Jarventie had close to a point per game in the AHL last season with the Belleville Senators.

Two weeks after the start of free agency, most of the NHL seemed to be quietly slipping into vacation mode. Not the Ottawa Senators. 

Moments after announcing the re-signing of goalie Mads Sogaard to a two-year deal on Monday, the Senators made a trade with the Edmonton Oilers and gave up a pretty solid prospect.

They've traded 21-year-old Finnish forward Roby Järventie and a fourth-round draft pick in 2025 for forwards Xavier Bourgault and Jake Chiasson. Bourgault was chosen by the Oilers in the first round of the 2021 NHL Draft.

Järventie underwent knee surgery in New York in February to correct a problem that had been hampering him for several years.

"It's unfortunate for him," Belleville head coach David Bell told the Belleville Sens Entertainment Network. "It's just a nagging knee that they've tried to band-aid along the last couple of years, and it just got to the point where he needed surgery to get this thing completely fixed.

"So it'll be a long off-season for him, but hopefully he comes back the player that he was when he left."

Järventie was drafted by the Senators 33rd overall in the very lucrative 2020 NHL Draft. He made his NHL debut in November, playing seven games for Ottawa, registering one point.

Järventie was a standout at Sens training camp and registered nearly a point a game in the AHL (20 points in 22 games) – all on a sore knee.

Now, on to the newest Ottawa Senators.

Bourgault was drafted 22^nd overall by Edmonton in the first round of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. The 21-year-old spent last season in the AHL with the Bakersfield Condors. In 55 games, Bourgault scored eight goals and 20 points.

Chiasson was also drafted by the Oilers in the 2021 Draft (fourth round). He played mostly in the ECHL last season with the Fort Wayne Komets. In 68 games, he had nine goals and 20 points. Chiasson was drafted out of the Western Hockey League, where he was a teammate of Senators' forward Ridly Greig and Belleville forward Cole Reinhardt.

At a glance, neither incoming player seems to be as bright an NHL prospect as Jarventie is. But you never know what's happening behind the scenes. Sometimes, there are trade requests, future considerations, or other things we don't know.

GM Steve Staios, who spent the 2022-23 season with the Oilers' hockey ops department, would also probably have some good intel on both players.