{"id":782877,"date":"2026-07-06T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782877\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:16:08","slug":"pittsubrgh-penguins-sign-f-chinakhov-three-others-to-new-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782877\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsubrgh Penguins sign F Chinakhov, three others to new contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> have signed pending restricted free agent Egor Chinakhov<\/a> to a three-year, $18.75 million contract that carries an annual cap hit of $6.25 million on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Chinakhov, 25, finished the season with the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> after they acquired him from the Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> in December of 2025 in exchange for forward Danton Heinen<\/a> and two draft picks.<\/p>\n

He registered 21 goals and 42 points in 72 games split between the Blue Jackets and Penguins and did not record a point in six playoff games.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-1 winger is coming off a two-year, $4.2 million contract that carried a cap hit of $2.1 million.<\/p>\n

Drafted 21st overall by the Blue Jackets in 2020, Chinakhov has 55 goals and 113 points in 247 career games split between the Blue Jackets and Penguins.<\/p>\n

The Omsk, Russia, native represented his country at the 2021 World Juniors in a fourth-place finish.<\/p>\n

Penguins sign three more<\/p>\n

The Penguins also signed goaltenders Arturs Silovs<\/a> and Joel Blomqvist, and forward David Gustafsson<\/a> to new deals.<\/p>\n

Silovs signed a one-year, $2.8 million contract for the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-4 netminder went 19-12-8 last season with an .888 save percentage and 3.07 goals-against average with the Penguins. <\/p>\n

He appeared in three playoff games, going 2-1 with a 1.52 GAA and .939 save percentage before the Penguins were eliminated in the first round.<\/p>\n

Silovs was acquired from the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> in July of 2025 in exchange for forward Chase Stillman and a draft pick.<\/p>\n

He is coming off of a two-year, $1.7 million contract that carried a cap hit of $850,000.<\/p>\n

Drafted 156th overall by the Canucks in 2019, Silovs has a career 27-20-10 record with an .886 save percentage and 3.09 GAA split between the Canucks and Penguins.<\/p>\n

Blomqvist, 24, was re-signed on a two-year, $1.75 million contract that carries a cap hit of $875,000.<\/p>\n

He played last season with the AHL\u2019s Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, going 16-5-4 with a .913 save percentage and 2.40 GAA.<\/p>\n

Gustafsson, 26, was a member of the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> organization last season and played with the AHL\u2019s Manitoba Moose, recording 10 goals and 32 points in 48 games.<\/p>\n

He was signed to a one-year, $850,000 deal.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2, left-shot blueliner was drafted 60th overall by the Jets in 2018 and has six goals and 20 points in 149 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed pending restricted free agent Egor Chinakhov to a three-year, $18.75 million contract that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,75017,82,112021],"class_list":["post-782877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5","tag-sports","tag-yegor-chinakhov-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482475"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}