As the Senators prepared for a visit from the Calgary Flames on Monday night, both Artem Zub and Zack MacEwen were absent ... the last time Zub got hurt. Thomas Chabot is with Jacob Bernard ...
Not ideal. You certainly don't want Tkachuk to increase his fighting, and you probably don't want to add too many more games for MacEwen. Enter Zack Ostapchuk, who made Team Canada's World Junior ...
By process of elimination, that left only Zack Ostapchuk and Zack MacEwen as the 12th and 13th forwards. Ostapchuk participated in Monday's practice five hours before final rosters had to be in.