The Pittsburgh Penguins have made a minor league forward swap with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Pens get forward Bennett MacArthur, the Lightning get forward Lukas Svjekovsky.
The Penguins have signed forward Bennett MacArthur from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Lukas Svejkovsky.
MacArthur has a contract through the 2024.25 season and has an average annual value of $925,000 at the NHL level. pic.twitter.com/g0LFPwpAD9
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) June 30, 2024
MacArthur, 23, was an undrafted player who spent more time in the ECHL (108 games) than the AHL (8 games) during his two-year professional career. MacArthur scored 29 points in 43 games with the ECHL Allen Americans last season.
Svejkovsky, 22, was a fourth-round pick in 2020, which now marks two generations of Pittsburgh management. The diminutive winger had a successful junior career in the WHL but ended up on the wrong side of the order, appearing in more ECHL games than AHL games last season after struggling to find a niche and consistent playing time over the past two seasons in Wilkes-Barre.
Therefore, this is probably a more important move for Wheeling than anyone else. MacArthur will likely get in there and, depending on how things go, have a chance at AHL games. Things didn’t work out for Svejkovsky in the Pittsburgh organization either, so this transaction allows both players to get a fresh start somewhere else before their contracts expire after the 2024-25 season.
