{"id":615942,"date":"2026-04-30T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:42:15","slug":"nick-jensen-is-reportedly-unlikely-to-re-sign-with-ottawa-senators-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615942\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Jensen is reportedly unlikely to re-sign with Ottawa Senators this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Jensen<\/a> is set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer.<\/p>\n

According to the Ottawa Citizen\u2019s Bruce Garrioch<\/a>, the 35-year-old defenseman is not expected to re-sign with the Ottawa Senators<\/a>. The 2025-26 season was the final year on the three-year, $12.15 million ($4.05M AAV) contract extension that Jensen signed with the Washington Capitals<\/a> during the 2022-23 campaign.<\/p>\n

Jensen saw what could be his final season in Ottawa end early when he underwent surgery to repair a torn meniscus in March. He has played 132 games for the Senators over the past two seasons after they acquired him and a 2026 third-round draft pick from the Capitals in July of 2024, sending star blueliner Jakob Chychrun<\/a> the other direction.<\/p>\n

The Senators, recently swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, expect to give highly-touted prospect defender Carter Yakemchuk<\/a> a full-time role on their defense next season. With Yakemchuk, Artem Zub<\/a>, and Jordan Spence<\/a> occupying the top-three slots on the right side of the team\u2019s backend, there is likely no longer room for Jensen in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Jensen saw his role diminish during the 2025-26 season, even sitting out as a healthy scratch<\/a>. He saw his average ice time slashed by over three minutes, playing 17:00 per game, just a year after he averaged over 20 minutes per game (20:13) for the third time in his career.<\/p>\n

In 61 games, Jensen recorded 17 points (4g, 13a). With the veteran rearguard\u00a0on the ice at five-on-five, the Senators saw 49.2 percent of shot attempts, 51.3 percent of expected goals, 51.5 percent of scoring chances, and 50.1 percent of high-danger chances.<\/p>\n

While the Capitals are seeking some help on the right side of their defense this summer<\/a>, Jensen is likely a little older than the type of player they plan to target. However, as a cheaper depth option on a short-term contract, he could provide the team with a stopgap until Rasmus Sandin<\/a> is ready to return from his offseason ACL surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Jensen is set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer. According to the Ottawa Citizen\u2019s Bruce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-615942","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\/615942","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=615942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}