{"id":418535,"date":"2026-01-20T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/418535\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:06:10","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-acquire-d-solovyov-from-colorado-avalanche-for-f-puustinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/418535\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins acquire D Solovyov from Colorado Avalanche for F Puustinen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> acquired defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ilya-solovyov\/8482470\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ilya-solovyov\/8482470\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya Solovyov<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> on Tuesday in exchange for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/valtteri-puustinen\/8481703\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/valtteri-puustinen\/8481703\" target=\"_blank\">Valtteri Puustinen<\/a> and a 2026 seventh-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Solovyov has one goal and three points in 16 games with the Avalanche this season. He has also appeared in three AHL games with the Colorado Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old is a pending restricted free agent and carries an average annual value of $775,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A seventh-round pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> in 2020, Solovyov has one goal and seven points in 31 career NHL games with the Flames and Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Puustinen has seven goals and 26 points in 35 games with the AHL\u2019s Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old winger last appeared in an NHL game with the Penguins in 2024-25, playing 13 games. He has seven goals and 24 points over 66 career games with the NHL club, which drafted him in the seventh round of the 2019 draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/tradecentre\/trade-tracker\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/tradecentre\/trade-tracker\/\">Follow every deal leading into the March 6 trade deadline on TSN.ca.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired defenceman Ilya Solovyov from the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday in exchange for forward Valtteri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,33752,5,52290,4,32614],"class_list":{"0":"post-418535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-colorado-avalanche-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-21","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-ilya-solovyov-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482470","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115929467646177771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}