The Anaheim Ducks announced this week that prospects Beckett Sennecke and Thomas Suchanek will both be out long-term with separate injuries.

Sennecke, the Ducks’ third overall pick at this year’s NHL Entry Draft, suffered a fractured foot during offseason training and will miss approximately six-to-eight weeks.

Other than making headlines during the Draft for his reaction to being selected by the Ducks, Sennecke played a pivotal role with the Ontario Hockey League’s Oshawa Generals, scoring 27 goals and 68 points throughout the regular season and an additional 10 goals and 23 points during the playoffs while helping them reach the OHL finals.

Meanwhile, Suchanek, an undrafted goaltender who signed an entry-level deal with the Ducks in March, has undergone a successful surgery to repair his ACL and will be out for approximately six-to-eight months.

Last season, Suchanek spent the entire season with the Ducks’ American Hockey League affiliate, the San Diego Gulls, with a record of 14-10-5 and a .910 save percentage. In addition to his AHL record, the 21-year-old also put up a record of 3-5-0 with the ECHL’s Tulsa Oilers.

The goaltender came to North America from Czechia in 2021, where he played two seasons with the Tri-City Americans of the Western Hockey League. Additionally, his skills helped lead the Czechs to a bronze medal at the 2022 World Juniors, where Suchanek’s talents became recognized beyond the WHL.

The Ottawa Senators have signed two NHL veterans, defenceman Calen Addison and forward Kikolay Kulemin, to a professional tryout agreement ahead of the team’s 2024 training camp.

Addison was originally the 53rd overall pick by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2018 NHL draft.

Although he never donned the iconic black and yellow Penguins jersey, he was traded to the Minnesota Wild in February 2020, where his NHL career truly began.

After spending two years between the Wild and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Iowa Wild, Addison secured a full-time roster spot in 2022-23, scoring three goals and 29 points.

This past season, the Wild opted to deal Addison after 12 games to the San Jose Sharks. Despite being 10 games shy of an 82-game NHL season, the defenceman’s production took a dive, putting up just one goal and 17 points between the Wild and Sharks last season.

Addison became a restricted free agent at the end of the 2023-24 campaign. However, the Sharks did not give him a qualifying offer, and no other team gave him an opportunity for a standard contract, so he will have to test his skills now with the Senators during training camp.

The Brandon, Man. native, known for his contributions to the power play, may find a niche in the Senators’ lineup. As Daily Faceoff‘s Scott Maxwell writes, Addison may need to find his fit with a team that already has the talents of Thomas Chabot and Jake Sanderson. However, there is still a certain depth beyond the Senators’ top four that needs some tweaking, and Addison’s skills could be the answer.

Kulemin has stepped out of the NHL spotlight for six years now, but he brings a decade of NHL experience. Originally selected 44th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2006 NHL Draft, Kulemin stepped into a fun-time role during his inaugural 2008-09 season with the Leafs, scoring 15 goals and 31 points.

Kulemin’s most outstanding season came in 2010-11 when he notched 30 goals and 57 points. After six seasons with the Leafs, Kulemin signed as a free agent with the New York Islanders in 2014. The forward remained in New York for four seasons before trading in his NHL career for some time in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), signing as a free agent with Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2018.

The 38-year-old has maintained a comfortable production rate in the KHL, but the transition back to the NHL is still rather surprising.

Besides the news of Addison and Kulemin, the Senators made some moves over the summer by acquiring Linus Ullmark and Nick Jensen and making the additional signings of Noah Gregor, Michael Amadio, and Nick Cousins.