{"id":763348,"date":"2026-06-26T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763348\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:07:11","slug":"ottawa-senators-acquire-andre-burakovsky-from-chicago-in-exchange-for-a-sixth-round-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763348\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators acquire Andre Burakovsky from Chicago in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/senators.nhl.com\/index.html\" title=\"http:\/\/senators.nhl.com\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>\u00a0president of hockey operations and general manager Steve Staios announced Friday the club has acquired forward Andre Burakovsky from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Ottawa\u2019s sixth-round draft selection in the 2027 NHL Draft.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndre adds skill and playmaking ability to our forward group,\u201d said Staios. \u201cWe are happy to add the pedigree of a two-time Stanley Cup champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burakovsky, 31, won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals (2017-18) with the Colorado Avalanche (2021-22). He established career-highs in that 2021-22 season with Colorado in goals (22), assists (39) and points (61). Burakovsky spent the 2025-26 campaign with the Chicago Blackhawks, where he scored 11 goals and 33 points in 75 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 771 career games across 12 NHL seasons, the Klagenfurt, Austria, native has collected 164 goals, 256 assists and 420 points. Burakovsky was originally a first-round draft pick (23rd overall) of the Washington Capitals in the 2013 NHL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Senators website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawasenators.com\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ottawasenators.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ottawasenators.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engage with\u00a0the Senators on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/senators\" title=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Senators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the Senators on Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ottawasenators\" title=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ottawasenators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/ottawasenators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Senators on Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/senators\" title=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">senators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 end \u2013<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ottawa Senators\u00a0president of hockey operations and general manager Steve Staios announced Friday the club has acquired forward Andre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-763348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763348","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=763348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}