{"id":547386,"date":"2026-04-08T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:04:25","slug":"penguins-recall-sergei-murashov-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547386\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Recall Sergei Murashov \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Penguins announced Tuesday that they\u2019ve formalized goaltender Sergei Murashov<\/a>\u2018s recall from AHL Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton. Fellow netminder\u00a0Taylor Gauthier<\/a>\u00a0was returned to ECHL Wheeling in the corresponding move after he was called up at the last minute to serve as Arturs Silovs<\/a>\u2018 backup for Sunday\u2019s win over the Panthers.<\/p>\n

Murashov\u2019s recall indicates\u00a0that Stuart Skinner<\/a>\u00a0will remain unavailable as the Penguins return to\u00a0action against the Devils on Thursday. He took a puck to the eye while on the bench backing up Silovs during the first half of Pittsburgh\u2019s weekend back-to-back with Florida, forcing the latter to make two starts within 24 hours. They weren\u2019t able to get Murashov to Pittsburgh in time for puck drop for Sunday\u2019s game, forcing Gauthier to get the nod, but they will now work their third-stringer and top prospect between the pipes back into an NHL role before Skinner is ready to return.<\/p>\n

Murashov, 22, was a fourth-round pick in 2022 but is tracking more like a first-rounder. The 6\u20192\u2033 Russian has posted spectacular numbers at every level in Russia and now the North American minors as he climbs the latter, fully taking over as Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s #1 option this season. In 35 AHL games, he has a .922 SV%, 2.13 GAA, three shutouts, and a 23-8-3 record. He got his first five NHL appearances over a pair of recalls in November and December, logging a more measured .897 SV% and 2.56 GAA. He still managed to record his first big-league shutout, a 21-save win over the Predators back on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n

Skinner will almost certainly be Pittsburgh\u2019s Game 1 starter in the first round later this month if he\u2019s healthy. They haven\u2019t quite clinched a playoff berth yet, but need just one more win to do so and could get some outside help before that\u2019s necessary. As such, there likely won\u2019t be much consideration of resting Silovs to keep him fresh for the postseason. There\u2019s still home-ice advantage on the line. They do have a back-to-back this weekend against the Capitals, though, so it stands to reason Murashov should get one of those starts if Skinner isn\u2019t back by then.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gauthier could be back up in a few weeks\u2019 time to serve as Pittsburgh\u2019s emergency backup in the playoffs. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton has clinched an AHL postseason berth, and the Penguins would certainly prefer Murashov getting high-intensity action there. Gauthier, 25, was on a minor-league deal for most of the season after Pittsburgh non-tendered him last year, but they brought him back on a two-way deal at the trade deadline to make him eligible for a recall. In 33 games with Wheeling, he\u2019s looking to take home his second career ECHL Goalie of the Year award with a .932 SV%, 2.00 GAA, and 20-7-5 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins announced Tuesday that they\u2019ve formalized goaltender Sergei Murashov\u2018s recall from AHL Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton. Fellow netminder\u00a0Taylor Gauthier\u00a0was returned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,100,102,7625,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-547386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","10":"tag-sergei-murashov","11":"tag-taylor-gauthier","12":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116369232022868780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547386","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=547386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}