{"id":737374,"date":"2026-07-01T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:12:14","slug":"report-penguins-sign-free-agent-defenseman-trevor-van-riemsdyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737374\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Penguins sign free agent defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">AFP Projection: $2.36 million AAV for two years<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">van Riemsdyk turns 35 next month, not sure how much appetite the Penguins would have with a two-year contract for him but he\u2019s got some size (6\u20193\u201d, 210 pounds) and 751 games of experience that would add some depth to shore up the right side of their defense with skating ability and a history of strong defensive impacts. The Penguins don\u2019t currently have that many defenseman in a \u20185\/6\u2019 type of role that could shade more into being used as a \u20185\u2019, van Riemsdyk could be a nice short-term patch and insurance if 20-year old Harrison Brunicke needs more AHL developmental time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP Projection: $2.36 million AAV for two years van Riemsdyk turns 35 next month, not sure how much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[257,385,99],"class_list":["post-737374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-general","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}