The Pittsburgh Penguins have avoided arbitration with four eligible players, agreeing to new contracts for forwards Egor Chinakhov and David Gustafsson, plus goaltenders Arturs Silovs and Joel Blomqvist.<\/p>\n
Chinakhov, 25, signed a three-year deal, which runs through the 2028-29 season and carries an average annual value of $6.25 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is coming off the best season of his professional career. setting new highs in games played (72), goals (21), assists (21) and points (42) split between Columbus and Pittsburgh, according to a news release from the Penguins.<\/p>\n
Chinakhov tallied 18 goals and 36 points in 43 games with Pittsburgh after the trade, and his goal and point totals both ranked third on the Penguins in that span.<\/p>\n
The newly acquired Gustafsson agreed to a one-year contract through the 2026-27 season and carries an average annual value of $850,000 at the NHL level.<\/p>\n
Gustafsson spent the 2025-26 season with the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League, recording 10 goals, 22 assists, 32 points across 48 games.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old has spent the last seven seasons in the Winnipeg Jets organization (2019-26), split between the Jets and the Moose. At the NHL level, Gustafsson has played in 149 career regular-season games, where he’s accumulated six career goals and 20 points. At the AHL level, he’s notched 34 goals and 91 points in 136 career regular-season games.<\/p>\n
Gustafsson was drafted by Winnipeg in the second round (60th overall) of the 2018 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
Silovs’ one-year deal runs through the upcoming 2026-27 season and carries an average annual value of $2.8 million, while Blomqvist’s two-year deal runs through the 2027-28 season and carries an average annual value of $875,000 at the NHL level.<\/p>\n
Silovs, 25, played in 39 games last year, going 19-12-8 with a 3.07 goals-against average and two shutouts. His 39 games played, 19 wins and two shutouts were all career highs. In the Stanley Cup Playoffs, he went 2-1 with a 1.52 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage in three games.<\/p>\n
Blomqvist, 24, is coming off his third season with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League in 2025-26, compiling a record of 16-5-6 with a 2.40 goals-against average, .913 save percentage and one shutout in 26 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The goaltender has played in 15 career NHL games, all with Pittsburgh, posting a 4-9-1 record since his NHL debut during the 2024-25 season. In the AHL, Blomqvist has played in 91 career games, going 49-26-16 with a .916 save percentage, 2.38 goals-against average and three shutouts.<\/p>\n