{"id":519413,"date":"2026-03-07T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519413\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:14:07","slug":"capitals-trade-graeme-clarke-to-senators-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519413\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals Trade Graeme Clarke To Senators \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senators and Capitals apparently connected on a last-minute minor deal before the deadline. Washington dealt forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/clarkgr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Graeme Clarke<\/a>\u00a0to Ottawa in exchange for center\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/233479\/wyatt-bongiovanni\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wyatt Bongiovanni<\/a>, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PuckPedia\/status\/2030052457783382085?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">PuckPedia<\/a>. Both players will report to their new clubs\u2019 AHL affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>The deal essentially only has minor-league considerations, and both players could only last a few weeks in their new homes. Both are on two-way deals and will be Group VI unrestricted free agents this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke, 24, will bring some goal-scoring acumen to the Sens\u2019 depth ranks. The B-Sens have lost one of their top producers with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hallist01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Halliday<\/a>\u00a0working his way onto the NHL roster, so they\u2019ve needed a little bit of help. The former third-round pick of the Devils isn\u2019t having the best year, but he\u2019s still managed 15 goals in 50 games for AHL Hershey after signing with the Caps as a non-tendered RFA last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa will be the fourth NHL organization for Clarke. He does have an NHL resume, but it only consists of three games with New Jersey in 2023-24. He was then traded to the Wild for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/beckmad01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adam Beckman<\/a>\u00a0the following summer and then spent all of 2024-25 in the minors before Minnesota opted not to issue him a qualifying offer.<\/p>\n<p>Bongiovanni, 26, has put up comparable production, but unlike Clarke has utility down the middle. The 6\u20190\u2033 pivot has been in Ottawa\u2019s system since being acquired from the Jets for future considerations at the 2024 trade deadline. He\u2019s posted 12 goals and 25 points in 54 games for the B-Sens this season with a -13 rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senators and Capitals apparently connected on a last-minute minor deal before the deadline. Washington dealt forward\u00a0Graeme Clarke\u00a0to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[205113,43,44,744,41,39,42,40,4584,754,87052],"class_list":{"0":"post-519413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-graeme-clarke","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-transactions","17":"tag-washington-capitals","18":"tag-wyatt-bongiovanni"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519413","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=519413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}