The Kings have traded winger Warren Foegele to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for the Buffalo Sabres’ 2026 second-round draft pick and a conditional swap of third-round picks.

The conditional pick swap involves the Dallas Stars’ 2026 third-round selection owned by the Kings, which will flip with the higher ’26 third-rounder between that of the Senators and Washington Capitals, as Ottawa owns multiple third-round picks in the upcoming draft.

Foegele, 29, had the best season of his career in his first year as a King, with personal bests in goals, assists, points and plus-minus rating. Linemate Trevor Moore suggested that if a Kings player were engineered “in a lab,” it would look like Foegele.

Yet this season he was fettered by scratches of both the injured and healthy variety. His goals dropped from 22 to 7, and his assists from 24 to 2. His plus-minus plummeted from +36 to -6.

He gets a fresh start in Ottawa and significantly the Sens pick up the final year of his three-year, $10.5 million pact, which he signed in the summer of 2024 after departing the archrival Edmonton Oilers without a contract offer.

Foegele began his career with the Carolina Hurricanes, playing in winning environments during his whole career. He is a two-way, middle-six winger that excelled on the penalty kill last season. Now, he goes from a team five points out of the final playoff berth in the West to another six points back of the last opening in the East.

A workout partner of Quinton Byfield in the offseason, Foegele made himself at home fast, skating much of last season with Moore and Phillip Danault, who is also north of the border, plying his trade for the Montreal Canadiens again after a Dec. 20 trade. And now Foegele, a Markham native, heads to his home province as well.

Foegele had been mentioned tangentially as a trade possibility by general manager Ken Holland, but after a rash of injuries on the flank – Kevin Fiala and Andrei Kuzmenko were lost for the season and Joel Armia was also sidelined – Foegele’s status seemed a bit less clear.

The Athletic’s Eric Stephens confirmed Thursday that Foegele requested a trade, and in a sellers’ market ahead of Friday’s noon trade deadline, the Kings were able to accommodate his request and get solid value in return. That also made him the third player to ask out and have his wish granted, following Danault’s exodus in December and that of Jordan Spence, who also landed in Ottawa, in June.

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