{"id":188236,"date":"2025-10-03T22:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188236\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:20:06","slug":"ottawa-senators-acquire-kurtis-macdermid-from-new-jersey-devils-for-zack-macewen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188236\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators acquire Kurtis MacDermid from New Jersey Devils for Zack MacEwen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ottawa Senators<\/a> have acquired forward Kurtis MacDermid<\/a> from the New Jersey Devils<\/a> in exchange for forward Zack MacEwen<\/a>, it was announced Friday evening.<\/p>\n

MacDermid, 31, had zero points and 23 penalty minutes in 23 games last season for New Jersey while averaging 5:47 of ice time per game. He has played in 288 NHL games in his career. <\/p>\n

He has registered 11 goals, 20 assists and 391 penalty minutes in his 288-game NHL career spread out over eight seasons. Undrafted, he made his debut with the Los Angeles Kings<\/a> during the 2017-18 campaign. He joined the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> at the start of the 2021-22 season before ending up in New Jersey in March of 2024.<\/p>\n

MacDermid is heading into the second year of a three-year, $3.45 million deal that carries a cap hit of $1.15 million. He is scheduled to hit free agency after the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-5 left-shot defenceman was also a member of the Stanley Cup winning Avalanche roster in 2021-22, but did not appear for the team in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

MacEwen, 29, split last season between Ottawa and Belleville in the AHL. In 21 NHL games in 2024-25, he scored two goals and added one assist with 21 penalty minutes. In 23 AHL games, he tallied seven goals and nine assists with 29 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n

He is heading into the final season of a three-year, $2.33 million contract that carries a $775,000 cap hit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators have acquired forward Kurtis MacDermid from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forward Zack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,79562,84870,82],"class_list":["post-188236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-jersey-devils-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-1","tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}