announced the transaction on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\nAlexeyev, 26, joined the Pittsburgh Penguins as an unrestricted free agent signing during the 2025 offseason, agreeing to a one-year contract worth $775,000.<\/p>\n
After clearing waivers on Oct. 5, Alexeyev was assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton and remained with that team for the bulk of the season. Appearing in 38 games, he scored 12 points (three goals, nine assists).<\/p>\n
A left-handed shot, Alexeyev (6-foot-4, 230 pounds) was briefly recalled to the NHL roster on March 12 but did not appear in any games with the Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n
With regard to the NHL status, the Penguins will retain his rights after extending him a qualifying offer last week.<\/p>\n
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Alexeyev previously played for Salavat Yulaev Ufa during the 2020-21 season. Alexeyev was a first-round draft pick (No. 31 overall) of the Washington Capitals in 2018 and spent parts of four NHL seasons with that team before joining the Penguins.<\/p>\n
Following this transaction, the Penguins hold the NHL rights to seven unsigned restricted free agents who have not signed with a European team:<\/p>\n
Forwards \u2014 Egor Chinakhov, David Gustafsson, Ville Koivunen, Hendrix Lapierre, Nick Robertson<\/p>\n
Goaltenders \u2014 Joel Blomqvist, Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Additionally, there are two players who finished the 2025-26 season under NHL contract with the Penguins who have yet to sign elsewhere in forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard and Anthony Mantha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenseman Alex Alexeyev, who spent last season in the American Hockey League with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, has signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-233699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699","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=233699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}