{"id":379919,"date":"2025-12-30T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379919\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:24:10","slug":"penguins-to-place-ryan-graves-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379919\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins To Place Ryan Graves On Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

After acquiring Yegor Chinakhov<\/a> earlier today, the Penguins needed to open up a spot on their active roster for him.\u00a0 They\u2019ve determined how to do that as Seth Rorabaugh of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that the team has designated defenseman Ryan Graves<\/a> as a non-roster player and will place him on waivers on Tuesday when the next waiver period opens.<\/p>\n

This will be the second time of the season that the 30-year-old will land on the waiver wire.\u00a0 Graves also found himself on waivers during training camp as he was among Pittsburgh\u2019s last group of training camp cuts.<\/p>\n

Despite passing through unclaimed and starting the season with AHL Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, Graves has actually spent more time in Pittsburgh than with them.\u00a0 He got into 10 games at the minor league level to start the year and was productive, picking up a goal and six assists.\u00a0 That earned him a recall in early November and has been up since then, a stint that\u2019s about to come to an end.<\/p>\n

Graves has played in 17 games with Pittsburgh this season, albeit in a limited role as he\u2019s barely averaging 15 minutes per night of ice time.\u00a0 In those outings, he has just one point \u2013 a goal \u2013 along with 31 blocked shots.\u00a0 While offense has never been his calling card, it\u2019s fair to say that Graves isn\u2019t living up to his $4.5MM per season contract, one that runs through the 2028-29 campaign.<\/p>\n

Given that price tag, it\u2019s a certainty that Graves will once again pass through unclaimed and be sent back down to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton where he\u2019ll join Mathew Dumba<\/a> on a high-priced AHL back end.\u00a0 From there, he\u2019ll look to work his way back to Pittsburgh, an outcome that could happen should the Penguins move any of their pending UFA blueliners, a group that includes Connor Clifton<\/a>, Brett Kulak<\/a>, and Ryan Shea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After acquiring Yegor Chinakhov earlier today, the Penguins needed to open up a spot on their active roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,4785,176098,85,206,86513],"class_list":{"0":"post-379919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","12":"tag-ryan-graves","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-transactions","15":"tag-waivers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}