{"id":554367,"date":"2026-04-17T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554367\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:01:49","slug":"penguins-waive-matt-dumba-season-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554367\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Waive Matt Dumba, Season Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/matt-dumba\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"914\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Dumba<\/a> will not finish the season with the Pittsburgh Penguins or the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday, the organization placed the right-handed defenseman on unconditional waivers, which allows him to end his season now without participating in the AHL playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>Dumba, 31, publicly expressed frustration, and his play greatly suffered in the AHL after the Penguins waived him on Dec. 12. He did rally for a hot streak before the Olympics, but did not earn a recall, and his play cooled. <\/p>\n<p>The Penguins acquired Dumba from the Dallas Stars in July 2025 as part of a salary dump. Dallas included a second-round pick for the Penguins to acquire Dumba and the final year of his two-year, $3.75 million contract. However, he played in only 11 NHL games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Dumba will be an unrestricted free agent. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/matt-dumba\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Dumba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Dumba will not finish the season with the Pittsburgh Penguins or the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. Thursday, the organization&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,9139,4,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-554367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-matt-dumba","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116419003236278316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554367","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=554367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}