LOS ANGELES (AP)—Rob Scuderi(notes) subscribed a four-year lessen with the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday, leaving the discoverer Cup endorse metropolis Penguins without their crowning antitank pairing.
Scuderi, who teamed with Hal Gill(notes) to modify a shutdown bike on the blue line, led the Penguins with a plus-23 judgement and had a career-high 16 points in 81 regular-season games. He also had a team-high 164 closed shots.
He and Gill visaged the contest of retentive downbound the opposition’s biggest offensive threats, and they were beatific sufficiency to support the Penguins get the Stanley Cup for the ordinal time. Gill mitt metropolis on Wednesday, the opening day of the NHL’s free-agent language season, for a two-year, $4.5 million contract with the metropolis Canadiens.
In constituent to his antitank prowess in the playoffs, Scuderi additional a goal and quaternary assists in 24 games patch logging 20 1/2 transactions of cover time. He assisted on Max Talbot’s(notes) Cup-winning content in Game 7 of the finals against Detroit.
Scuderi spent parts of fivesome seasons with the Penguins and has transcribed three goals and 36 assists in 300 occupation NHL games. He has octad points in 49 postseason contests, every with the Penguins, including serial appearances in the discoverer Cup finals.
The New royalty autochthonous was also solicited this hebdomad to incoming month’s U.S. Olympic hockey class tent in activity for the metropolis Games in February.
The Kings also re-signed limited liberated businessperson Kevin Westgarth(notes) to a three-year lessen on Thursday.
The 25-year-old correct winger had no points and figure penalisation transactions in nine games terminal season, his prototypal in the NHL. He also spent instance with the AHL’s Manchester Monarchs.
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