{"id":295730,"date":"2026-09-28T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295730\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:28:07","slug":"penguins-finalize-2026-27-roster-ahead-of-season-opening-game-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295730\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins finalize 2026-27 roster ahead of season-opening game in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas announced the team\u2019s season-opening roster Monday. The group includes 13 forwards, seven defensemen and two goaltenders.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the team:<\/p>\n<p>Forwards \u2014 Egor Chinakhov, Sidney Crosby, Connor Dewar, David Gustafsson, Filip Hallander, Ville Koivunen, Hendrix Lapierre, Evgeni Malkin, Rutger McGroarty, Tommy Novak, Rickard Rakell, Nick Robertson and Elmer Soderblom<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen \u2014 Declan Carlile, Sam Girard, Erik Karlsson, Kaedan Korczak, Kris Letang, Ilya Solovyov and Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders \u2014 Sergei Murashov and Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Justin Brazeau, Ben Kindel, Blake Lizotte and Bryan Rust and defenseman Ryan Graves have been placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Tristan Broz, Melvin Fernstrom and Oliver Okuliar and goaltender Gabriel D\u2019Aigle have been designated as injured non-roster, and forward Andrei Kuzmenko has been designated as non-roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins open the regular season against the Flyers at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas announced the team\u2019s season-opening roster Monday. The group includes 13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-295730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295730","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=295730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}