior Championship, where he recorded six assists and was named as a Top Three Player on his team. Jen\u00edk also represented Czechia in both the 2019 and 2020 IIHF U-20 World Junior Championships, where he scored two goals and five points (2-3=5) across six total games played at the two tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA Kings have acquired forward Jan Jen\u00edk from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for defenseman Samuel Bolduc.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-520782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}