{"id":909967,"date":"2026-09-26T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909967\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T05:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:04:08","slug":"ottawa-senators-acquire-g-jonas-johansson-in-trade-with-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909967\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators acquire G Jonas Johansson in trade with Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> acquired goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jonas-johansson\/8477992\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jonas-johansson\/8477992\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Johansson<\/a> in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> in exchange for future considerations, it was announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johansson, 31, appeared in 25 games (23 starts) last season with the Lightning, where he held an .884 save percentage and a 3.29 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johansson spent the past three seasons with the Lightning, and has also made stops with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> and <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> over his seven-year NHL career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This move comes one day after the Senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/report-senators-place-g-merilainen-on-waivers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/report-senators-place-g-merilainen-on-waivers\/\">cut ties with Leevi Merilainen<\/a>, who landed in Vancouver with the Canucks after the Senators placed their long-time backup on waivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 105 career NHL games, Johansson has a 3.30 GAA and an .888 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators open their regular season on Oct. 3 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators acquired goaltender Jonas Johansson in a trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,84870,82],"class_list":["post-909967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909967","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=909967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}