Kyle Dubas won’t be in the dark to exactly how much cap room the Penguins will have this offseason with official numbers being revealed by the NHL on Wednesday. The salary cap ceiling for 2026-27 will be set at $104 million, an almost 9% increase from last season. Figuring in all the money that will be coming off the books this summer, the Penguins are projected to have roughly $46 million in cap space and needing to add almost $20 million just to reach the cap floor, leaving Dubas with plenty of space to work
with this offseason. [Pensburgh]
Pens Points…
Dubas will have a lot of salary cap room to work with this offseason and it’s important that he apply it wisely to his squad for next season. While it may be enticing to throw big money around in free agency, the much more prudent move is to swing big on the trade market. [Pensburgh]
Often times, when it’s said a player just needs a change of scenery it serves more as a nicer way of saying a player just isn’t that good. Egor Chinakhov flipped that old adage on its head after breaking out following his trade to Pittsburgh and playing like the first round selection he was. [Trib Live]
There is a lot of goalies in the Penguins system at the moment and at some point the damn is going to have to break. While most of the talk surrounds Sergei Murashov as the future in goal, there is another netminder in Wilkes-Barre who is still charting his own path as well. [Trib Live]
Unless something changes over the next few weeks, the Penguins will have a first round pick in the upcoming NHL Draft. Where that pick sits we do not yet know, but scouting for the draft is will underway with the U18 tournament wrapping up across the pond last week. [Pensburgh]
NHL News and Notes…
Wednesday was Selke Trophy day for the NHL award announcements and with this year’s finalists, we are guaranteed to have a first time winner. Anthony Cirelli picks up his second Selke nomination following last season while Brock Nelson and Nick Suzuki check in as first time finalists. [NHL]
Expansion is coming for the PWHL with Detroit being awarded the league’s newest franchise set to being play next season. Detroit is expected to be just the first of four potential expansion teams as the league evaluates other cities across North America to award a new franchise. [ESPN]
