With the Pittsburgh Penguins entering the offseason after a brief return to the postseason, TribLive will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 53 individuals signed to an NHL contract — including those whose deals do not begin until future seasons — with the organization.

Starting with veteran Noel Acciari and going on through to prospect Bill Zonnon, every player will be profiled in alphabetical order (with newly acquired forward Oliver Okuliar tacked on after Zonnon).

This series is scheduled to be published every day until June 24, two days before the start of the NHL Draft. In the event of a transaction, that schedule will be altered as necessary.

(Note: All contract information courtesy of Puckpedia.)

Arturs Silovs

Position: Goaltender

Catches: Left

Age: 25

Height: 6-foot-4

Weight: 208 pounds

2025-26 NHL regular season statistics: 39 games, 19-12-8 record, 3.07 goals against average, .887 save percentage, two shutouts

2025-26 NHL postseason statistics: Three games, 2-1 record, 1.52 goals against average, .939 save percentage, zero shutouts

Contract: In the final year of a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $850,000. Pending restricted free agent on July 1

(Silovs is eligible for arbitration.)

Acquired: Trade, July 13, 2025

Last season: Even after leading the Abbotsford Canucks to the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup championship in 2024-25, Arturs Silovs was something of a man without a home last offseason.

The Vancouver Canucks had, in their estimation, a surplus of NHL-caliber goaltenders and they could have potentially lost Silovs on waivers if they sent him back to Abbotsford to open the 2025-26 campaign.

So they decided to make the most out of a bad situation and traded him to the Penguins for a fourth-round draft pick in 2027 and mid-level forward prospect Chase Stillman.

After a strong preseason in which he went 2-1 with a 2.55 goals against average and a .904 save percentage over three games, Silovs made the NHL roster out of training camp and offered plenty of surprises from the start. Literally.

Coaches curiously opted to start Silovs over incumbent Tristan Jarry in the season opener and he came through with an efficient 25-save performance in a 3-0 road win against the New York Rangers on Oct. 7.

Silovs and Jarry formed an undeclared platoon in net that lasted seemingly all season. That division of labor served both goaltenders well at the start of the campaign. In the first four weeks of 2025-26, Silovs appeared in eight games and posted a 4-2-2 record, a 2.70 goals against average, a .922 save percentage and one shutout.

Silovs’ and the Penguins’ fortunes swooned throughout November and December, however. Between Nov. 8 and Dec. 18, Silovs struggled, going 0-3-4 with a 4.02 goals against average and an .849 save percentage. Two of his starts over that stretch saw Silovs get pulled early in the second period after he allowed four goals on only six shots in each contest.

Most notably, Silovs struggled considerably in shootouts and largely became the face of the Penguins’ woes in the shootout over the course of the season. As the Penguins went 3-10 beyond the bounds of 65 minutes, Silovs had a 2-6 mark in shootouts.

Silovs and the Penguins got past their doldrums around Christmas as he settled into a new platoon with newly-acquired goaltender Stuart Skinner. Those two largely alternated every other start for the remainder of the season.

As the NHL took a break in February for the Olympics, Silovs suited up for Latvia in the tournament. In three games for Latvia, Silovs had a 1-2-0 record, a 3.01 goals against average and an .873 save percentage.

Silovs and Skinner weren’t exactly airtight down the final stretch of the regular season. And neither was the Penguins’ defense, for that matter. But they were strong enough to steer the Penguins to their first postseason appearance since 2022.

Following the Olympics, Silovs had an 8-5-0 mark, a 3.37 goals against average, an .871 save percentage and one shutout, which came via a 22-save effort in a 5-0 home win against the Vegas Golden Knights on March 1.

Skinner, who had guided the Edmonton Oilers to the previous two Stanley Cup Finals, was tabbed as the Penguins’ starting goaltender to open the playoffs. But after the Penguins lost the first three games of an opening-round series to the Philadelphia Flyers, Silovs replaced him and guided them to their only two wins of the series.

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And he came pretty close to leading them to a third win, but came up short in a valiant 31-save performance in Game 6 of the series, a 1-0 road loss in overtime.

The future: After the season, Silovs revealed he had been dealing with an unspecified knee injury for the final three or four weeks of play. There is little to indicate his ailment was anything significant and he should have a typical offseason to train.

One of the more intriguing matters remaining on the Penguins’ offseason agenda is what to do in net, though their options seem logical.

That’s to say re-signing Silovs, whom they have contract control over, and allowing Skinner, a pending unrestricted free agent, to leave, would make the most sense. That would allow the team to move forward with a new platoon with Silovs and rising prospect Sergei Murashov.

The main question with Silovs is what kind of term and salary should be extended to him in a contract offer. While he has plenty of flaws in his game, he is still fairly young and inexperienced at the NHL level (he still qualified as a rookie last season). So, there is plenty of room for him to reach his ceiling as an NHLer.

No matter what Penguins management decides with the composition of a new contract, Silovs has proven he can be part of the future.