{"id":444042,"date":"2026-02-03T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:19:09","slug":"penguins-terminating-contract-of-wbs-goalie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444042\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Terminating Contract of WBS Goalie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With their goaltending situation looking solid at both the NHL and AHL levels, the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday put goalie Filip Larsson on waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract.<\/p>\n

Stuart Skinner and Arturs Silovs are manning the position at the NHL level. Two top goalie prospects, Sergei Murashov and Joel Blomqvist, are getting the majority of the time with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League. <\/p>\n

Terminating Larsson\u2019s contract \u2014 which runs just through the end of this season \u2014 would give him a chance to find a better opportunity elsewhere rather than perhaps a demotion to Wheeling of the ECHL.<\/p>\n

Larsson, 27, was a sixth-round draft pick by Detroit in 2016. He had a strong season in Sweden in 2023-24, going 19-9-0 for Leksands, with a 1.93 goals-against average and .920 save percentage. That made him attractive enough for the Penguins to sign him to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n

He played 26 games for WBS last season, going 12-9-3 (2.84, .910). This season \u2014 in addition to traveling to Sweden as the Penguins\u2019 third goalie for two games there \u2014 Larsson has served as the third goalie in the AHL and appeared in just nine games, going 3-2-1 (3.51, .876).<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: Filip Larsson<\/a> Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> Shelly Anderson<\/a> <\/p>\n

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