{"id":598479,"date":"2026-06-14T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/598479\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:06:18","slug":"penguins-acquire-forward-oliver-okuliar-from-florida-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/598479\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins acquire forward Oliver Okuliar from Florida Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired a forward from the Florida Panthers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas announced the team acquired Oliver Okuliar for defenseman Emil Pieniniemi. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Okuliar, 26, is currently an unsigned restricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 6-foot-2, 190-pound left winger spent the 2025-26 season playing for Skellefte\u00e5 AIK in the Swedish Hockey League, where he appeared in 46 games, recording 15 goals, 14 assists and 29 points. In the playoffs, he finished tied for first in the SHL in goals (6) and was second overall in points (13). <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">He also represented Slovakia in the 2026 Olympic Games, recording 2 points in six games, and at the 2026 World Championship, where he earned five points in seven games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Okuliar has spent stints in the AHL, Czech Extraliga, Finland\u2019s Liiga and Slovakia\u2019s Extraliga. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired a forward from the Florida Panthers. President of Hockey Operations and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[46305,26402,2675,62,57,5141,5,15348,55018,4,5966,2602,46263,63,43,49619,25639,31286,55019],"class_list":["post-598479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida-panthers","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympic-games","tag-events","tag-florida","tag-florida-panthers","tag-floridapanthers","tag-hockey","tag-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2026","tag-panthers","tag-sports","tag-winter-games","tag-winter-olympic-games","tag-winter-olympics-2026","tag-xxv-olympiad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116747434989679704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598479","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=598479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}