{"id":497000,"date":"2026-02-24T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:12:07","slug":"penguins-trade-brett-kulak-to-avalanche-for-samuel-girard-second-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497000\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins trade Brett Kulak to Avalanche for Samuel Girard, second-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the NHL&#8217;s Olympic break ending, trade season has begun.<\/p>\n<p>Kulak, 32, has played in 56 games this season, collecting one goal and eight assists while carrying a minus-five.<\/p>\n<p>The left-shot defenceman began the year with the Edmonton Oilers, but was traded to Pittsburgh as part of the deal that saw Stuart Skinner and Tristan Jarry swap creases.<\/p>\n<p>Kulak is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent after this season. He has a cap hit of $2.75 million.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth-round pick of the Calgary Flames in 2012, Kulak has played in parts of 12 NHL seasons. In 636 career games, he has 29 goals and 134 points.<\/p>\n<p>Girard, meanwhile, will head to Pittsburgh after skating in 40 games for Colorado. He averaged 17:41 of ice time per night, scored three goals and dished out nine assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old D-man has spent the last nine seasons with the Avalanche after breaking into the NHL with the Nashville Predators in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>Girard is in the sixth season of a seven-year deal, which carries a $5-million average annual value. He will become an unrestricted free agent after the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, the Roberval, Que., native has 37 goals and 235 points in 588 games. He also won the Stanley Cup with Colorado in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the NHL&#8217;s Olympic break ending, trade season has begun. Kulak, 32, has played in 56 games this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-497000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497000","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=497000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}