With the NHL Draft over and free agency period now open, Ottawa Senators general manager and president of hockey operations Steve Staios has been busy tinkering with the club’s roster and organizational depth, signing five players to two-way NHL contracts.
Those players include returning forwards Hayden Hodgson (two-years), and Wyatt Bongiovanni (one-year), along with a pair of incoming forwards in Olle Lycksell (one-year) and Arthur Kaliyev (one-year), and a duo of goaltenders that includes rookie Jackson Parsons (three-year entry-level), and two-time Calder Cup champion Hunter Shepard (one-year).
Hodgson, 29, appeared in 43 games for the Senators’ American Hockey League affiliate in Belleville in 2024-25, and registered 11 points (five goals, six assists), plus 156 penalty minutes. Hodgson also skated in two NHL games for the club last season.
An undrafted player, Hodgson has dressed in 223 AHL games with the Cleveland Monsters, Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Ontario Reign, and Senators, collecting 72 points (36 goals, 36 assists). He’s also played in nine career NHL games with the Senators and Philadelphia Flyers, picking up a goal and two assists.
Bongiovanni, 25, appeared in 54 games for the Senators’ American Hockey League affiliate in Belleville in 2024-25, and registered 33 points (22 goals, 11 assists), plus 27 penalty minutes in his first full season with the club, after joining Belleville at the 2024 trade deadline.
An undrafted player, Bongiovanni has played in 161 AHL games throughout his career, with the Manitoba Moose and Belleville, accumulating 76 points (51 goals, 25 assists).
Lycksell, 25, appeared in 43 games for the Philadelphia Flyers’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, in 2024-25, registering 44 points (19 goals, 25 assists) and 14 penalty minutes. He also collected six points (two goals, four assists) in seven games in the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs and was named to the Atlantic Division roster at the 2025 AHL All-Star Classic. Lycksell dressed in 19 NHL games for the Flyers in 2024-25, notching five assists.
Selected by Philadelphia in the sixth round (168th overall) in the 2017 NHL Draft, Lycksell has dressed in 134 career AHL games, all with Lehigh Valley, collecting 128 points (52 goals, 76 assists over his career. Lycksell has also collected 11 points (one goal, 10 assists) over 45 NHL games, all with Philadelphia.
Kaliyev, 24, skated in 14 National Hockey League…
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