Senators trade DeBrincat to Red Wings for Kubalik, Sebrango and a pair of draft picks
The Detroit Red Wings have acquired 25-year-old forward Alex DeBrincat from the Ottawa Senators.
The Senators announced on Sunday that they acquired forward Dominik Kubalik, future defenseman Donovan Sebrango, a 2024 first-round conditional and Detroit’s 2024 fourth-round pick from the Red Wings in exchange for DeBrincat.
The Red Wings signed the two-time 41-scorer from Michigan to a four-year extension with an average annual value of $7.875 million US.
The initial condition for the first round is as follows: The Red Wings have the option of sending their own 2024 first round or Boston’s 2024 first round (earlier acquired on March 2, 2023) to Ottawa.
If the Bruins’ 2024 first-round selection is ultimately a top-10 pick (after the annual lottery), Boston will have the option to keep the pick and transfer the unprotected 2025 first-round selection to Detroit. The Red Wings then have the option of sending that draft pick or their own first-round pick to the Senators in 2024 to complete this trade.
DeBrincat has 187 goals, 186 assists and 373 points in 450 NHL games with Ottawa and Chicago, who selected him in the second round, 39th overall, in the 2016 draft.
Last season, he was among the Ottawa team leaders with 27 goals (fourth), 39 assists (fifth) and 66 points (fourth). He also had 11 power play goals and six game winners.
The 27-year-old Kubalik skated in all but one of the Red Wings’ 82 regular season games in 2022/23 and built a new career high in assists (25) while falling one point short of matching his career high in points (45) by also scoring 20 goals while taking third place in team scoring.
A native of Ottawa, 21-year-old Sebrango split the 2022-23 campaign between Detroit’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins, and its ECHL affiliate, the Toledo Walleye, with 12 points (one goal, 11 assists) over 23 games with Toledo in addition to seven points (four goals, three assists) over 39 games with Grand Rapids.
Sebrango was an alternate captain with Team Canada at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton, helping the Canadians capture a gold medal by recording two points (two assists), while skating in each of his team’s seven tournament games.
