The Pittsburgh Penguins have effectively moved on from the legend of Louis Domingue, signing former Buffalo Sabre Dustin Tokarski to serve as their third-string netminder. The contract is a one-year, one-way deal worth $775,000.
Tokarski, 32, has spent most of his professional career as a quality third goalie and should be able to handle that role successfully in Pittsburgh. Tokarski is actually coming off of perhaps the most successful tenure of his career, as he’s played in more NHL games in Buffalo than on any other stop in his career. Tokarski, taking advantage of an unsettled situation in net in Buffalo, played 29 games in 2021-22, posting an .899 save percentage. That’s not an elite number, there were games where Tokarski certainly looked like an NHL goalie.
This will be Tokarski’s second tour of duty with the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins, the team he played with in 2019-20. He had a .924 save percentage in 18 games there, and that memory was likely fresh in the Wilkes-Barre Scranton management’s mind when they made this deal. In all likelihood, Tokarski will take the role of starting goalie for the Penguins’ AHL affiliate and be able to provide competent backup goaltending in case he’s needed in Pittsburgh.
Dude hasn’t been good since 2014. Might as well put a road-cone in goal. I hope for Pittsburgh’s sake the top-2 stay healthy, but… well… umm…
Did Domingue want that much more…? We’ll find out, I guess.
We still need a 2nd or 3rd line wing.
Seeing Kubalik and maybe Lindblom as the only guys who could push Zucker to the third line.
Radulov have anything left?
Radulov went back to the KHL and I thought u said we only needed 2 bottom 6 spots with the now 3 million dollars left. Now we need a second line wing too?!? Crazy stuff!
Pushing Zucker to the third line makes the team better. Seems pretty obvious.
@ forwhom—Same AAV but Louis got 2 years instead of just 1
Again, this guy does not count towards the $4mil in cap space. All contracts under $1.25 mil that are assigned to the AHL do not affect the NHL cap number.
anyone is better than Domingue