After agreeing to a two-year deal with Ryan Reaves, the Vegas Golden Knights have agreed to a deal with one of their restricted free agents as they have signed Brandon Pirri to a one-year, two-way contract worth $650K, according to TVA Sports Renaud Lavoie.
The 27-year-old was one of their most productive players with the AHL Chicago Wolves, posting 29 goals and 52 points in 57 games and even showed some goal scoring ability for the Golden Knights late in the season during a two-game promotion in which he netted three goals. In total, he has 228 games and scored 60 NHL goals so far in his career. The forward is well known to Vegas head coach Gerard Gallant as he coached Pirri with the Florida Panthers the year that Pirri put up a 22-goal campaign.
Pirri is the first to sign of eight Golden Knight restricted free agents, including William Karlsson, Colin Miller, Shea Theodore, Tomas Nosek, William Carrier, Teemu Pulkkinen, Oscar Dansk and Philip Holm. All received qualifying offers earlier this week.
Pirri has always been a decent goal-scorer considering his role has mainly been a bottom six forward. He would have more interest in the league if he could just learn to play defense.