Penguins extend Dewar to two-year, $4.5 million deal

The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Connor Dewar to a two-year, $4.5 million contract that carries a cap hit of $2.25 million, the team announced on Thursday.

Dewar, 26, recorded 14 goals and 30 points in 78 games with the Penguins this season with a plus-16 rating. He added two goals in six playoff games before his team was eliminated in the first round.

The 5-foot-10 centre is coming off a one-year, $1.1 million contract and was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.

Pittsburgh acquired Dewar, along with the defenceman Conor Timmins, from the Toronto Maple Leafs in March of 2025 in exchange for a draft pick.

Drafted 92nd overall by the Minnesota Wild in 2018, Dewar has 37 goals and 83 points in 316 career games split between the Wild, Maple Leafs, and Penguins.

Penguins extend Solovyov

The Penguins also extended defenceman Ilya Solovyov to a one-year, $850,000 contract.

Solovyov, 25, finished last season with the Penguins after he was acquired from the Colorado Avalanche for forward Valtteri Puustinen and a draft pick on Jan. 20.

He recorded a goal and eight points in 30 games split between the Avalanche and Penguins while averaging 12:45 of ice time.

The 6-foot-3, left-shot blueliner was coming off a two-year, $1.55 million contract that carried a cap hit of $775,000 and was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent in July.

Drafted 205th overall by the Calgary Flames in 2020, Solovyov has a goal and 12 points in 45 career games split between the Flames, Avalanche, and Penguins.

The Mogilev, Belarus, native represented his country at the 2021 World Hockey Championship in a 15th-place finish.