{"id":79104,"date":"2026-01-06T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79104\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:48:09","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-defenceman-egor-zamula-on-unconditional-waivers-for-contract-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79104\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Egor Zamula on unconditional waivers for contract termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/egor-zamula\/8481178\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/egor-zamula\/8481178\" target=\"_blank\">Egor Zamula<\/a> is on unconditional waivers for contract termination, according to TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He will become an unrestricted free agent tomorrow if he goes unclaimed. Johnston reports that Zamula has multiple NHL teams interested in him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An undrafted free agent, Zamula signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in September of 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was traded to Pittsburgh on Dec. 31 in exchange for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/philip-tomasino\/8481577\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/philip-tomasino\/8481577\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Tomasino<\/a> and was suspended shortly after for failing to report to the AHL\u2019s Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Egor Zamula (PIT) is on unconditional waivers for a contract termination &#8212; he&#8217;ll become an unrestricted free agent tomorrow if unclaimed, and has multiple interested NHL suitors<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/2008252625209487472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zamula had one assist in 13 games with the Flyers this season and two assists in three games with the AHL\u2019s Lehigh Valley Phantoms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old is in the second season of a two-year, $3.4 million contract with an AAV of $1.7 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Chelyabinsk, Russia native has appeared in 168 career NHL games, scoring eight goals with 41 points, all with the Flyers. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Egor Zamula is on unconditional waivers for contract termination, according to TSN Hockey Insider Chris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10268,40298,73,75,74,14882],"class_list":["post-79104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-apple-news","tag-egor-zamula-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481178","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79104","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=79104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}