St. Louis Blues and Ottawa Senators complete a trade

Just a day after free Agency began the Ottawa Senators and St. Louis Blues have completed a trade.

Both the Ottawa Senators and St. Louis Blues missed the playoffs last year and are looking for a change of fortune this year. After a relatively quiet first day of free agency, the Blues and Senators have turned to each other as trade partners.

Today Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, shared that the Ottawa Senators are reportedly trading Mathieu Joseph to the Blues.

Hearing Mathieu Joseph being traded to St. Louis

 

The Senators had reportedly been trying to trade Joseph to clear up cap space and had previously been linked to Seattle Kraken's Brandon Tanev as a possible trade candidate. Last season in 72 games, Joseph scored 11 goals an added 24 assists for the Senators.

Update: The Senators are paying to have Joseph off their cap according to Chris Johnston.

Hearing the #sens are sending a draft pick along with Mathieu Joseph to #stlblues for future considerations.

Clears salary in Ottawa as Joseph had two more years under contract at a $2.95M AAV.

 

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Ottawa Senators	30	20.5 %
St. Louis Blues	71	48.6 %
It depends on what Ottawa does next	45	30.8 %
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