{"id":372630,"date":"2026-06-24T06:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:05:23","slug":"ottawa-senators-acquire-william-eklund-two-prospects-from-san-jose-sharks-for-2026-no-9-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372630\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators acquire William Eklund, two prospects from San Jose Sharks for 2026 No. 9 pick"},"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> have acquired winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/william-eklund\/8482667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/william-eklund\/8482667\" target=\"_blank\">William Eklund<\/a> as well as forward prospects Kasper Halttunen and Brandon Svoboda from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> for the ninth-overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators picked up the ninth-overall selection on Sunday in the deal that sent captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brady-tkachuk\/8480801\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brady-tkachuk\/8480801\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Tkachuk<\/a> to the <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>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Eklund, 23, scored 15 goals with 53 points in 78 games last season with San Jose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The seventh-overall pick by the Sharks in 2021, the Stockholm native has scored 50 goals with 163 points in 253 career NHL games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Halttunen, 21, was drafted in the second round (36th overall) by the Sharks in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 69 games with the AHL\u2019s San Jose Barracuda in 2025-26, he scored 16 goals with 35 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Svoboda completed his second season in the NCAA with Boston University in 2025-26, where he scored six goals with 15 points in 35 games. He was a third-round pick (71st overall) by San Jose in 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators have acquired winger William Eklund as well as forward prospects Kasper Halttunen and Brandon Svoboda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6013,150952,88,90,89,9685,150953],"class_list":["post-372630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-apple-news","tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-28","tag-william-eklund-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482667"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372630","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=372630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}