With the Pittsburgh Penguins entering the offseason for a third consecutive year without a playoff appearance, TribLive will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 56 individuals signed to an NHL contract — including those whose deals do not begin until future seasons — with the organization.

Starting with Noel Acciari and going on through to Philip Tomasino (regrettably, there is no Z on the payroll), every player will be profiled in alphabetical order.

This series is scheduled to be published Mondays through Saturdays leading up until June 24, four days before the start of the NHL Draft. In the event of a transaction, that schedule will be altered as necessary.

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Filip Larsson

Position: Goaltender

Catches: Left

Age: 26

Height: 6-foot-2

Weight: 195 pounds

2024-25 AHL statistics: 26 games, 12-9-3 record, 2.84 goals against average, .910 save percentage, five shutouts

Contract: In the first year of a two-year, two-way contract with a salary cap hit of $775,000. Pending unrestricted free agent in 2026.

Acquired: Unrestricted free agent signing, April 29, 2024

This season: A sixth-round draft pick (No. 167 overall) of the Detroit Red Wings back in 2016, Swedish-born Filip Larsson got a taste of North American hockey with that organization’s minor league affiliates throughout the 2019-20 season.

But with the pandemic wreaking havoc across all walks of life in the spring of 2020, Larsson went back to his home country that fall and seemed content to live out his professional aspirations there.

Things changed for Larsson after a strong 2023-24 season with Leksands IF of the Swedish Hockey League. That success prompted him to explore a potential return to this continent and that happened when he signed a two-year contract with the Penguins last spring.

Larsson knew he would be facing plenty of competition for playing time, particularly with valued goaltending prospect Joel Blomqvist coming off a strong debut season with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, to say nothing of the eventual arrival of fellow prospect Sergei Murashov.

But Larsson did quite a bit to suggest he had something to offer in 2024-25.

With Blomqvist opening the season on the NHL roster due to an injury that sidelined incumbent backup Alex Nedeljkovic, Larsson got something of a promotion as Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s top goaltender almost immediately.

After getting torched in a 7-6 home loss to the Charlotte Checkers on Oct. 12, Larsson rebounded emphatically in his second start, recording a 41-save shutout during a 3-0 home win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Oct. 19.

He repeated that feat in his fourth game by making 36 stops in a 5-0 home win against the Rochester Americans on Nov. 9.

Larsson wound up leading all Wilkes-Barre/Scranton goaltenders in appearances but in all reality, he was platooning with seemingly every netminder in the organization as Blomqvist, Murashov and Tristan Jarry all spent significant periods of time in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Despite appearing in only 26 games, Larsson wound up finishing tied for third in the AHL with five shutouts.

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All of his figures might have been more prolific had he not missed 10 games between mid-January and mid-February due to an undisclosed injury.

Another unspecified ailment brought Larsson’s season to an end by April 4 and he missed the team’s final nine games of the season, including two playoff games.

The future: In his season-ending media availability April 21, president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas suggested there will an open competition for the two goaltending spots on the NHL roster entering 2025-26. And he identified Jarry and Nedeljkovic as well as Blomqvist and Murashov in outlining that potential competition.

Larsson’s name was omitted. And that shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, Jarry and Nedeljkovic are signed to contracts with seven-figure salary cap hit while Blomqvist and Murashov are among the organization’s best prospects.

Larsson is a journeyman trying to reclaim his NHL aspirations.

And he took a positive first step toward that pursuit last season by being Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s steadiest goaltender.

Larsson turns 27 on Aug. 17 so he’s not exactly a youngster by NHL standards. In fact, he seems like a graybeard in comparison to the cherubic Blomqvist and Murashov.

But at the very least, Larsson gives management something to think about.

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