{"id":126974,"date":"2022-03-20T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=126974"},"modified":"2022-03-20T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T00:59:21","slug":"nick-paul-traded-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/03\/20\/nick-paul-traded-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Trade Nick Paul to the Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time defending Stanley Cup champions add more depth to their forward group by acquiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/paulni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Paul<\/a> from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/josepma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathieu Joseph<\/a> and a fourth-round pick in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roster update: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sens<\/a> have acquired forward Mathieu Joseph and a fourth-round draft pick in 2024 in a trade with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TBLightning<\/a> in exchange for forward Nick Paul.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the transaction, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sens<\/a> will retain 44.5% of Paul&#8217;s remaining 2021-22 salary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TlXC8Cp9DW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TlXC8Cp9DW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ottawa Senators (@Senators) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Senators\/status\/1505691948417531905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nick Paul Traded to Tampa Bay<\/h2>\n<p>Nick Paul is a left-winger\/centre who has 11 goals, seven assists for 18 points in 56 games this season for the Senators. The 27-year-old plays on average 17:22 for Ottawa with a 45.2 Corsi for percentage. He plays on average 2:12 on the penalty kill and is 14th best in the league in takeaways over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Paul is the last remaining piece from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/spezzja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Spezza<\/a> deal to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> to move on from the Senators. He spent parts of seven years as a Senator, the only team he&#8217;s played for in his NHL career. In 227 games, Paul scored 29 goals, 37 assists for 66 points.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Senators receive 25-year-old winger Mathieu Joseph. The Lightning drafted Joseph 120th overall in 2015. In 58 games this season, Joseph has eight goals, 10 assists for 18 points. He plays 13:42 per game with a 45.8 Corsi for percentage. Joseph has played four seasons with the Lightning. In 221 games, he has 37 goals, 33 assists for 70 points.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa retained $600,00 of Paul&#8217;s $1.35 million salary-cap hit, leaving the Lightning with a cap hit of $749,250. Paul is a free agent at the end of this season. Joseph has a cap hit of $737,500 and is a restricted free agent at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for Both Teams<\/h3>\n<p>For Tampa Bay, they receive a big, versatile defensive forward who can provide some secondary scoring. Paul is comfortable playing left-wing or centre. He&#8217;s an intelligent player who is good at stealing pucks, cycling the puck and penalty killing. When he gets an offensive chance, he has the skill to capitalize on it.<\/p>\n<p>For Ottawa, they receive a replacement for Paul in their line-up in Mathieu Joseph. Joseph is a fast, hard-working winger who has a bit more offensive upside than Nick Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"CJofEB8cRZtYWAYnFCFGgQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1239251436\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'CJofEB8cRZtYWAYnFCFGgQ',sig:'pFocnMpSBJETG6X61afJLdSrtPeq6j8XcFBW6xxjQdE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1239251436',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time defending Stanley Cup champions add more depth to their forward group by acquiring Nick Paul from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for Mathieu Joseph and a fourth-round pick in 2024. Roster update: The #Sens have acquired forward Mathieu Joseph and a fourth-round draft pick in 2024 in a trade with @TBLightning in exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3331,"featured_media":126979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,34,4548,8,9],"tags":[2293,2424],"class_list":["post-126974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-senators","category-lightning","tag-mathieu-joseph","tag-nick-paul"],"modified_by":"Noah Foster, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}