{"id":838614,"date":"2026-07-31T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:32:09","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-sign-tommy-novak-to-three-year-13-95-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838614\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins sign Tommy Novak to three-year, $13.95 million contract extension"},"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> have signed forward Tommy Novak to a three-year, $13.95 million contract extension that carries a cap hit of $4.65 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The contract begins in the 2027-28 season and will run through 2029-30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old has one more year on his previous deal, which is set to pay him $3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Novak recorded 16 goals and 26 assists for 42 points in 82 games with the Penguins last season. He added two assists in six playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has played 285 career NHL games with the Penguins and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a>, registering 65 goals and 159 points. His best season came in 2023-24 with Nashville, when he scored 18 goals and 45 points in 71 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Novak also represented Team USA at the IIHF World Championship in 2026, recording a team-high seven assists and eight points in eight games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The St. Paul, Minn., native was selected 85th overall by the Predators in the 2015 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Tommy Novak to a three-year, $13.95 million contract extension that carries a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,75017,82,292270],"class_list":["post-838614","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-thomas-novak-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478438"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838614","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=838614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}