{"id":728083,"date":"2026-06-26T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728083\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:57:08","slug":"ersson-traded-to-senators-by-maple-leafs-for-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728083\/","title":{"rendered":"Ersson traded to Senators by Maple Leafs for draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was 14-11-5 with a 3.12 goals-against average and .870 save percentage in 33 games (29 starts) this season. The 26-year-old did not play in the playoffs, serving as the backup to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dan-vladar-8478435\" title=\"Dan Vladar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Vladar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make some decisions as to what (our goalie pipeline) looks like,&#8221; Maple Leafs general manager John Chayka said after Ersson was acquired, as to whether or not he would remain with the team. &#8220;He&#8217;s a good young goaltender, he&#8217;s someone we identified with upside and someone our staff could work with so we will get together with director of goaltending development and scouting Curtis McElhinney and make that decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Flyers in the fifth round (No. 143) of the 2018 NHL Draft, Ersson is 65-50-17 with a 3.01 GAA, .884 save percentage and seven shutouts in 143 regular-season games (133 starts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was 14-11-5 with a 3.12 goals-against average and .870 save percentage in 33 games (29 starts) this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-728083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}