The Ottawa Senators will lose a first-round draft pick thanks to their involvement in multiple trades involving right-winger Evgenii Dadonov in 2021 and 2022.
The NHL announced Ottawa must choose whether it will give up its 2024, 2025 or 2026 first-round pick within 24 hours of the end of this year's draft lottery.
As hockey insider Frank Seravalli explained, the decision was made because the Senators didn't supply a correct no-trade list during a sequence that saw Dadonov traded from Ottawa to the Vegas Golden Knights in July 2021 and then from the Golden Knights to the Anaheim Ducks in March 2022.