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The Ottawa Senators have found their starting goaltender, signing Joonas Korpisalo to a five-year contract worth $20 million.
Korpisalo will be paid $4 million in 2023-24, $5 million in 2024-25, $4.5 million in 2025-26, $3.5 million in 2026-27 and $3 million in 2027-28, the Senators announced.
The 29-year-old was quietly excellent during the 2022-23 campaign, split between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Los Angeles Kings. He finished 11th in goals saved above expected during the regular season via MoneyPuck, while playing 28 games on an abysmal Blue Jackets team.
Los Angeles took note of Korpisalo’s stellar season while trying to accelerate its timeline towards Stanley Cup contention, so it acquired him and blueliner Vladislav Gavrikov at the deadline in exchange for Jonathan Quick, a conditional 2023 first-round pick (later traded to Philadelphia, used on Oliver Bonk with the 22nd pick) and a 2024 third-round selection. Korpisalo’s quality of play declined during the postseason, posting a .892 save percentage as the Kings were eliminated in the first round by the Edmonton Oilers.
It’s a calculated risk for the Senators, who are looking for an immediate upgrade between the pipes after running a platoon during the 2022-23 season, primarily consisting of Cam Talbot and Anton Forsberg. Korpisalo is coming off the best season of his career and the average annual value is reasonable, but will he be able to sustain this form over the course of a five-year term?
Korpisalo will be in his mid-30s when his new contract expires, so the Senators are betting that he will continue to improve in the latter stages of his prime, before the deal becomes untenable towards the final two years.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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