The Senators have loaned defenseman Hoyt Stanley to Belleville, their AHL affiliate, per Pro Hockey Rumors. The 21-year-old is in the first year of a three-year contract signed this spring with an average annual value of $1.075 million. Stanley had made the team's initial 23-man roster during training camp.
Meanwhile, Ottawa has received positive news on the injury front. Defenseman Jake Sanderson has returned to practice, which Sportsnet reports bodes well for the team's season opener, though the Senators will head into a three-games-in-four-nights road trip without recent game action.
Andrei Kuzmenko has returned to Pittsburgh more than a week after traveling to Moscow following a bear attack that killed his father, Alexander, during a fishing trip in southern Siberia. Per Pensburgh, Kuzmenko will wear number 62 in honor of his late father.