{"id":144906,"date":"2026-03-21T22:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144906\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:25:22","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-sign-goalie-prospect-gabriel-daigle-to-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144906\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins sign goalie prospect Gabriel D&#8217;Aigle to entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed goalie prospect Gabriel D&#8217;Aigle to a three-year, entry-level contract, the team announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The contract will begin in the 2026-27 season and run through the 2028-29 season. The 19-year-old was drafted by Pittsburgh in the third round (84th overall) of the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Aigle, listed at 6-foot-4 and 211 pounds, has appeared in 39 games for the Victoriaville Tigres of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League during the 2025-26 season, posting a 14-21-3 record and a .908 save percentage, facing a league-high 37.1 shots per game. His .908 save percentage is ninth in the league, according to a media release provided by the Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>He was also named QMJHL Player of the Week for the week ending Nov. 17 after going undefeated with a 1.50 GAA and .950 save percentage across two games. Since Nov. 1, D&#8217;Aigle has recorded a .920 save percentage, helping Victoriaville qualify for the 2025-26 QMJHL playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Aigle has played parts of four seasons for the Victoriaville Tigres from 2022-26, compiling a 56-66-7 total record with four shutouts in 140 career regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>The Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, native also has international experience, playing for Team Canada in the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and winning a gold medal. He also played for Team Canada in the 2023 World Under-18 Championship, winning the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed goalie prospect Gabriel D&#8217;Aigle to a three-year, entry-level contract, the team announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4843,73,75,74,1067],"class_list":{"0":"post-144906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}