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Former Red Wings draft pick Donovan Sebrango signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.

Sebrango, 23, posted eight goals and 20 points in 50 games with the AHL’s Belleville Senators last season and dressed in two games with the NHL club. 

Ottawa acquired Sebrango in 2023 in a trade with the Red Wings and he made his NHL debut last season.

Sebrango was a third-round pick the Red Wings in the 2020 NHL Draft.

Marner, Eichel to start on same line in preseason

Vegas Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy told nhl.com that Jack Eichel and Mitch Marner will play together at times during the preseason, but whether they stay together will depend on their chemistry.

“They will have time together [but] whether they have chemistry, that’s to be determined,” Cassidy said. “Sometimes on paper, you look at chemistry and think it’s going to work and it doesn’t. And sometimes other lines just come together naturally. So that, to me, is a little bit unpredictable. There’s always cues that you think, ‘It will work.’ But who knows?”

Vegas acquired Marner in a sign-in-trade deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs this summer. Cassidy believes that the two players may have to play on separate lines because they are similar type of players.

“Those guys both like to hang on to the puck,” Cassidy said. “If they’re together, who’s the best shooter on that line? So that could change. I think it’s pairs first, and then the threesome. That’s how I’ll look at it.”

Veteran Scandella announces retirement

Veteran Scandella anounced his retirement on Thursday after not playing professionally last season. 

Scandella, 35, last played with the St. Louis Blues during the 2023-24 campaign, recording two goals and eight points in 65 games while averaging 12:28 of ice time. He spent that year playing out the last of a four-year, $13.1 million deal signed in April of 2020. 

The 6-foot-3 blueliner’s best season came during the 2014-15 campaign, registering 11 goals and 23 points in 64 games with the Minnesota Wild.

He has 51 goals and 170 points in 784 career games split between the Wild, Blues, Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens.

Kraken make deal with Flyers

The Seattle Kraken sent forward Tucker Robinson to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for forward J.R. Avon, the teams announced on Thursday.

Robertson, 22, was selected by the Kraken in the fourth round (123rd overall) in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.

In 38 games with the AHL’s Coachella Valley Firebirds last season, Robertson scored four goals and totaled nine points.

Avon, 22, joined the Flyers’ organization as an undrafted free agent in 2021.

The Peterborough, Ont. native has 16 goals and 35 points in 125 games with the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms over the last two seasons.

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