{"id":469945,"date":"2026-02-24T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469945\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:51:12","slug":"colorado-avalanche-acquire-d-brett-kulak-from-pittsburgh-penguins-for-defenceman-samuel-girard-second-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469945\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche acquire D Brett Kulak from Pittsburgh Penguins for defenceman Samuel Girard, second-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Colorado Avalache have acquired defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brett-kulak\/8476967\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brett-kulak\/8476967\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Kulak<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> in exchange for defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/samuel-girard\/8479398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/samuel-girard\/8479398\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Girard<\/a> and a 2028 second-round pick, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s the second time Kulak has been traded this season, going from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> to the Penguins on Dec. 12 in a deal involving goaltenders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tristan-jarry\/8477465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tristan-jarry\/8477465\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Jarry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/stuart-skinner\/8479973\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/stuart-skinner\/8479973\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Skinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old blueliner has one goal and eight assists for nine points in 56 games this season split between the two teams while averaging 18:53 of ice time a night. He is a pending unrestricted free agent, carrying a cap hit of $2.75 million on his expiring deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kulak is a veteran of 12 NHL seasons split between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> in addition to the Oilers and Penguins.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tidy business for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#pens<\/a>, who have now turned Tristan Jarry and Sam Poulin into: <\/p>\n<p>Stuart Skinner<br \/>Sam Girard <br \/>2028 2nd<br \/>2029 2nd<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/2026361576878387493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old Girard has three goals and 12 assists in 40 games with the Avs in 2025-26, averaging 17:41 of ice time per game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Girard is signed through next season at a cap hit of $5 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After beginning his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> in 2017-18, Girard joined the Avalanche during that season and played the next nine seasons in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/tradecentre\/trade-tracker\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/tradecentre\/trade-tracker\/\">Follow the latest NHL trades here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalache have acquired defenceman Brett Kulak from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenceman Samuel Girard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,56829,33752,5,4,32614],"class_list":{"0":"post-469945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-brett-kulak-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476967","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-21","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116127117008747363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}