Canada's Tyler Steenbergen shoots and scores on Denmark goalie Mads Sogaard during World Junior exhibition hockey action at the Canadian national junior hockey team selection camp, in St. Catharines, Ont., on December 15, 2017. The Ottawa Senators have signed Sogaard to a three-year, entry-level contract. The 20-year-old recently completed his first full professional season with the Esbjerg Energy of Denmark’s top-tier hockey league. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Power
April 13, 2021 - 12:59 PM
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed goaltender Mads Sogaard to a three-year, entry-level contract.
The 20-year-old recently completed his first full professional season with the Esbjerg Energy of Denmark’s top-tier hockey league.
He posted a 10-5-1 record with a 2.58 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage as Esbjerg advanced to the league semifinal.
The six-foot-seven native of Aalborg, Denmark, spent the two previous campaigns with the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers and posted a major junior career best 21-13-2 record with four shutouts over 37 games in 2019-20.
He ranks 15th in franchise career wins with 40 over two seasons in Medicine Hat, and tied for fourth with seven shutouts.
Sogaard was the Senators’ second second-round pick (37th overall) at the 2019 NHL draft.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 13, 2021.
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