After a pre-season that saw this year’s seventh-overall pick score two goals and notch seven points in four exhibition games, defenceman Carter Yakemchuk is returning to the Western Hockey League.
“A very long, thoughtful process within the whole organization. We went back and forth on that a lot,” Senators head coach Travis Green said of the decision for Yakemchuk to return to the Calgary Hitmen.
The 19-year-old blueliner lead all WHL defencemen with 30 goals in the 2023-24 season and also had a career-high 71 points in 66 games with the Hitmen. “If you go to the history of the game, it’s a hard league for young defencemen,” Green said. “You have to make hard decisions sometimes. It came back to what’s best for him.”
Both of Yakemchuk’s goals in the pre-season were game winners, including one in overtime in his first pre-season game. WithThe Senators feel Yakemchuk has learned a lot in a short period of time at training camp and hope he’ll build on his experience back in junior hockey.
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