{"id":427410,"date":"2023-02-23T19:57:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T00:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427410"},"modified":"2023-02-24T01:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T06:06:01","slug":"orlov-hathaway-join-bruins-from-capitals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/orlov-hathaway-join-bruins-from-capitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlov, Hathaway join Bruins from Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins bolstered their squad after signing forward Garnet Hathaway and defenseman Dmitry Orlov from the Washington Capitals in exchange for forward Craig Smith, a 2023 first-round pick, a 2025 second-round pick, and a 2024 third-round pick, the two NHL teams announced on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Boston, fellas. \ud83d\udc4b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/md9C36xNPB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/md9C36xNPB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/1628943480654553088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This trade allows us to acquire draft capital, infuse youth, and restock our system,&#8221; Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this season has proven challenging with injuries to our significant players, we are in a position to use some of our current assets to retool our club and build a competitive team moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Washington will retain 50% of Orlov&#8217;s salary as part of the trade.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Wild are also retaining an additional 25% and sent Boston the rights to forward Andrei Svetlakov in exchange for the Bruins&#8217; 2023 fifth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#8217;s pair of new acquisitions can both become unrestricted free agents in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Before retention, Orlov carried a cap hit of $5.1 million, but he&#8217;ll now cost the Bruins $1.275 million. Hathaway, meanwhile, comes with a $1.5-million price tag.<\/p>\n<p>Boston has done well to shore up its blue line and bottom-six forward group by adding Orlov and Hathaway<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Hathaway has nine goals and seven assists in 59 games this season while leading the Capitals with 198 hits and pacing all Washington forwards with 65 blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Orlov, also 31, ranks second on the Caps in average ice time (22:43) while chipping in with three goals, 19 points, 88 hits, and 62 blocks in 43 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins bolstered their squad after signing forward Garnet Hathaway and defenseman Dmitry Orlov from the Washington Capitals in exchange for forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427411,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17259,17091],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Capitals will retain 50% of Orlov's salary as part of the trade","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427410"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427410"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}