{"id":769194,"date":"2026-06-30T04:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769194\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:59:08","slug":"florida-panthers-acquire-g-schmid-from-vegas-golden-knights-in-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769194\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers acquire G Schmid from Vegas Golden Knights in swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> completed a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> on Monday to acquire goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Schmid<\/a> in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schmid, 26, appeared in 34 games for the Golden Knights this past season, where he registered a 2.59 goals-against average and an .893 save percentage to go along with a 16-10-6 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fifth-year goaltender spent the past two seasons with Vegas after starting his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Originally selected in the fifth round (136th overall) in the 2018 NHL Draft by the Devils, Schmid made his NHL debut three years later with New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over 82 career NHL games played, the native of Bern, Switzerland has a record of 32-28-10 to go with a 2.67 GAA and a .898 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schmid was a member of Switzerland\u2019s roster at the men\u2019s Olympics in February, where he played in three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers completed a trade with the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday to acquire goaltender Akira Schmid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,136587,575,85,124916],"class_list":["post-769194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-florida-panthers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-13","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vegas-golden-knights-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-54"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769194","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=769194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}