Winchester Nets Two-Year Deal
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OTTAWA - Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan
Murray announced today the club has re-signed forward Jesse
Winchester to a two-year deal.
Winchester, 26, finished his second NHL season with the Senators
with two goals, 11 assists and 22 penalty minutes in 52 games. He
began the season with the club’s American Hockey League
affiliate, the Binghamton Senators, on a four-game conditioning
stint, recording two goals and two assists in four games.
Winchester suffered a knee injury during a pre-season game against
the Montreal Canadiens on Sept. 18. A right leg injury kept him out
of another 11 games in January. In his first six NHL playoff games
against the Pittsburgh Penguins, he was kept off the
scoresheet.
Winchester first signed with the Senators on March 24, 2008, and
made his NHL debut five days later against the Boston Bruins,
recording two penalty minutes in 14 minutes of ice time. In 129
career games with the Senators, he has five goals, 26 assists and
57 penalty minutes.
Prior to joining with the Senators in 2008, the Long Sault, Ont.,
native spent four seasons playing for the Colgate University Red
Raiders of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association (ECAC). The
6-1, 215-pound forward played in 143 games over his four-year
career at Colgate, scoring 40 goals and adding 74 assists for 114
points while accumulating 158 penalty minutes.
Winchester spent much of his amateur hockey career in the Ottawa
area, playing for the Cornwall Colts of the Central Hockey League
before attending Colgate. In his final season with Cornwall in
2003-04, he was named most valuable player, scoring 23 goals and
adding a league-leading 59 assists for 82 points in 54 games. Prior
to playing with Cornwall, he played for the Winchester Hawks of the
Eastern Ontario
