Tennyson, 31 (4/23/90), has recorded three assists in four games with the Predators this season, notching his second career multi-point performance on Jan. 22 vs. Detroit (2a). He's spent the majority of the 2021-22 campaign with Milwaukee, tallying 14 points (3g-11a) and a +7 rating in 40 appearances. In 2020-21, he completed his 10th professional season, skating in 21 games for the New Jersey Devils - his most in an NHL campaign since 2016-17 - and five for Binghamton (AHL). After his NHL season ended, in which he tallied three points (1g-2a) and two penalty minutes, Tennyson represented the United States internationally for the first time at the 2021 World Championship and was third among American blueliners in points with four (2g-2a) en route to earning a bronze medal.
Undrafted, the 6-foot-2, 205-pound defenseman is a veteran of 169 career NHL games with San Jose (60), Carolina (45), New Jersey (41), Buffalo (19) and Nashville (4). His best statistical season in the NHL came in 2014-15 with the Sharks, where he recorded eight points (2g-6a) and averaged 17:34 of ice time. Including 2021-22, Tennyson has split each of the last eight seasons between the NHL and AHL; at the AHL level, he's amassed 129 points (31g-98a) in 345 contests. The Minneapolis, Minn., native served as an assistant captain for the Rochester Americans in 2018-19 and the Charlotte Checkers in 2016-17, and prior to turning pro, he played three seasons at Western Michigan University, winning the CCHA championship and earning a spot on the CCHA Second All-Star Team as a junior in 2011-12.
