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Penguins goaltending prospect Taylor Gauthier signs AHL deal with Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonVideo
Goaltending prospect Taylor Gauthier has signed a one-year American Hockey League (AHL) contract with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. This signing comes after the Pittsburgh Penguins opted to not extend a qualifying offer to Gauthier as a pending restricted free agent on Monday with regards to his NHL rights. That decision allowed...
Penguins sign former Oilers defenseman Phil KempVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed defenseman Phil Kemp to a two-year, two-way contract with a salary cap hit of $775,000. No announcement has been made by the team but Kemp was added to the NHL’s media website on Wednesday morning while Puckpedia had the financial terms of his new contract....
Penguins sign forward Anthony Mantha to 1-year contractVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Anthony Mantha to a one-year contract that carries a salary cap hit of $2.5 million. The deal also offers a performance bonus of up to $2 million. According to Puckpedia, Mantha can collect bonuses of $250,000 for every 10th game he plays in up...
Former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Jimmy Huntington signs with Sharks
Former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Jimmy Huntington has signed a one-year, two-way contract with the San Jose Sharks. Financial terms were not announced but deals such as this typically carry a salary cap hit of $775,000. The Pittsburgh Penguins signed Huntington to a one-year, two-way contract with a salary cap hit...
Penguins trade away goalie Alex Nedeljkovic, avoid big-ticket items on 1st day of free agency
Alex Nedeljkovic was under no misconceptions as to how the offseason might unfold. His gig as the Pittsburgh Penguins primary backup goaltender was far from secure. “At the end of the day, it’s a business,” Nedeljkovic said during the team’s season-ending interviews April 18 in Cranberry. “(Management is) going to...
Penguins sign defenseman Caleb Jones to 2-year contract
The Pittsburgh Penguins signed defenseman Caleb Jones to a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $900,000. Jones, 28, spent the 2024-25 season with the Los Angeles Kings organization, primarily at the American Hockey League level. In six NHL games, the left-hander did not record a point while averaging...
Report: Penguins sign forward Justin Brazeau to 2-year contractVideo
According to Puckpedia, the Pittsburgh Penguins signed unrestricted free-agent forward Justin Brazeau to a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $1.5 million on Tuesday. The 27-year-old Brazeau (pronounced BRAZ-oh) split the 2024-25 campaign between the Boston Bruins and Minnesota Wild. In total, he played in 76 games last...
Penguins trade goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic to Sharks for 2028 3rd-round pickVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins traded goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic to the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday in exchange for a third-round selection in the 2028 NHL Draft. Nedeljkovic, 29, is entering the final year of a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $2.5 million. Initially joining the Penguins as an...
Penguins re-sign forwards Connor Dewar, Philip TomasinoVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins re-signed forwards Connor Dewar and Philip Tomasino to one-year contracts. Dewar’s salary cap hit is $1.1 million and he is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent following the completion of this contract. Meanwhile, Tomasino will carry a hit of $1.75 million and is scheduled to become...
Ex-Penguins defenseman Nate Clurman signs with CanadiensVideo
Former Penguins defenseman Nate Clurman has signed with the Montreal Canadiens, agreeing to a one-year, two-way contract with a salary cap hit of $775,000. The Penguins signed Clurman to a one-year, two-way contract with an identical salary cap hit last offseason. A sixth-round draft pick (No. 161 overall) of the...
Report: Penguins sign defenseman Parker Wotherspoon for 2 yearsVideo
According to Puckpedia, the Pittsburgh Penguins signed unrestricted free agent defenseman Parker Wotherspoon to a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $1 million. Wotherspoon, who turns 28 on Aug. 24, spent the 2024-25 season with the Boston Bruins. Appearing in a career-high 55 games, the left-handed Wotherspoon scored...
Penguins’ negotiations continue with Conor Dewar, Philip Tomasino
Pittsburgh Penguins forwards Connor Dewar and Philip Tomasino did not receive qualifying offers as pending restricted free agents by the NHL’s deadline to extend such offers at 5 p.m. Monday. But that does not necessarily mean they will be leaving the club. Earlier in the day, Penguins president of hockey...
Penguins president Kyle Dubas doesn’t expect to be aggressive in free agency
Kyle Dubas was beaming about his club’s future. In a somewhat ostentatious presentation by the Pittsburgh Penguins at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry on Monday, Dubas stood up on the stage constructed on the main rink of the facility and showcased each member of the Penguins draft class from...
Penguins hire Mike Stothers as assistant coach
The Pittsburgh Penguins hired Mike Stothers as an assistant coach. That appointment was announced Monday. Stothers, 63, is expected to oversee the team’s defensemen and penalty kill. A native of Toronto, Stothers has an extensive history as a coach at various levels, starting in 1991 when he was an assistant...
Penguins 3rd-round pick Charlie Trethewey’s journey brings him back to PittsburghVideo
Charlie Trethewey will be somewhere familiar later this week. The UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. He has been in the auxiliary dressing room adjacent to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ portion of the facility. The five Stanley Cup banners, the pictures of Western Pennsylvanians who have reached the NHL and the...
The Penguins’ rebuild accelerates after drafting 13 players
It hasn’t even been a year since Wes Clark was hired as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ vice president of player personnel. Brought on staff July 9, 2024, Clark was reunited with president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas, with whom he worked in previous stops with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Sault...
West Mifflin native L.J. Mooney drafted by Canadiens in 4th round
The Montreal Canadiens selected forward L.J. Mooney, a native of West Mifflin, in the fourth round (No. 113 overall) of the NHL Draft on Saturday. Last season, Mooney skated in 51 games for the United States National Team Development Program’s under-18 squad and scored 51 points (10 goals, 41 assists)....
NHL Draft Day 2: Penguins add 2 defensemen, goalie with trio of picks in 3rd round
With the 73rd overall pick in the third round of the NHL Draft Saturday, the Pittsburgh Penguins selected defenseman Charlie Trethewey from USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program. Trethewey, 17, is a right-shooting prospect who hails from Ellicott City, Md. A 6-foot-2, 201-pound defenseman, he will begin his collegiate career...
Penguins acquire defenseman Connor Clifton, 2nd-round pick in trade with Sabres
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired defenseman Connor Clifton and a second-round selection (No. 39 overall) in the ongoing NHL Draft from the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday in exchange for defenseman Conor Timmins and defensive prospect Isaac Belliveau. With that draft pick, the Penguins selected defenseman Peyton Kettles from the Western Hockey...
Penguins enter second day of NHL draft with 8 remaining picks
The Pittsburgh Penguins enter the second day of the NHL draft on Saturday with eight remaining selections, barring any trades. Those selections: Third round — No. 73 overall Third round — No. 84 overall (from the Minnesota Wild via the Philadelphia Flyers and Nashville Predators) Third round — No. 85...
Penguins president Kyle Dubas sought to add quality and quantity through the draft
Kyle Dubas certainly had a route mapped out as he steered the Pittsburgh Penguins through the first night of the NHL Draft on Friday. That plan had plenty of detours and divergences in the form of multiple trades that he made (and was unable to make). In the end, the...
Penguins draft productive forward Bill Zonnon No. 22 overallVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins selected forward Bill Zonnon with the 22nd overall selection in the NHL Draft on Friday. A native of Montreal, the left-handed Zonnon (6-foot-2, 185 pounds) appeared in 64 games last season for the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League and scored 83 points (28...
Penguins trade No. 12 overall draft pick to Flyers for No. 22 and 31
The Pittsburgh Penguins traded the N0. 12 overall selection in the ongoing NHL draft to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for the 22nd and 31 overall selections. This selection (No. 12) was originally property of the New York Rangers and was transferred to the Penguins on Tuesday. The Penguins acquired...
Don’t expect Penguins president Kyle Dubas to use all his draft picks
At the end of the business day March 7 — or at least as it pertains to the NHL’s trade deadline that afternoon — Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas offered something of an inventory of all the draft picks he had accumulated after jettisoning several veterans from the...
Penguins A to Z (and back to I): A late-round draft pick on Mikhail Ilyin appears to pay offVideo
With the Pittsburgh Penguins entering the offseason for a third consecutive year without a playoff appearance, TribLive will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 58 individuals signed to an NHL contract — including those whose deals do not begin until future seasons — with the organization....
