SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced at the moment that Belleville Senators ahead Jan Jeník has been chosen because the Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Participant of the Week for the interval ending March 16, 2025.
Jeník posted eight factors and a plus-6 score in two video games final week, main the Senators to a pair of much-needed victories of their pursuit of a berth within the Calder Cup Playoffs.
With Belleville internet hosting Bridgeport for a weekend collection at CAA Area, Jeník matched a franchise document by recording 5 assists in a 6-1 win on Friday night time. Then on Saturday, he scored the game-winning objective, dished out two extra assists and registered a game-high 5 photographs on objective in one other 6-1 Senators victory as Belleville improved to 8-0-1-0 in its final 9 dwelling contests.
A fifth-year professional, Jeník has totaled 9 objectives and 14 assists for 23 factors in 38 video games for Belleville this season, and has additionally appeared in two video games with the guardian Ottawa Senators. The 24-year-old native of Nymburk, Czechia, was a third-round choice by Arizona within the 2018 NHL Draft and was acquired by Ottawa in a commerce with Utah on July 3, 2024.
In 203 profession AHL video games with Belleville and Tucson, Jeník has recorded 55 objectives and 88 assists for 143 factors. He scored a objective in every of his first two profession NHL video games with the Coyotes in 2021, and has compiled 4 objectives and two assists in 24 profession NHL outings with Arizona and Ottawa.
