Penguins Sign Nick Robertson To Two-Year Deal
According to Elliotte Friedman, the Penguins have settled with Nicholas Robertson on a new contract.
The forward was one of 15 RFAs who filed for Salary Arbitration. A few days ago, the dates for each player’s arbitration hearings were set, including Robertson. If a deal wasn’t reached before the proceedings, the Penguins had the option to choose between a one or two-year contract for Robertson, with the arbitrator settling the value of the contract.
His arbitration hearing was on the calendar for later this month, on July 28th. Robertson avoids that hearing by signing a two-year, $6.5MM ($3.25MM AAV) contract, per Friedman. The deal will pay him through the 2028-29 season, when he’ll turn 26 and become an RFA again.
He finished his 2025-26 season scoring 16 goals for 32 points with the Toronto Maple Leafs, setting career-highs for the former 2019 second-round pick. The Leafs traded him to Pittsburgh on July 1st for a 2028 fourth-round pick, reuniting Robertson with the GM who originally drafted him, Kyle Dubas.
The 24-year-old winger, a second-round pick in 2019, has profiled as a useful supplementary scoring forward in a middle-six role, especially in the last three seasons as a 20-30 point player, with 14, 15, and 16 goals in each of those three seasons. He’s built that up through his six bumpy seasons under the Toronto organization, where, with much trade speculation, linking him to the Penguins all the way back to 2024, he had signed two one-year deals after his entry-level contract’s end in 2024 and never received over 13 minutes of ice time.
Now with Pittsburgh, Robertson is a younger option within the forward group for the Penguins, turning 25 in September. The Pens now have around $13MM in cap space and 14 forwards on their books. It should be noted that Nicholas is the younger brother of Stars star Jason Robertson, who remains in need of a new contract. If the Penguins are attempting to pony up to acquire the American scorer, signing his brother is one way to start.
More to come.
15 Players Elect For Salary Arbitration
The deadline to file for salary arbitration passed at 5 P.M. ET on July 5. 15 players elected to head to arbitartion before then, including the market’s top free agent, Dallas Stars’ winger Jason Robertson. Arbitration hearings will take place between late-July and early-August. Filing for arbitration will restrict players from negotiating contracts with any other team, removing high-value RFAs like Robertson from offer sheet eligibility. Players will have the opportunity to continue negotiating with their current team and could avoid arbitration by reaching a new deal before their hearing occurs. The full list of players who filed for salary arbitration in 2026, per Chris Johnston of The Athletic, is as follows:
F Xavier Bourgault (Ottawa Senators)
F Kirby Dach (Montreal Canadiens)
D Jamie Drysdale (Philadelphia Flyers)
G Jet Greaves (Columbus Blue Jackets)
F Alex Jefferies (New York Islanders)
F Peyton Krebs (Buffalo Sabres)
F Connor McMichael (St. Louis Blues)
F Cole Perfetti (Winnipeg Jets)
F Jason Robertson (Dallas Stars)
F Nicholas Robertson (Pittsburgh Penguins)
G Akira Schmid (Florida Panthers)
D Braden Schneider (New York Rangers)
D Ronan Seeley (Carolina Hurricanes)
F Cole Sillinger (Columbus Blue Jackets)
F Trevor Zegras (Philadelphia Flyers)
Free Agent Focus: Toronto Maple Leafs
Free agency is now less than two weeks away, and teams are looking ahead to when it opens. Even with the UFA crop being thinned out in recent months, there will be some quality veterans set to hit the open market in July, while many teams also have key restricted free agents to re-sign. We continue our look around the NHL with an overview of the free agent situation for the Maple Leafs.
Key Restricted Free Agents
F Nick Robertson – A perennial subject of trade chatter, Robertson finally delivered the offensive season Toronto had long hoped for, even as the team cratered around him. The 24-year-old winger, a second-round pick in 2019 and the younger brother of Stars star Jason Robertson, set career highs with 16 goals and 32 points in 78 games, settling in as a useful secondary scorer in a middle-six role despite averaging under 13 minutes a night. His expiring $1.825MM contract makes him an obvious qualifying-offer candidate, with reporting pegging his next deal in the $2-3MM range on a short term. The wrinkle is the new front office: with John Chayka looking to reshape the roster, Robertson is exactly the kind of cost-controlled scorer who could either stick as a cheap middle-six piece or be folded into a larger trade.
F Matias Maccelli – Acquired from Utah a year ago to help soften the loss of Mitch Marner, Maccelli endured a bumpy first season in Toronto but quietly proved he belongs. The 25-year-old Finnish winger posted 14 goals and 39 points in 71 games and, notably, led all Maple Leafs forwards in expected-goals share despite the club’s woeful possession numbers, a sign his underlying game was better than either the box score or a lengthy December healthy-scratch streak suggested. He has been open about wanting to stay, and the playmaking he brings on the wing fills a genuine need. The complication is money: coming off a $3.425MM cap hit, his qualifying number could become awkward if Chayka lands another pricier top-six forward, leaving him both a re-sign candidate and a potential trade or offer-sheet target.
D Emil Andrae – One of two pieces coming back in the June 16 deal with Philadelphia, alongside goaltender Samuel Ersson, Andrae is the kind of young, cost-controlled defenseman a quckly retooling team can find a role for. The 24-year-old Swede, a second-round pick in 2020, locked down a regular spot on the Flyers’ blue line after an early-season shuttle to the minors, finishing with two goals and 13 points, a plus-15 rating, 68 hits, and 58 blocked shots across 61 games. Undersized at 5-foot-9 but a creative, mobile puck-mover with some power-play utility, he is exactly the type of young defenseman the new front office can try to grow into an everyday player, with a path to a third-pairing job and second-unit power-play time in Toronto. Coming off an expiring $903K cap hit and arbitration-eligible, he is a straightforward qualifying-offer candidate the Leafs should be glad to keep.
Other RFAs: G Samuel Ersson, F Jacob Quillan
Key Unrestricted Free Agents
F Calle Jarnkrok – A useful veteran in better times, Jarnkrok’s four-year run in Toronto appears to be ending on a sour note. The 34-year-old, who turns 35 early next season, managed just eight points in 56 games after a sports hernia limited him to 19 games the prior year, and he was often ineffective while absorbing minutes that might have gone to younger players. Reporting from David Pagnotta indicated he is unlikely to be back, and with Chayka explicitly aiming to get younger and faster, the expiring $2.1MM forward looks all but certain to move on, whether to another NHL club or back to Sweden.
D Troy Stecher – Claimed off waivers from Edmonton in mid-November, Stecher became one of the few feel-good stories of Toronto’s season, stabilizing an injury-ravaged blue line with the tenacity and shot-blocking that have defined his career. The 32-year-old right-shot defenseman skated in 58 games and chipped in three goals and 14 points, his best offensive output since 2019-20, while logging dependable minutes for next to nothing against the cap at $787.5K. He has made clear he hopes to re-sign, though he has also acknowledged that a return to Vancouver, where his career began, holds appeal if he reaches July 1 unsigned. For a rebuilding team that still needs bodies on the right side, another cheap deal to bring him back would be sensible business.
Other UFAs: F Travis Boyd, F Vinni Lettieri, D Matt Benning
Projected Cap Space
The Maple Leafs enter the summer with more flexibility than they have had in years and a brand-new management group eager to use it. After a disappointing 32-36-14 season that finished last in the Atlantic and out of the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade, Toronto fired GM Brad Treliving and coach Craig Berube, handed the front office to former Coyotes GM John Chayka alongside senior adviser Mats Sundin, and hired Jim Hiller as head coach. The roster teardown is already underway: the June 16 trade of Woll and Benoit to Philadelphia cleared roughly $5MM, and Chayka moved quickly to add the offseason’s top available defenseman, Darren Raddysh, on a June 19 sign-and-trade. The Leafs have ample room for Chayka to chase top-six help on the wing and possibly down the middle, with a projected $18.8MM in cap space. The bigger swings figure to come on the trade market: Morgan Rielly and his full no-trade clause sit at the center of trade speculation, and power forward Matthew Knies, under contract for five more years with no trade protection until the final year of the deal, looms as the team’s most coveted chip. Add the No. 1 overall pick at this month’s draft, where Penn State’s Gavin McKenna is the consensus top selection, and Chayka has no shortage of avenues to reshape a roster and get back into the playoffs.
Salary cap information via PuckPedia.
Who Could The Penguins Target Before The Trade Deadline?
The Penguins appeared to fall back to earth in December after a strong start had them in playoff contention. A ten-game stretch dropped Pittsburgh to the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. However, since the Christmas break, the Penguins have been on a tear, going 14-3-3 and climbing to second place in the Metropolitan Division.
No one expected Pittsburgh to be in this spot, but that’s where they are, and it is likely changing general manager Kyle Dubas’ long-term plans. Pittsburgh was expecting to sell at the trade deadline, but now there is talk of potential additions, as Josh Yohe writes in The Athletic.
But what exactly would the Penguins add? The truth is that Dubas probably isn’t looking for short-term answers and isn’t going to give up previous picks and prospects for rentals.
He might send out a late-round pick for a player or two, but his big moves, if he makes them, will not be short-sighted. So, given that he is armed with a ton of cap space and a plethora of draft picks in the subsequent three drafts, who could Dubas target?
Some people might see a player like Blues forward Jordan Kyrou as a fit, but Pittsburgh’s GM has a type. For the past two years, it’s been clear he’s targeting high-ceiling, (mostly) young players who have fallen on hard times, need an opportunity to showcase their skills, and come at a discount.
Egor Chinakhov, Arturs Silovs, Philip Tomasino, Cody Glass, and Stuart Skinner were part of a couple of trades Dubas made to acquire young talent with a ton of upside. Most of those moves have worked out, with Tomasino being the exception.
Then there is the free agency market, where Dubas’s work is very impressive. Justin Brazeau, Parker Wotherspoon, Ryan Shea, and Anthony Mantha were all brought in for a song. Now, they are all contributing significant minutes in key roles for Pittsburgh, and the team is reaping the benefits.
Kyrou could be considered a fit, but given the price tag and the money he is owed, it doesn’t feel like a Dubas target heading into the trade deadline. He has been burned by significant acquisitions before, both in Pittsburgh and Toronto, so he could be tepid when it comes to big-game hunting, especially if he is eyeing the Penguins’ long-term prospects. But like Kyrou, there are many players who have fallen on hard times and are available, with the upside Dubas might be looking for.
What about a Shane Wright in Seattle? Would Dubas be willing to move some of his picks and prospects to acquire the former fourth-overall pick in 2022, or even go so far as to move a player from the Penguins’ current roster?
Wright looked like he’d found his NHL footing last season, but an uneven start to this year has him on shaky ground. Seattle is putting out feelers to gauge the market for the 22-year-old.
Pittsburgh needs young, high-end talent to add to its young core of Benjamin Kindel, Sergey Murashov, Harrison Brunicke, and Rutger McGroarty. Could Wright be a fit? There is nothing to suggest Pittsburgh has interest, but given Dubas’ track record, it’s hard to ignore that there could be a fit there.
What about another top pick, Alexis Lafrenière, who is reportedly not a significant part of the New York Rangers’ retool? The former first overall pick in 2020 looked to have turned the corner two years ago, when he tallied 28 goals and 29 assists in 82 games.
However, last season was a setback offensively, and this season has been an even steeper drop. His assist numbers remain stable, but the finishing just hasn’t been there. He has a two percent drop in his shooting rate and isn’t generating the same shot volume as in 2023-24.
It’s hard to believe the Rangers would trade with the Penguins given the bad blood between the two sides, but they’ve done business before, as recently as 2024, when Pittsburgh sent forward Reilly Smith to New York for two draft picks. This would be different, though, as Lafrenière is in the first year of a seven-year, $52.15MM contract. And make no mistake, that contract could be a barrier to the Rangers moving him, although with a rising cap, it could be worth taking on, given Lafrenière’s potential.
At 24 years of age, Lafrenière has yet to live up to the billing that made him a first-overall pick. He was touted as an offensive wizard, drawing comparisons to another former first-overall pick, Sidney Crosby.
Now, in his sixth NHL season, it doesn’t appear he will morph into an offensive wizard anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t value to be had. Lafrenière could be a good long-term option to play on the wing with Kindel in Pittsburgh’s top six.
Lafrenière is a smart player. Like Kindel, he has a high hockey IQ and is an excellent passer who handles the puck well. There could be a match there if the Penguins are looking for younger players who have underperformed.
Given Dubas’s previous connection in Toronto, it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t be interested in right winger Nicholas Robertson, a pending RFA next summer who has been on the trade block for what feels like forever.
Robertson wanted out of Toronto 18 months ago and never got his wish. However, the Maple Leafs have moved him up the lineup this season, with varying results, thanks to the injuries the team has dealt with. Would Toronto move him now? It’s hard to say, but for the right price, anything is possible.
It’s not certain that Robertson would be a fit in Pittsburgh, as he likely wouldn’t be in their top nine. The Penguins’ fourth line of Blake Lizotte, Noel Acciari and Connor Dewar has been highly effective this year, meaning there might not be a place for Robertson with the Penguins. Things could change in the summer, when the Penguins have more slots open up due to departures, but for now, it seems unlikely that they would acquire the 24-year-old forward.
At the beginning of the season, the Penguins were widely regarded as having the worst left-side defensive unit in the league. No one could have predicted the emergence of Shea and Wotherspoon, who have become solid defensive options, while Brett Kulak was still playing in Edmonton with the Oilers.
At the time, Penguins fans were discussing the possibility of acquiring Anaheim Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov, the 10th overall pick in 2022. Reports from Elliotte Friedman at the time indicated that Mintyukov wasn’t happy with his playing time, and Penguins fans rightly saw him as a potential solution to their defensive woes. But now, with the Penguins’ current depth, it’s hard to say whether it would be a move for Pittsburgh to make. Dubas always likes to stockpile NHL defensemen and has at least a dozen of them right now, but would he put together a 22-year-old defenseman who would be a heck of a buy-low option?
Make no mistake, Mintyukov can play and would be a great long-term option for the Penguins alongside Brunicke on the back end. This season, Mintyukov has six goals and eight assists in 48 games, buoyed by a career-high shooting percentage of 12%. Pittsburgh is being cautious about how it spends its future assets and may not want to roll the dice if the price gets too high. But if Anaheim is looking to move on from Mintyukov, the Penguins could likely put together a competitive offer for the pending UFA.
Injury Notes: Ristolainen, Robertson, Teravainen
The Philadelphia Flyers announced tonight that defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen would miss their road contest against the Buffalo Sabres due to an upper-body injury. The Flyers have classified his injury timeline as day-to-day. Ristolainen missed the first two months of the season recovering from offseason surgery, but played in all of the Flyers’ games after making his season debut on Dec. 16. He has been the team’s No. 4 defenseman in terms of ice time this season, averaging 20:59 time on ice per game including usage on both sides of special teams.
Luckily for the Flyers, this new injury to Ristolainen comes as they get Jamie Drysdale back from injured reserve. As a result, they were able to plug Drysdale directly into the right side of their lineup, filling the hole left by Ristolainen’s absence. It’s not an exact one-to-one lineup replacement, as head coach Rick Tocchet moved Noah Juulsen onto Nick Seeler‘s pairing, in the spot Ristolainen occupied Monday night against the Lightning. Drysdale played alongside Emil Andrae. While Ristolainen has dealt with nagging injury issues over the course of his Flyers tenure, the hope will be that this new absence will be brief. He’s a key member of the team’s defense and his efforts will be necessary for the Flyers to stand the best chance of keeping pace in the hotly contested Eastern Conference playoff race.
Other injury updates from around the NHL:
- The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without forward Nick Robertson on a day-to-day basis as he manages a lower-body injury, per TSN’s Mark Masters. Robertson didn’t play yesterday against the Utah Mammoth after appearing to suffer the injury Monday against the Colorado Avalanche. Veteran Calle Jarnkrok drew into Toronto’s lineup in Robertson’s place. The 24-year-old, who was the subject of offseason trade speculation, has had a decent season, all things considered, for the Maple Leafs. He’s scored 10 goals and 22 points, just five points shy of his career-high. He’s produced at that clip despite receiving just over twelve minutes of ice time per game.
- Teuvo Teravainen, a key veteran forward for the Chicago Blackhawks, has suffered an upper-body injury and won’t be available to play in the team’s game tomorrow against the Calgary Flames. Per head coach Jeff Blashill, Teravainen is also questionable to play in the team’s game on Saturday as well. The 31-year-old hasn’t produced at quite the same rate as last season, with 21 points in 45 games. He scored 15 goals and 58 points in 2024-25. He’s nonetheless been one of the more reliable Blackhawks forwards, and is tied for fourth in scoring on the team. He’s also a useful forward on the penalty kill, ranking third among Blackhawks forwards in shorthanded time on ice per game.
Penguins Notes: Robertson, O’Connor, Line Combinations
Dan Kingerski of Pittsburgh Hockey Now writes about a potential link between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nicholas Robertson. It’s not the first time rumors have surfaced about a potential Robertson to Pittsburgh trade, as Kingerski wrote back in May that the Penguins, specifically general manager Kyle Dubas, should target the undersized Maple Leafs forward. However, Robertson remains a Maple Leaf despite asking for a trade in June, and the Penguins have just under $900K in available cap space. While a move seems unlikely at this point, it should be noted that the Penguins have 15 forwards on their active roster and could likely bury an additional $1.7MM in the minors.
Kingerski writes that the Penguins could offer sheet Robertson for below $2.29MM, and the cost would only be a third-rounder, but the Maple Leafs would likely match that number and shut the door on the Robertson-to-Pittsburgh talk. It appears that the Penguins’ best option, should they want to acquire Robertson, would be to make a hockey trade using a roster player with value and perhaps a draft pick to try and pry the 22-year-old loose.
In other Penguins notes:
- Kingerski also wrote about the Penguins’ lack of a winger for superstar Sidney Crosby. The Penguins have spent the summer trying to find someone to play with Crosby after trading Jake Guentzel at the trade deadline, and with the summer coming to an end, Kingerski believes that Drew O’Connor is likely the Penguins’ best option for the first-line left winger role. O’Connor finished last season playing with Crosby and showed glimpses during that time. The 25-year-old finished the year with 16 goals and 17 assists in 79 games, including seven goals and five assists in the final 19 games when he played alongside Crosby.
- The Penguins acquisition of young forward Rutger McGroarty has changed the potential makeup of their forward lines (according to Dan Kingerski). The Penguins boast as many as 19 potential NHL forwards, including newly acquired Kevin Hayes, Cody Glass, and Anthony Beauvillier, and it could make for an interesting training camp in the Steel City. McGroarty could get a look alongside Sidney Crosby on the first line, but he could also slide into a third-line role alongside Hayes and Beauvillier. It isn’t even clear which side of the ice McGroarty will play on, but one clear thing is that his presence in Pittsburgh makes things very interesting when it comes to the Penguins’ forward ranks.
Maple Leafs Assign Nicholas Robertson To AHL
With the Maple Leafs needing to make a move to open up a roster spot and free up the cap space to officially activate Calle Jarnkrok off LTIR, they’ve elected to send Nicholas Robertson down, announcing (Twitter link) that they’ve assigned the winger to AHL Toronto.
The 22-year-old started the season in the minors with the Maple Leafs taking advantage of his waiver exemption. He fared quite well early on with the Marlies, picking up five goals and six assists in nine games with them, resulting in a recall back to the big club back in early November; he had been with the Leafs since then until now.
Robertson has played in 41 games at the NHL level so far this season, a career-high. He has put up reasonable offensive numbers with eight goals and 11 assists in those appearances while averaging a little over 11 minutes a night almost exclusively at five-on-five. He had been playing regularly as of late but once again, his waiver exemption likely worked against him.
Once the trade deadline passes, there are no more limits on roster sizes so depending on what Toronto’s salary cap situation looks like by then, it’s quite possible that Robertson is back with the Maple Leafs by this time a week from now if he is still with the organization at that point. If not, he’ll have an opportunity to play much bigger minutes with the Marlies which could help him heading into restricted free agency this summer.
Atlantic Notes: Newhook, Robertson, Tarasenko
The Canadiens are expected to activate forward Alex Newhook off injured reserve on Saturday, paving the way for him to return against Dallas, relays Herb Zurkowsky of the Montreal Gazette. The 23-year-old has missed nearly two and a half months with an ankle injury but had gotten off to a decent start to his first year in Montreal before that, recording 13 points in 23 games. While Newhook has spent a lot of time on the wing in his career, he’ll likely play at center more frequently down the stretch following the recent Sean Monahan trade. The Canadiens opened up a roster spot to activate Newhook earlier today when they returned Lucas Condotta to AHL Laval.
Elsewhere in the Atlantic Division:
- Nicholas Robertson has popped up in recent trade chatter and the Maple Leafs are believed to be willing to move the winger, reports The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta. The 22-year-old has managed to stay healthy this season, resulting in him playing in a career-best 31 games where he has seven goals and seven assists. However, Robertson hasn’t been able to lock down a full-time spot in Toronto’s lineup. Considering his offensive success at the lower levels, it stands to reason that several rebuilding teams would have some interest in seeing if Robertson can take a step forward with a new organization.
- While many expect the Senators to move pending UFA winger Vladimir Tarasenko before next month’s trade deadline, Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli notes that it’s not a lock that Ottawa even wants to move him. The Sens are known to be looking to add quality veterans to help their younger core and have been impressed with how he has become a leading voice in their dressing room. Tarasenko recently changed agents again; perhaps it was on the hopes of spurring along extension talks that have yet to begin at this point.
Toronto Maple Leafs Recall Nick Robertson
The Toronto Maple Leafs have recalled top prospect Nicholas Robertson to the NHL lineup. This recall comes after Robertson’s red-hot start to the AHL season, where he’s scored 11 points in only nine games, good for a Top 20 spot in the league’s scoring.
Toronto is granted the roster spot to make this move thanks to the slew of injuries to their defense. They currently have four defensemen facing injuries, including Jake McCabe, who is the only one of the four to not be on injured reserve. Instead, he and fellow defenseman Maxime Lajoie have operated as the team’s two scratches. With so much roster attention needing to go to the defense, Toronto hasn’t been carrying an extra forward.
Robertson will seemingly step into that spot, although his hot start to the season could earn him a crack at the lineup. Robertson has played in 31 NHL games over the last three seasons, scoring three goals and seven points. Five of those points came in the 15 games he received last season; the most he’s played in a single NHL season. But injuries have proven detrimental to the 22-year-old winger, who missed most of the 2022-23 season with a shoulder injury. Now healthy once again, Robertson is looking to make up for lost time in his development curve and prove to the Leafs organization that he’s still the prospect that everyone was excited about following the 2019 NHL Draft.
Toronto is in need of some kind of spark. The team has 36 goals-for on the season, neatly ranking them 16th in the league. Nearly all of their scoring has come from the usual suspects, with Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares, and William Nylander being the only players to score over-10 points through the team’s first 11 games. Other than the star-studded quartet, four members of the Leafs’ bottom-six have fewer than two points – and two players have zero points – so far. Depth scoring has proven invaluable to recent Stanley Cup champions and will be a virtue that Toronto hopes Robertson can provide.
Atlantic Notes: Gostisbehere, Robertson, Davies
The Red Wings added defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere early in free agency to help replace some of the production they lost when they moved Filip Hronek to Vancouver last season. Ted Kulfan of The Detroit News notes that the blueliner didn’t have a ton of interest on the open market despite recording 92 points in the last two seasons which resulted in him picking the team that he thought gave him the best chance of securing a multi-year agreement next summer, either with Detroit (who gave him a $4.125MM deal) or elsewhere. That approach worked for Olli Maatta who signed a one-year deal last summer and then inked a two-year extension back in February and it’s one that the 30-year-old Gostisbehere will be looking to follow.
More from the Atlantic:
- Toronto winger Nick Robertson told TSN’s Mark Masters (video link) that he has fully recovered from his season-ending shoulder surgery in January and will be ready to participate in training camp next month. It has been a rough go for the 21-year-old who has battled injury trouble in each of the last three seasons. He played in just 17 games last season between the NHL and AHL with 15 of those coming with the Maple Leafs where he had a respectable five points. This is the final year of Robertson’s entry-level deal and with cap space expected to be limited, his cap hit of less than $800K will certainly help his chances of seeing NHL action in 2023-24.
- Panthers prospect Josh Davies is on the move in junior as WHL Portland announced that they’ve acquired the forward from Swift Current. The 19-year-old was a sixth-round pick by Florida in 2022 (186th overall) after a 36-point, 119-PIM season. However, Davies wasn’t able to build on those numbers in 2022-23, recording 20 goals and 14 assists along with 131 penalty minutes. He’ll be hoping that a fresh start could help him find another gear offensively to try to land an entry-level deal from Florida by the June 1st deadline.