OTTAWA\u202f\u2013\u202fOttawa Senators\u202fpresident of hockey\\ operations and general manager Steve Staios\u00a0announced Tuesday\u00a0the Senators have acquired\u00a0forward\u00a0William Eklund,\u00a0forward\u00a0Kasper Halttunen and the rights to unsigned draft pick Brandon Svoboda\u00a0from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for\u00a0Ottawa\u2019s first-round pick, ninth overall (previously acquired from Florida) in the 2026 NHL Draft.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWilliam is a dynamic and skilled forward, who\u00a0plays with\u00a0a competitive edge,\u201d\u00a0said Staios.\u00a0\u201cWe are excited to\u00a0welcome\u00a0him\u00a0to the Senators organization\u00a0and\u00a0he will fit in\u00a0well with our core group of players.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eklund, 23,\u00a0has collected 163 points (50 goals, 113 assists) in 252 career NHL games with the Sharks. Selected seventh overall by\u00a0San Jose in the 2021 NHL Draft, Eklund is under contract\u00a0through the 2028-29 season with an AAV of $5.6 million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halttunen, 21, was selected in the second round (36th\u00a0overall) by San Jose in the 2023 NHL Draft.\u00a0He spent the 2025-26 with the San Jose Barracuda of the AHL, collecting 35 points (16 goals, 19 assists) in 69 games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Svoboda, 21, was taken in the third round (71st\u00a0overall) by the Sharks in the 2023 NHL Draft.\u00a0The centre has\u00a0spent the past two\u00a0seasons with Boston University in the NCAA, tallying 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in 35 games during the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA\u202f\u2013\u202fOttawa Senators\u202fpresident of hockey\\ operations and general manager Steve Staios\u00a0announced Tuesday\u00a0the Senators have acquired\u00a0forward\u00a0William Eklund,\u00a0forward\u00a0Kasper Halttunen and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-372570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}