Ottawa gets Derick Brassard

The New York Rangers traded center Derick Brassard to the Ottawa Senators for forward Mika Zibanejad in a deal involving players coming off career seasons. The deal includes draft picks with the Rangers receiving the Senators’ second-round draft pick in 2018; Ottawa will get the Rangers’ seventh-round pick that year. Zibanejad skated in 81 games with Ottawa with 21 goals and 30 assists. He established career highs in games played, goals, assists, points, game-winning goals (seven), and faceoff win rate (50.5 percent). He has scored at least 20 goals in each of the past two seasons. The 28-year-old Brassard, who is returning to his hometown, had a career-high 27 goals and finished second on the team with 58 points in 80 games last season. His 31 assists were 10 fewer than the previous season . . . The Sharks signed Matt Nieto to a one-year contract. The 23-year-old forward was a restricted free agent, whose rights were retained by the Sharks last month. He had eight goals and nine assists in 67 games, while also playing a penalty-killing role last season . . . P.K. Subbancertainly knows how to make an entrance, especially with a team more than happy to help manage his arrival in Music City. The Nashville Predators took their new All-Star defenseman on a whirlwind trip around town that featured Subban jumping on stage at a renowned honky-tonk to belt out Johnny Cash’s ‘‘Folsom Prison Blues.’’ Then the Predators introduced Subban to reporters and a few fans Monday in their first chance to show off the man they picked up last month in Nashville’s big trade with Montreal.