{"id":461562,"date":"2025-01-26T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=461562"},"modified":"2025-01-26T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:51:03","slug":"ottawa-senators-injury-upfront-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/26\/ottawa-senators-injury-upfront-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators Have an Injury Upfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">It appears as though the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/25\/nhl-predictions-jan-25-toronto-maple-leafs-vs-ottawa-senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> will be without one of their effective depth forwards. Following a collision with a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/22\/toronto-maple-leafs-forward-will-not-return\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leaf<\/a> making his NHL debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/q\/quillja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Quillan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cousini01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Cousins<\/a> looks to miss some time with what looked like a left-knee injury. Further updates will be available once more is known, but at this time there are no specifics for his return timetable.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cousins stays down after a hard knee-on-knee collision. Meat head Reaves tries to go after him while he&#39;s down. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoSensGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoSensGo<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9oArDCTgP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/q9oArDCTgP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Everyday Sens (@EverydaySens) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EverydaySens\/status\/1883310920048500874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Nick Cousins Will Miss Time with Lower-Body Injury<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cousins came over in the offseason, after being a member of the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers last year. He played in the Panthers top six at times, but following trade deadline lineup bolstering, he never really got a regular shift come playoff time. Still, that was invaluable experience for the traveled Cousins and also, an attribute that would benefit the inexperienced Senators group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year in Ottawa, he has done well in his roll. He can play throughout the lineup. Furthermore, he can be relied upon for important situations, even if he hasn\u2019t been on the ice for a while. He\u2019s always the next man on deck. Collectively this year, he has five goals and eight assists in 47 games played, skating just under 12 minutes a night. He&#8217;s a little off some of his better seasons, where he&#8217;s been around 25 points in over 13 minutes of action per game. The Sens will miss his services, however, they will have suitable replacements.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How Will the Sens Cope?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staiost01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Staios<\/a> managing the front office, the team has been more accountable. One of the areas of improvement for the Sens is the depth at the forward position. When someone goes down, like Cousins now, a more than capable recruit fills the void. After not starting 2024-25 with the big club, since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/ostapza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zack Ostapchuk<\/a> got into the Sens lineup at the end of October, he hasn\u2019t looked back. He has played in 35 games thus far. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/highmma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Highmore<\/a> is a recent callup and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perroda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Perron<\/a> is just back from injury. Therefore, the Sens have plenty of capable help, when someone like Cousins goes down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much of a word on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/norrijo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joshua Norris<\/a>, since he was injured Tuesday versus the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a>. It was an upper-body injury, but his timetable remains unknown. In saying that, it is not expected to be long term.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Dennis Schneidler-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as though the Ottawa Senators will be without one of their effective depth forwards. Following a collision with a Toronto Maple Leaf making his NHL debut, Jacob Quillan, Nick Cousins looks to miss some time with what looked like a left-knee injury. Further updates will be available once more is known, but at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":461565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[602,5755],"class_list":["post-461562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senators","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-nick-cousins","tag-ottawa-senators-news"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461566,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461562\/revisions\/461566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}