Ullmark Returns: Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark<\/a> returned<\/a> to the active roster on Sunday after missing the last four weeks on a leave of absence for mental health reasons.\u00a0 Youngster Leevi Merilainen<\/a> struggled mightily in Ullmark\u2019s absence, posting a save percentage of just .843 that ultimately resulted in Ottawa signing veteran James Reimer<\/a> to try to give them a slight boost.\u00a0 Ullmark has had his struggles as well this season but if the Senators are going to turn things around and get back into the playoff race, they\u2019ll need him to have even a chance of doing so.<\/p>\n Help For Florida: It has been a rough year on the injury front for the Panthers but they got some good news on that front.\u00a0 First, winger Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> returned<\/a> after missing the first 47 games due to an adductor injury.\u00a0 He has averaged more than a point per game over the last four seasons and gives them their top winger back in the lineup.\u00a0 To make cap room for Tkachuk, Seth Jones<\/a> was moved to LTIR and was subsequently replaced<\/a> on Team USA\u2019s Olympic roster by Jackson Lacombe.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Florida also got<\/a> Brad Marchand<\/a> back from an undisclosed injury that went from day-to-day to multiple weeks.\u00a0 The veteran was their leading scorer before the injury while being pressed into a bigger-than-expected offensive role due to the injuries.\u00a0 The Panthers are five points out of a playoff spot but now have their top wingers back to aid in their postseason push.<\/p>\n Wright In Play? It wasn\u2019t too long ago that Shane Wright<\/a> was the projected top pick of the 2022 draft.\u00a0 He ultimately fell to fourth where Seattle was happy to scoop him up.\u00a0 However, the Kraken are now believed to be open to moving him<\/a>, feeling that they can leverage their center depth to fill another area of need on their roster.\u00a0 The 22-year-old is in his second full NHL season but after a strong showing in 2024-25 where he had 19 goals and 25 assists in 79 games, his output has dipped this year.\u00a0 Through 51 games so far, Wright has just seven goals and 11 helpers while his ice time has dropped under 14 minutes per night.\u00a0 That said, Wright still has one more year left on his entry-level contract and five more seasons of club control so Seattle will justifiably be aiming high if they ultimately decide to move him.<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of\u00a0Jeff Curry-Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Olympic trade freeze coming up soon, trade activity is starting to percolate around the NHL.\u00a0 To…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85,26176],"class_list":["post-438449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-week-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/USATSI_27459251-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Sherwood To Sharks: Going into the season, few would have expected the Sharks to be adding a rental player.\u00a0 However, with the final few playoff spots in the West (and the Pacific Division, in particular) up for grabs and a better-than-expected first half, San Jose is now a buyer.\u00a0 To that end, they dealt<\/a> a pair of second-round picks along with AHL defenseman Cole Clayton<\/a> to Vancouver in exchange for winger Kiefer Sherwood<\/a>.\u00a0 The 30-year-old got off to a great start offensively this season and has 17 goals in 44 games.\u00a0 Meanwhile, after recording a league-record 462 hits in 2024-25, Sherwood has 210 this season, or 4.77 per game.\u00a0 A pending unrestricted free agent, Sherwood is in line for a significant raise from his current $1.5MM cap charge and should be in line for a fairly long-term contract as well.<\/p>\n