- Penguins sign goaltender Arturs Silovs to a one-year, $2.8 million contract
- Silovs pushed Pittsburgh’s first-round series against the Flyers to six games after the team fell behind 0-3
- Read below for the numbers and Pittsburgh’s busy Sunday on the signing front
The Penguins are keeping their playoff surprise around.
Pittsburgh signed goaltender Arturs Silovs to a one-year, $2.8 million contract on Sunday, locking up a restricted free agent who stole the spotlight in the spring.
Here’s the club making it official:
Silovs earned the raise the hard way.
When Pittsburgh fell behind 0-3 to the Flyers in the first round, the Penguins handed him the net. He won Games 4 and 5 to drag the series back to Philadelphia.
It ended in Game 6, a 1-0 overtime loss where Silovs stopped 31 shots. Daily Faceoff called him Pittsburgh’s playoff X-factor, and it was tough to argue.
The regular season was more of a grind. Silovs went 19-12-8 in 39 games with an .887 save percentage and a 3.07 goals-against average since arriving from Vancouver. The numbers aren’t pretty, but the workload tells you the Penguins trust him.
He’s done this before. Silovs became a folk hero in Vancouver during the 2024 playoffs, stepping in as an emergency starter and dragging the Canucks to within a game of the conference final. Pittsburgh is betting that goalie shows up again.
Sunday was busy for the front office. The Penguins also locked up forward Egor Chinakhov on a three-year deal, along with depth pieces David Gustafsson and goaltender Joel Blomqvist.
Silovs and Blomqvist now give Pittsburgh a young tandem to sort through. For a club in the middle of a reset, a $2.8 million bet on a goalie who already owns a signature playoff run is easy money.
