{"id":763396,"date":"2026-06-26T22:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763396\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:31:17","slug":"burakovsky-traded-to-senators-by-blackhawks-for-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763396\/","title":{"rendered":"Burakovsky traded to Senators by Blackhawks for draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 31-year-old forward had 33 points (11 goals, 22 assists) in 75 games for the\u00a0Blackhawks this season, his first with the team after he was acquired in a trade with the Seattle Kraken on June 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Burakovsky is entering the last of\u00a0a five-year, $27.5 million contract ($5.5 million average annual value) he signed with Seattle on July 13, 2022, and can become an unrestricted free agent after next season.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Washington Capitals in the first round (No. 23) of the 2013\u00a0NHL Draft, Burakovsky has 420 points (164 goals, 256 assists) in 771 regular-season games for the Capitals, Colorado Avalanche, Kraken and Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p>He has 47 points (20 goals, 27 assists) in 93 Stanley Cup Playoff games and won the Cup with the Capitals in 2018 and Avalanche in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andre adds skill and playmaking ability to our forward group,&#8221; Senators general manager Steve Staios said. &#8220;We are happy to add the pedigree of a two-time Stanley Cup champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Ottawa also acquired goalie Samuel\u00a0Ersson from the Toronto Maple Leafs for a fifth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators traded forward and their captain Brady\u00a0Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers on Sunday for the No. 9 and No. 25 pick in the 2026 draft, a first-round pick (conditional) in the 2029 NHL Draft and a second-round pick in the 2027 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 31-year-old forward had 33 points (11 goals, 22 assists) in 75 games for the\u00a0Blackhawks this season, his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-763396","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\/763396","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=763396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}