{"id":442390,"date":"2026-01-28T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442390\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:58:11","slug":"palat-traded-to-islanders-by-devils-for-tsyplakov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442390\/","title":{"rendered":"Palat traded to Islanders by Devils for Tsyplakov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ondrej Palat<\/a> was traded to the New York Islanders by the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday for Maxim Tsyplakov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Islanders also received a third-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and a sixth-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

Palat has 10 points (four goals, six assists) in 51 games this season. The 34-year-old forward has one season remaining on a five-year, $30 million contract ($6 million average annual value) he signed with the Devils on July 14, 2022.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to miss ‘Pally.’ He’s a tremendous guy, great leader. [He’s] often the example in terms of hard work and competitiveness, practices, games,” Devils coach Sheldon Keefe said following a 4-3 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday. “So, a lot of that stuff doesn’t show up on the score sheet, and I know he’s given a hard time here because of that, but he’s a tremendous person, a tremendous character, and for a team that’s been trying to get there, he’s a guy that’s been there, done that and sets the example in lots of ways. So, we’re going to miss him.”<\/p>\n

Selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the seventh round (No. 208) of the 2011 NHL Draft, Palat has 515 points (181 goals, 334 assists) in 876 regular-season games for the Lightning and Devils. He also has 103 points (51 goals, 52 assists) in 155 Stanley Cup Playoff games and helped Tampa Bay win back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n

“It’s definitely not easy. I think everybody in here knows what Pally meant to this team, to this organization,” Devils captain Nico Hischier said. “He’s a guy that’s won it, he’s a guy that taught us a lot. He was always a guy I asked for help if I needed it. He was just a great teammate, and obviously it’s never easy to see a guy go like that, but obviously we wish him all the best and we all know that’s part of the business.”<\/p>\n

Tsyplakov has two points (one goal, one assist) in 27 games this season, his second in the NHL. The 27-year-old forward, who signed with New York as an undrafted free agent on May 16, 2024, had 35 points (10 goals, 25 assists) in 77 games as a rookie last season.<\/p>\n

That performance led to the Islanders signing Tsyplakov to a two-year contract on July 25, but his ice time has dropped by more than five minutes this season (14:58 to 9:39).<\/p>\n

It was the second trade in as many days for the Islanders (28-19-5), who are third in the Metropolitan Division. They acquired defenseman Carson Soucy<\/a> in a trade with the New York Rangers on Monday for a third-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

The Devils (27-24-2) are sixth in the Metropolitan, nine points behind the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins, who hold the two wild card spots from the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ondrej Palat was traded to the New York Islanders by the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday for Maxim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-442390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442390","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=442390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}