{"id":800383,"date":"2026-07-14T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800383\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:07:08","slug":"forward-nick-robertson-pittsburgh-penguins-avoid-arbitration-with-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800383\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward Nick Robertson, Pittsburgh Penguins avoid arbitration with two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> and Nick Robertson have avoided arbitration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team has signed the restricted free-agent forward to a two-year, $6.5 million contract that carries a cap hit of $3.25 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Robertson, 24, was acquired by the Penguins on July 1 in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. Going the other way was a fourth-round selection in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Robertson had 16 goals and 32 points in 78 games with the Leafs last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 5-foot-9 winger is coming off a one-year, $1.825 million contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 53rd overall by the Maple Leafs in 2019, Robertson has 48 goals and 88 points in 234 career games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pasadena, Cali., native represented the United States at the 2020 World Juniors in a sixth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Robertson is the younger brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jason-robertson\/8480027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jason-robertson\/8480027\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Robertson<\/a>. He has an arbitration date set with the Stars on July 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins and Nick Robertson have avoided arbitration. The team has signed the restricted free-agent forward to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,131858,131728,85,154749],"class_list":["post-800383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-nick-robertson-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1169776","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800383","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=800383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}