Ottawa Senators sign Mads Sogaard to two-year contract

The Ottawa Senators announced on Monday they have come to terms with goaltender Mads Sogaard on a two-year contract. The deal sees Sogaard signed on a two-way contract in 2024-25, which then converts into a one-way contract in 2025-26.

Podcast host and broadcaster Brent Wallace was the first to report the figures involved as Sogaard is set to earn $775,000 at the NHL level and $225,000 at the AHL level.

The 23-year-old netminder was a restricted free agent this summer and is coming off a season where the majority of his year was spent in the minors. Sogaard appeared in 32 games for the AHL’s Belleville Senators in 2023-24, posting a 18-9-3 record along with a 2.45 goals-against average (GAA) and .916 save percentage (Sv.%). Down the stretch of last season, Sogaard managed to dress in six NHL games for the Senators, tallying a 1-3-0 record with a .859 Sv.%.

Since originally being a second-round pick, 37th overall at the 2019 NHL Draft, the Aalborg, Denmark native has a career 10-10-3 record at the NHL level, including a 3.44 GAA and .884 Sv.%.

Sogaard enters the 2024-25 season as Ottawa’s third option in net behind the likes of freshly acquired Linus Ullmark and Anton Forsberg, who both have just one season remaining on their contracts and are pending unrestricted free agents at season’s end. Ullmark is very likely to see a contract extension coming his way at some point, meanwhile the 31-year-old Forsberg will have to play his way into a future with the Senators. Forsberg is set to earn $2.75 million against the cap in the final season of his three-year deal he signed back in 2022.

Ottawa finished the 2023-24 season ranked 28th in the NHL in goals-against per game and are hopeful they can turn things around in a major way next season and get themselves back into Stanley Cup Playoff contention in the Eastern Conference.