Jiri Smejkal's head coach in Sweden provides insight on what the 26-year-old forward can bring to the Senators next season. Whenever the Sens go shopping for a player, the media usually gets wind ...

While the Senators were signing RFA forwards Angus Crookshank and Cole Reinhardt to new one-year, two-way deals this week, they also saw Czech forward Jiri Smejkal head back home to sign a new ...

With the Senators in 29th place ... Kastelic seems to have found some chemistry on the fourth line with Jiri Smejkal and Parker Kelly. And maybe Erik Brannstrom, if that experiment continues.

Jiri Smejkal was long earmarked by pundits as a shoo-in for a mid-line roster slot with the Senators, yet through two months of play the 26-year-old Czech native has remained in the AHL with ...