{"id":2992,"date":"2016-11-02T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2016-11-02T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:04:36","slug":"mike-condon-traded-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/11\/02\/mike-condon-traded-ottawa-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Condon Traded to Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/strong>\u00a0announced today that they have traded goaltender <strong>Mike Condon <\/strong>to the <strong>Ottawa Senators<\/strong>\u00a0in exchange for a fifth round pick in the <strong>2017 NHL Draft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OTT acquires Mike Condon from PIT for a draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/793866937184948228\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Mike Condon Traded to Ottawa Senators<\/h2>\n<p>The Penguins claimed Condon on waivers from the <strong>Montreal Canadiens<\/strong> on October 10th. He played in just one game for the team, serving as <strong>Marc-Andre Fleury<\/strong>&#8216;s backup while <strong>Matt Murray<\/strong> recovered from hand surgery. \u00a0Condon stopped all seven shots he faced after relieving Fleury in the Penguins 5-1 loss to Nashville on October 22.<\/p>\n<p>With Murray returning to the lineup, the Penguins found themselves with one too many goalies, and so Condon is off to the Senators, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2016\/10\/29\/solving-ottawa-senators-goaltending\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who didn&#8217;t have enough depth<\/a>. With <strong>Andrew Hammond<\/strong> injured, and <strong>Craig Anderson\u00a0<\/strong>missing some time with a family issue (though he is currently with the team), the Senators acquire an insurance policy. \u00a0The move was made, in large part, to provide insurance if Anderson needs time away from the rink again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Condon<\/strong>, 26, took over the reigns as the <strong>Montreal Canadiens<\/strong> starting goalie when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/priceca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carey Price<\/a><\/strong> was injured last year. In 55 games he finished with a 21-25-3 record, and a 2.71 goals against average with a .903 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators have also sent <strong>Matt O&#8217;Connor<\/strong> down to their <strong>AHL<\/strong> affiliate, the <strong>Binghamton Senators<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/611669704\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.835017% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/611669704?et=Em2mhhBDQr1XfNdUviqTVw&#038;viewMoreLink=on&#038;sig=9P_jq3bMGagXymQGuu8w6egAxfwG00gLKd7J6sTi2e8=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"397\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>September 29, 2016: Canadiens goalkeeper Mike Condon watching during the Ottawa Senators versus the Montreal Canadiens preseason game at Bell Centre in Montreal, QC (Photo by David Kirouac\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins\u00a0announced today that they have traded goaltender Mike Condon to the Ottawa Senators\u00a0in exchange for a fifth round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft. OTT acquires Mike Condon from PIT for a draft pick. \u2014 Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) November 2, 2016 Mike Condon Traded to Ottawa Senators The Penguins claimed Condon on waivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[12,34,8],"tags":[37,688,38,70,44],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-news","category-senators","tag-hockey","tag-mike-condon","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}