Pittsburgh Penguins sign winger Andreas Johnsson to one-year, $800,000 contract
The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed winger Andreas Johnsson to a one-year, $800,000 contract.
The Penguins have signed forward Andreas Johnsson to a one-year contract.
The contract runs through the 2023.24 season and carries an average annual value of $800,000.
Johnsson was an unrestricted free agent after the conclusion of his four-year contract with a $3.4 million cap hit, one he originally signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
He reunites with Kyle Dubas in Pittsburgh after winning a Calder Cup in 2018 together with the Toronto Marlies in the AHL. Dubas has also signed all four of Johnsson’s contracts, with his entry-level deal being signed while Dubas was the interim general manager in Toronto in 2015, and the other two coming while Dubas was GM of the Leafs.
Johnsson got into only two games with the New Jersey Devils last season, going pointless in both games, but had 9 goals, 21 assists, and 30 points in 36 games with the Devils’ AHL affiliate, the Utica Comets. After he was traded to the San Jose Sharks as part of the Timo Meier return, he had three assists in 11 games in San Jose.
Johnsson was a seventh-round draft pick of the Maple Leafs in 2013, and was the second-latest pick in that draft to play more than 100 games in the NHL after MacKenzie Weegar. He played three seasons with the Maple Leafs before he was dealt to the New Jersey Devils, where he spent parts of three seasons with them until he was traded to San Jose as part of the aforementioned Meier trade.
The Penguins have had a busy offseason outside of their change in management, as they acquired Reilly Smith for a third round pick before the draft and went all out on July 1st by adding Matt Nieto, Alex Nedeljkovic, Ryan Graves, Noel Acciari, Lars Eller, and re-signing goalie Tristan Jarry to a five-year deal. Since then they’ve made several cheap depth signings like Johnsson, Magnus Hellberg, Will Butcher, and Vinnie Hinostroza. They currently find themselves almost $2.5 million over the salary cap with a couple of smaller restricted free agents left to sign in Drew O’Connor and Ty Smith, but could still look to move money like Mikael Granlund or Jeff Carter.