{"id":762223,"date":"2026-06-26T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762223\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:49:10","slug":"senators-acquire-g-samuel-ersson-from-maple-leafs-for-2027-fifth-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762223\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators acquire G Samuel Ersson from Maple Leafs for 2027 fifth-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 26-year-old is scheduled to be a restricted free agent on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Ersson spent each of the last four seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, who selected the Swedish netminder with the 143rd pick of the 2018 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>He was dealt to Toronto in mid-June alongside a 2026 third-round pick and defenceman Emil Andrae in exchange for Simon Benoit and Joseph Woll.<\/p>\n<p>Through 143 total games of NHL experience, all with Philadelphia, Ersson holds a .884 save percentage and 3.01 GAA. He now joins the Senators on the heels of a 2025-26 season in which he made 29 appearances (14 starts) and went 14-11-5 while posting a .870 save percentage and 3.12 GAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 26-year-old is scheduled to be a restricted free agent on July 1. Ersson spent each of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-762223","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\/762223","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=762223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}