{"id":87805,"date":"2020-10-03T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87805"},"modified":"2020-10-03T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T16:26:53","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-re-sign-tristan-jarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/03\/pittsburgh-penguins-re-sign-tristan-jarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Re-Sign Tristan Jarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> have signed goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jarrytr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tristan Jarry<\/a><\/strong> to a new contract. The deal comes just days before the draft and the start of free agency. The new contract will carry Jarry through the 2022-23 season with an annual cap hit of $3.5 million. The team announced the signing late Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Penguins have re-signed goaltender Tristan Jarry to a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The contract will run through the 2022.23 season and carry an average annual value of $3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Full details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MEtTQ0aOu0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/MEtTQ0aOu0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7heuD75OPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/7heuD75OPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/1312411095370534913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Penguins Re-Sign Tristan Jarry<\/h2>\n<p>Jarry was the far more productive Pens goaltender in 2019-20. He outperformed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrama02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Murray<\/a><\/strong> by a wide margin with a .921 save percentage and 2.43 goals-against-average while playing only 70 fewer minutes over the course of the regular season. Jarry was also the better player in the playoffs with a .952 save percentage and 1.02 goals-against but the team leaned on Murray for three starts compared to Jarry&#8217;s one. The 24-year-old definitely earned this raise.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins drafted Jarry in the second round of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft and he has played in portions of the previous four seasons. His debut came in 2016-17 but wasn&#8217;t until 2017-18 that he really got tested in the NHL. That is the year he played in 26 games with a .908 save percentage and 2.77 goals-against. He spent almost the entire 2018-19 season in the AHL with Pittsburgh&#8217;s affiliate in Wilkes-Barre-Scranton before finally making the team full-time this past season. He now seems poised to be the team&#8217;s starter going into 2020-21 after this new deal.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Jarry has done everything to seize the starting role. He is not the tallest goaltending option at just 6&#8217;2&#8243; but that hasn&#8217;t prevented him from turning in good numbers in almost every season since leaving the Canadian junior ranks. It is likely that Jarry will start with veteran backup <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/desmica01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey DeSmith<\/a><\/strong> supporting him. If that is indeed Pittsburgh&#8217;s main duo for 2020-21, then Matt Murray should be a strong trade chip. The 26-year-old struggled last season but still has plenty of time in his career to recapture what made him a Calder Trophy candidate in 2016-17. It just probably won&#8217;t be as a Penguin.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh still has several decisions to make on players like Murray, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/simondo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dominik Simon<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/laffesa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Lafferty<\/a><\/strong>. They have been one of the league&#8217;s busiest teams of the past few weeks and that will likely continue. Expect a trade or two to clear cap space as the team only has $2.6 million to spend with the new Jarry contract.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"UoN5coJoRYpobFT8KgxAdA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1207242357\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'UoN5coJoRYpobFT8KgxAdA',sig:'mW-GeuLc6Bub4n6aQwoyI8x6UVKYw9IEuli_RNZ06dQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1207242357',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed goaltender Tristan Jarry to a new contract. The deal comes just days before the draft and the start of free agency. The new contract will carry Jarry through the 2022-23 season with an annual cap hit of $3.5 million. The team announced the signing late Saturday morning. 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