Winnipeg Jets coach Scott Arniel was taken aback when asked a question by a reporter after Tuesday’s 4-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings. Jacob Stoller tells us why.
OTTAWA — A player’s impact isn’t solely based on their talent or scoring output. Team success comes when the right players are slotted in the right roles.
Nick Jensen has been an essential addition to the Ottawa Senators‘ blue line this season as a veteran partner for Thomas Chabot. But he’s been banged up since January and missed four games in March with a lower-body injury.
In Tuesday’s 5-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres, which gave the Sabres a four-game season sweep of the Senators, Jensen was clearly less than 100 per cent. With Brady Tkachuk also out of the lineup with an upper-body injury, the holes were hard to overcome.
“It’s a very day-to-day thing. For me, we’re assessing it on a daily basis,” Jensen said of his injury last week. “I found myself at a point where it was getting hard to even finish a game, so we had to take another step to try to fix that, like I did a few months ago.”
Really good teams rely on an efficacious top-four defence. Ottawa has a top pairing of Jake Sanderson and Artem Zub that has dominated possession and shot share since the calendar flipped to 2025, but the Jensen-Chabot pair has not kept up.
|
|
CF% |
xGF% |
Goal differential |
|
Chabot-Jensen before Jan. 1* |
54.57 |
54.40 |
+10 |
|
Chabot-Jensen since Jan. 1 |
49.76 |
43.90 |
-5 |
|
Sanderson-Zub before Jan. 1 |
51.91 |
53.70 |
-6 |
|
Sanderson-Zub since Jan. 1* |
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