{"id":770740,"date":"2026-06-30T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:11:09","slug":"panthers-acquire-schmid-from-golden-knights-for-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770740\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers acquire Schmid from Golden Knights for draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Florida Panthers<\/a> and Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> completed a trade late Monday night, with the Panthers acquiring goaltender Akira Schmid<\/a> in exchange for a 2028 third-round pick. <\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Schmid played in 34 games with Vegas last season, posting a 16-10-6 record with an .893 save percentage (SV%) and a minus-1 goals saved above expected (GSAx). <\/p>\n

\u201cAkira is\u00a0a talented and athletic goaltender who has shown\u00a0poise\u00a0in high-pressure moments,\u201d Panthers\u2019 president of hockey operations and general manager Bill Zito said in a press release.\u00a0\u201cWe are excited to welcome him to our organization.\u201d <\/p>\n

In 82 career NHL games with the Golden Knights and New Jersey Devils<\/a>, Schmid is 32-28-10 with an .898 SV% and 2.66 goals against average (GAA). He\u2019s also posted a 4-4 record with a .924 SV% and 2.26 GAA in 10 career Stanley Cup Playoff games. <\/p>\n

We have acquired goaltender Akira Schmid from the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for our third-round selection in the 2028 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

Details \u00bb flapanthers.co\/schmid6-29-26<\/a><\/p>\n

Schmid, a native of Nesslau, Switzerland, played parts of four seasons in the American Hockey League with the Utica Comets and Henderson Silver Knights, where he posted a 51-41-18 record, an .899 SV% and a 2.96 GAA in 114 career games. <\/p>\n

In three USHL seasons, Schmid went 43-33-4 with a .918 SV% and 2.27 GAA in 86 career games with the Omaha Lancers and Sioux City Musketeers. <\/p>\n

Schmid represented his native Switzerland at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milano-Cortina, and he earned a silver medal for the Swiss at the 2024 IIHF World Championships, where he went 3-0-0 with a .946 SV% and 0.86 GAA in three games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights completed a trade late Monday night, with the Panthers acquiring goaltender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-770740","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\/770740","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=770740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}