The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired goaltender Artūrs Šilovs from the Vancouver Canucks in alternate for ahead Chase Stillman and a fourth-round choose within the 2027 NHL Draft.
Šilovs is coming off a 2024-25 season wherein he earned the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as probably the most helpful participant of the Calder Cup Playoffs after backstopping the Abbotsford Canucks to the championship. The 24-year-old Šilovs was 16-7 with a 2.01 goals-against common, a .931 save proportion and 5 shutouts in 24 postseason appearances after going 14-5-1 (2.41, .908) in 21 regular-season video games for Abbotsford.
Šilovs additionally appeared in 10 video games with Vancouver in 2024-25, posting a report of 2-6-1 with a 3.65 GAA and an .861 save proportion.
A five-year professional, Šilovs has performed 110 profession video games within the AHL with Abbotsford and Manitoba, going 59-35-12 with a 2.58 GAA, a .906 save proportion and 9 shutouts. In 19 NHL video games with the Canucks, Šilovs is 8-8-2 with a 3.13 GAA and an .880 save proportion. He made 10 appearances in the course of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, serving to Vancouver attain the second spherical.
Šilovs has represented his native Latvia in a number of worldwide competitions, most notably the 2023 IIHF World Championship when he was named the match’s MVP as Latvia gained a bronze medal, its greatest end ever.
Šilovs was initially chosen by Vancouver within the sixth spherical of the 2019 NHL Draft.
Stillman, 22, was a first-round choose by New Jersey (twenty ninth total) within the 2021 NHL Draft. He was acquired by Pittsburgh on Mar. 7, 2025, and totaled 4 objectives and eight assists in 65 AHL video games with Utica and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in 2024-25.
As a rookie with Utica in 2023-24, Stillman notched 14 objectives and 10 assists in 54 AHL contests.
