{"id":472426,"date":"2025-07-13T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=472426"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T20:29:56","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-acquire-signed-one-year-rfa-silovs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/13\/pittsburgh-penguins-acquire-signed-one-year-rfa-silovs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Acquire Young Vancouver Canucks Goaltender"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Penguins make a trade with the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, sending Chase Stillman and pick to acquire goaltender Arturs Silovs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Silovs is a 24-year-old 2019 sixth-round pick. He’s played in 19 NHL games across the past three seasons, with a combined record of 8-8-2.<\/p>\n

The Vancouver Story<\/h2>\n

For the Vancouver Canucks, the emergence of Kevin Lankinen<\/a> pushed Arturs Silovs aside in the organizational depth chart. The organization has already been employing star goaltender Thatcher Demko<\/a> for a number of years. With his persistent injury concerns, the Canucks diversified their goaltending pipeline to ensure a quality netminder in Demko’s absence. While both Silovs and Lankinen got chances at the NHL level in 2024-25, Lankinen stole the show. He went 25-15-10, acting as the starter in Demko’s stead. Lankinen signed a five-year extension valued at a $4.5m AAV. As the 2025 Free Agency period was set to open, the Canucks then extended Thatcher Demko<\/a>. His deal runs from 2026-27 to 2028-29, with an AAV of $8.5m per season. These moves made Silovs redundant in the Canucks system.<\/p>\n

In Chase Stillman, the Canucks acquire the rights to a career-AHL winger. Stillman split 65 games between the Wilkes-Barre Penguins and Utica Comet in 2024-25. In these games, the former first-round pick scored four goals and eight assists for 12 points. In addition to Stillman, the Canucks get a 2027 fourth-round pick, adding to the two they already had.<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Story<\/h2>\n

This is certainly an interesting move from the Penguins’ end. It comes off the back<\/a> of the Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> trade. Goaltender Nedeljkovic was moved to the San Jose Sharks for a 2028 third-round pick. This left the Penguins professional pipeline a little light. Tristan Jarry<\/a> will be the starting netminder for the team in 2025-26. However, the backup position is wide open. Competing with Silovs will be young prospects Joel Blomqvist<\/a> and Sergei Murashov. Blomqvist went 8-7-3 with the Wilkes-Barre Penguins last season, posting a .914 save percentage. Behind him, Sergei Murashov has quickly increased his stock as a prospect. Debuting in North America last season, Murashov spent time in the ECHL and AHL. After going 17-7-1 with the Wheeling Nailers, Murashov would go 12-3 in his limited appearances with the Wilkes-Barre Penguins.<\/p>\n

The addition of Calder Cup Champion Arturs Silovs ensures a ton of competition at this years training camp. Silovs and Blomqvist will battle it out for an NHL back-up position, while Murashov looks to cement himself as an AHL back-up. With NHL starter Tristan Jarry<\/a>‘s struggles in recent years, there exists an opportunity for Silovs or the other goaltenders to fight for additional minutes as well.<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: Bob Frid-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Penguins make a trade with the Vancouver Canucks, sending Chase Stillman and pick to acquire goaltender Arturs Silovs. Silovs is a 24-year-old 2019 sixth-round pick. He’s played in 19 NHL games across the past three seasons, with a combined record of 8-8-2. The Vancouver Story For the Vancouver Canucks, the emergence of Kevin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5231,"featured_media":472429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4547,34,4548,26],"tags":[7417,4979,6022,477,5820],"class_list":["post-472426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-canucks","tag-arturs-silovs","tag-joel-blomqvist","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-news","tag-tristan-jarry","tag-vancouver-canucks-news"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472431,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472426\/revisions\/472431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}