According to Puckpedia, the Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Anthony Mantha to a one-year contract that carries a salary cap hit of $2.5 million.
The deal also offers a performance bonus of $2 million. The requirements for that bonus are not publicly known.
Mantha, 30, spent the 2024-25 campaign with the Calgary Flames but missed most of the season because of a knee injury he suffered in mid-November. Surgery was required to repair one of his ACLs.
In the 13 games he did play last season, Mantha scored seven points (four goals, three assists) while averaging 13:54 of ice time per contest.
Short-handed goal for Calgary!
Scored by Anthony Mantha with 04:11 remaining in the 1st period.
Vancouver: 3
Calgary: 1#CGYvsVAN#Canucks#Flamespic.twitter.com/F0XsJZzNgb— NHL Goals (@nhl_goal_bot) October 10, 2024
Mantha just completed a one-year contract with the Flames that carried a salary cap hit of $3.5 million.
A left-handed shot, the massive Mantha (6-foot-5, 234 pounds) has been productive during his 10-year NHL career when healthy. A three-time 20-goal scorer, Mantha reached that barrier as recently as the 2023-24 season. Splitting that campaign between the Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights, Mantha scored 44 points (23 goals, 21 assists) in 74 games.
Mantha was a first-round draft pick (No. 20 overall) of the Detroit Red Wings in 2013.