Penguins Announce Roster For 2026 Prospect Tournament

The Pittsburgh Penguins have released their roster for the 2026 Prospect Tournament, View More Video Transcript Goalie-wise, I feel like we know which two goalies are going to make the team, but Joel Blomqvist will still try and push Sergei Murashov. He's still gonna try to make the team. I still think he's probably gonna be the guy in Wilkes-Barre, but you know, if I had to say right now, it'll be more of a 1A, 1B of Artie Shelovs and Sergei Murashov to start the season. Unless Murashov has a flat-out awful camp in pre-season, or Blomqvist just completely blows everyone away, honestly. Yeah. Yeah, and I mean, I wouldn't count Taylor Gauthier out of that mix, too. I don't nece- I just, I don't think he's gonna make the NHL roster. But something to consider, too, is that Taylor Gauthier has missed the last two training camps because of injury, so he's kind of been in a disad- advantageous position in the last two years to really make some noise. But he's been dominant at the ECHL level for a couple seasons now. He's been pretty good in his AHL minutes as well. If I had to guess, I mean, I don't think it's much of a mystery that, who the goaltending tandem is probably gonna be, unless Murashov absolutely bombs in camp . I don't think there's a way that it's not gonna be him and Shelovs. Yeah. But again, you mentioned it, don't count Joel Blomqvist out of this. This is a guy who the Penguins still think is going to be an NHL goaltender. They think he's gonna be a serviceable NHL goaltender. If he comes out and blows everyone out of the water in camp, it's not a guarantee that Murashov makes it. I think it's all but a guarantee that Sur- Murashov makes this roster. But if Blomqvist pushed, it's gonna make some decisions interesting there, too. Because I mean, also, too, if you're looking at Shelovs, and I don't think they'd start with Murashov and Blomqvist, if we're being realistic. Yeah. But you know, it's, it, is this a situation, too, if Shelovs has a weak camp, and just throwing like crazy hypotheticals out there, if Shelovs has a weak camp, and say Murashov, Blomqvist come out and just absolutely blow everybody away, I wouldn't, I wouldn't necessarily rule out entirely, 100%, it's like a .05 chance of happening. But I wouldn't entirely rule out them potentially starting with three goaltenders. We saw that a couple seasons ago, with Alex Nedeljkovic, Joel Blomqvist, and Tristan Jarry. For about a few weeks there, they did carry three goaltenders early in the season. Because Nedeljkovic came out of training camp with an injury. Blomqvist came up for his first NHL stint. He was really good on that first stint. They decided to keep Blomqvist around. Once Nedeljkovic came back, they carried three goaltenders for a hot second there. So I don't think that's gonna happen again. Like, that's a very low likelihood. But just like these other positions, I, I don't, I don't think anything's set in stone, so to speak. And if Blomqvist comes out and has the camp of his life, and Murashov has a camp that's deserving of making the NHL roster, do I think they're gonna waive Artie Shelovs? No. Do I think Artie Shelovs is gonna make the team? Yes. Yeah. But what do you do? You know, they have some flexibility here. I still think they're probably gonna end up carrying 14 forwards, um- Yeah if, if I had to guess. But you never know. Close