4:13 p.m.: The Senators are adding some depth on the wings, with Darren Dreger of TSN<\/a> reporting they\u2019re acquiring forward\u00a0Warren Foegele<\/a> from the Kings. Ottawa is sending the Sabres\u2019 2026 second-round pick (acquired in last year\u2019s Dylan Cozens<\/a>\/Joshua Norris<\/a>\u00a0deal) to Los Angeles in return, while the clubs are also swapping conditional third-round picks, per David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period<\/a>.<\/p>\n Foegele is playing the season in year two of a three-year, $10.5MM deal and has a five-team no-trade list, which presumably didn\u2019t include his home country\u2019s capital. He still has another year left on that contract at a $3.5MM cap hit \u2013 a steep commitment if he can\u2019t rebound to his career-average form, let alone the back-to-back 20-goal seasons he\u2019d put up leading into this year. He\u2019s making only $3MM in actual salary next season, though, so that\u2019ll be financially attractive for the Sens\u2019 books.<\/p>\n While he\u2019d recently squeezed back into the Kings\u2019 lineup thanks to their rash of injuries at forward, he\u2019ll likely get a longer leash in Ottawa\u2019s top-nine, at least to start.\u00a0David Perron<\/a>\u00a0is close to a return from his sports hernia surgery<\/a>, but his absence has stretched their depth scoring thin with\u00a0Nick Cousins<\/a>\u00a0needing to step up into a third-line role (although even he\u2019s produced at a better rate than Foegele has this year).<\/p>\n That makes a second-round pick a steep price to pay for a player on an undesirable contract who may not be in Ottawa\u2019s regular lineup when Perron returns to health, but it\u2019s only further evidence of the seller\u2019s market this deadline is quickly turning out to be. Comparable fourth-line pieces like\u00a0Michael McCarron<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Nic Dowd<\/a>\u00a0have fetched similar returns in the past few days, but those names carry added value as centers (where Foegele has zero utility), and the Sens likely valued his controllability for another year while hoping a change of scenery could make his production more efficient.<\/p>\n Selling off a forward is at first glance counterintuitive for a Kings club that\u2019s had nightmarish scoring troubles this season and is currently down a pair of top-nine wingers for the rest of the season in\u00a0Kevin Fiala<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Andrei Kuzmenko<\/a>. After swinging a deal for\u00a0Artemi Panarin<\/a>\u00a0last month, they were clearly trying to get themselves back into the playoff picture after a rough start, but their recent rash of injuries \u2013 plus the fact they managed to get Panarin extended for two more seasons \u2013 has seemingly pushed them the other way, with ESPN\u2019s Emily Kaplan<\/a> calling them a \u201cwild card team in terms of direction.\u201d Nonetheless, it\u2019s tidy work in a vacuum to land a top-64 pick for a name they haven\u2019t been using while opening up cap space to retool for next season.<\/p>\n Image courtesy of Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images.<\/p>\n Bruce Garrioch of Postmedia<\/a> was first to report a second-round pick was headed the Kings\u2019 way, while Frank Seravalli of Victory+<\/a> was first to report a pick swap was included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5:30 p.m.:\u00a0The deal is now official, per both clubs. 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<\/a>Foegele, 30 next month, is a big left winger with some legitimate scoring upside, although he hasn\u2019t shown much of it this season. He\u2019s scored just seven goals and nine points in 47 games this year, and he was moved to the press box for five of the Kings\u2019 last 10 games after being a lineup staple for L.A. and Edmonton for the last several seasons. Even still, he\u2019s averaged 16 goals and 32 points per 82 games over his nine-year career.<\/p>\n