If fans paid attention to the Pittsburgh Penguins this season, this one may seem a little familiar.
The Penguins suspended newly acquired defenseman Egor Zamula on Saturday after the 6-foot-3, 200-pound defenseman failed to report to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS), Pittsburgh’s AHL affiliate. Zamula, 25, was acquired on December 31 from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for striker Philip Tomasino.
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Zamula appeared in 13 games with the Flyers this season and recorded one assist and a plus-4 rating. He also spent three games with the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms, where he had two assists and a minus-3 record.
In 168 games with Philadelphia over six seasons, he has eight goals and 41 points and is minus-12. The Chelyabinsk, Russia native is a pending restricted free agent this season, and he is in the second year of a two-year contract that pays him $1.7 million per year.
As for why this might sound familiar? Zamura is the second defenseman in the Penguins organization this season to be suspended for failing to report to an affiliated club, while prospect Emil Pieniniemi did the same after training camp. Pieniniemi was supposed to report to the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL, but he never showed up and returned to Finland instead.
Pieniniemi, 20, was selected in the third round (91st overall) by the Penguins in 2023, and he has since reported to Wheeling, where he played in two games.
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