The Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday shipped veteran forward Anthony Beauvillier to the Washington Capitals in exchange for a 2025 second-round draft pick, the teams announced.
With some injuries up front in Pittsburgh this season, Beauvillier, 27, took advantage, and sharpened his trade resume along the way. At the 4 Nations Face-Off break in February, he had 12 goals and 18 points, which was a vast improvement from a season before.
In 2023-24, Beauvillier, a 2015 first-round pick of the New York Islanders, skated for three teams — Chicago Blackhawks, Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators — and combined for just five goals.
He comes to the Capitals with very little risk. He’s on the back end of a one-year deal with a modest $1.25 million salary cap hit. Anything he can rack up in the postseason run he’s just entered will help him at the free-agent bargaining table in July.
Washington, in first place in the Metropolitan Division most of the season, is competing for the No. 1 overall seed in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and has an Eastern Conference-leading 88 points headed into Friday’s action.
