{"id":517339,"date":"2026-03-06T03:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517339\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:57:10","slug":"red-wings-re-acquire-david-perron-from-senators-for-conditional-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517339\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings re-acquire David Perron from Senators for conditional pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/detroit-red-wings\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have re-acquired veteran forward David Perron from the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> in exchange for a conditional 2026 fourth-round draft pick, the club announced Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Perron, 37, has 10 goals and 25 points in 49 games with the Senators this year. The 6\u2032 winger is under contract through the end of the 2025-26 season at a $4 million annual cap hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The Senators will receive the fourth-round pick (originally belonging to the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/columbus-blue-jackets\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>) if Perron plays one game with the Red Wings before the end of the regular season; he has been <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/ottawa-senators-david-perron-to-miss-5-7-weeks-with-sports-hernia-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">out since Jan. 20 while recovering from a sports hernia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Additionally, if the Red Wings reach the second round of the playoffs, with Perron playing in at least half of the first round, the pick will upgrade to Detroit\u2019s own 2026 third-round selection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tweet-body_root__YlarM\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"auto\">UPDATE: The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RedWings\" class=\"tweet-link_root__lkS8f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#RedWings<\/a> have acquired David Perron from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for a conditional fourth round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Perron previously played with the Red Wings in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons after signing with the team as an unrestricted free agent. He left Detroit as a UFA once again in 2024 to sign a two-year deal with the Senators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/st-louis-blues\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> originally selected Perron in the first round (No. 26 overall) of the 2007 NHL Draft. Perron has played in 11 seasons with the Blues over three separate stints (2007-2013, 2016-2017, 2018-2022), winning the Stanley Cup with the club in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Perron has also played with the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>, and <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/vegas-golden-knights\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> in his journeyman career, collecting 329 goals and 809 points in 1,229 games over 19 seasons. The Sherbrooke, Que. product has added 26 goals and 64 points in 110 playoff contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">In moving from Ottawa to Detroit, Perron joins a Red Wings team that currently ranks third in the Atlantic Division with a 35-20-7 record and 77 points through 62 games this season. Conversely, the Senators sit six points back of the final Eastern Conference playoff spot with a 29-22-9 record and 67 points in 60 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings have re-acquired veteran forward David Perron from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-517339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517339","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=517339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}