{"id":761012,"date":"2026-06-25T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:06:09","slug":"washington-capitals-trade-rfa-lapierre-to-penguins-after-adding-kyrou-tuch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761012\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals trade RFA Lapierre to Penguins after adding Kyrou, Tuch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> have traded restricted free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/hendrix-lapierre\/8482148\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/hendrix-lapierre\/8482148\" target=\"_blank\">Hendrix Lapierre<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> in exchange for a 2027 third-round pick and a fifth-rounder in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lapierre, 24, four goals and 16 points in 74 games with the Capitals this past season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Selected 22nd overall in the 2020 draft, the Gatineau, Que. native has 13 goals and 47 points in 158 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lapierre may have been squeezed out of the Capitals lineup after the team made major trades to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jordan-kyrou\/8479385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jordan-kyrou\/8479385\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Kyrou<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-tuch\/8477949\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-tuch\/8477949\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tuch<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/tradecentre\/trade-tracker\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/tradecentre\/trade-tracker\/\">Follow every deal with TSN\u2019s Trade Tracker. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals have traded restricted free agent Hendrix Lapierre to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-761012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761012","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=761012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}