{"id":306538,"date":"2026-06-13T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306538\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:29:06","slug":"florida-panthers-trade-with-penguins-for-defenseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306538\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers Trade with Penguins for Defenseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers added to their organizational depth Saturday by swinging a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Emil Pieniniemi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers gave up the rights to forward Oliver Okuliar in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Pieniniemi, 21, has only played one season of North American pro hockey \u2014 and split it between the ECHL Wheeling Nailers and the AHL Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>He did spend two seasons playing professionally in the Finnish Liiga, appearing in 39 games with Karpat.<\/p>\n<p>Pieniniemi was originally a third-round pick of the Penguins in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>ON DECK: FLORIDA PANTHERS\u00a0OFFSEASON<\/p>\n<p>NHL Draft (9th in First Round, Seven Picks Overall):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/nhl-draft-lottery-maple-leafs-win-sharks-get-second-florida-panthers-pick-9th\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 26-27; KeyBank Center, Buffalo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NHL Free Agency:\u00a0Opens July 1<\/p>\n<p>Panthers Development Camp:\u00a0Late June\/Early July; IcePlex, Fort Lauderdale<\/p>\n<p>Panthers Rookie Camp\/Tournament:\u00a0Late August\/Early Sept.; Site TBA<\/p>\n<p>Panthers Training Camp:\u00a0Early\/Mid September; Fort Lauderdale\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2026-27 NHL Season Opens:\u00a0Late September; Site, Opponent TBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers added to their organizational depth Saturday by swinging a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128115,28,30,29,16995,15951,128116,15952],"class_list":["post-306538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-emil-pieninemi","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-nhl-trade","tag-oliver-okuliar","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}