Senators trade Hoffman to Sharks for Boedker
The Ottawa Senators traded forward Mike Hoffman, prospect Cody Donaghey, and a fifth-round pick in 2020 to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for forward Mikkel Boedker, prospect Julius Bergman, and a sixth-round pick in 2020, the Senators announced.
Tuesday's trade came after the wife of Ottawa's Erik Karlsson applied for a much-publicized peace bond that accused Hoffman's fiancee of a season-long online harassment campaign. Hoffman denied the allegations.
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Hoffman, who averaged 26 goals over the last four seasons, has two years remaining on his deal with an annual cap hit of $5,187,500.
Boedker is coming off a 15-goal, 37-point campaign with the Sharks, and will have a cap hit of $4 million for each of the next two seasons.
Though the cap hits are similar, the Senators will actually be saving $5.3 million in total salary based on Tuesday's trade:
Mike Hoffman - 2 x 5,187,500 ($11.3M in salary remaining)
— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) June 19, 2018
Cody Donaghey - 1 x $641,667 (ELC)
Mikkel Boedker - 2 x $4,000,000 ($6M in salary remaining)
Julius Bergman - 1 x $714,167 (ELC)#Sens save $1,187,500 per season in cap space.#Sens save $5,300,000 in total salary paid.
As for the smaller pieces of the deal, Bergman, 22, was a second-round pick of the Sharks in 2014. A right-handed shooting defenseman, he spent the 2017-18 campaign with the AHL's San Jose Barracuda, registering 10 goals and 10 assists.
Here is one NHL scout’s take via text on Julius Bergman, who the #SJSharks traded this morning: “I thought his development as a player/prospect had somewhat flattened out, and others had passed him by on their depth chart. Not much emotion in his game.”
— Kevin Kurz (@KKurzNHL) June 19, 2018
Donaghey, also a 22-year-old right-handed shooting blue-liner, tallied 16 points in 54 games with the Brampton Beast of the ECHL last season.