{"id":913553,"date":"2026-11-11T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913553\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:20:08","slug":"jakob-chychrun-hit-of-the-year-candidate-appears-to-knock-out-senators-nick-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913553\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakob Chychrun hit-of-the-year candidate appears to knock out Senators\u2019 Nick Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jakob Chychrun<\/a> may not be one of the Capitals\u2019 most notorious hitters, but he doled out a momentum-changing hit in Tuesday\u2019s game against the Ottawa Senators<\/a><\/p>\n

With just over three minutes left in regulation, Chychrun trucked Senators forward Nick Cousins<\/a> as he tried to collect the puck along the boards.<\/p>\n

Jakob Chychrun\u2019s hit on Nick Cousins<\/p>\n

The hit appeared to immediately knock out Cousins, whose body hit the glass before crashing onto the ice. He remained down while receiving medical attention.<\/p>\n

Cousins needed help from several teammates to get off the ice, still visibly woozy, while a member of Ottawa\u2019s medical staff worked to stem the bleeding from his face. He did not return to the game.<\/p>\n

Officials initially assessed Chychrun a five-minute major for the hit. Upon further review, however, they ruled there was no penalty on the play, much to the dismay of Senators fans.<\/p>\n

Chychrun played two seasons for the Senators before they traded him to the Capitals in 2024, though his tenure did not overlap with Cousins\u2019.<\/p>\n

Senators head coach Travis Green later offered an update on Cousins\u2019 status.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not doing great,\u201d Green said postgame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Green also disputed the officials\u2019 decision not to award Ottawa a power play.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t usually see it where it goes from a major to no penalty, but I thought it was a head shot to a player that wasn\u2019t ready for it,\u201d he said, \u201cThey must have saw it different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senators players weren\u2019t any more thrilled with the hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI should be careful what I say,\u201d said<\/a> forward Ridly Greig<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t like seeing that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everybody hates these scenes in hockey, any sport,\u201d added<\/a> Thomas Chabot. \u201cObviously you\u2019re aware it\u2019s part of the game, but it\u2019s a lot more than the game of hockey and it sucks seeing him like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hayden Hodgson praised Cousins as a teammate, noting how the hit rattled the bench.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a heart-and-soul guy, he\u2019s an unbelievable teammate, and it just took the life out of us,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cIt sucks to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the game still at five-on-five, Fabian Zetterlund<\/a> went to the box late in the period for sending the puck over the glass, putting the Capitals on the power play. Cole Hutson<\/a> scored the overtime game-winning goal just seconds after Zetterlund\u2019s penalty expired.<\/p>\n

Chychrun\u2019s hit comes three days after teammate Tom Wilson<\/a> injured forward Sandis Vilmanis<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s game against the Florida Panthers<\/a>. Wilson was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct, sending him to the showers early, but did not face supplemental discipline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jakob Chychrun may not be one of the Capitals\u2019 most notorious hitters, but he doled out a momentum-changing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[315154,10156,146305,385,231743,1319,99,1867,1791,381573],"class_list":["post-913553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-big-hit","tag-injury","tag-jakob-chychrun","tag-nhl","tag-nick-cousins","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-sports","tag-top","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washington-capitals-at-ottawa-senators-10-nov-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913553","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=913553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}