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 58 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 26, a day before the start of the NHL Draft. In the event of a transaction, that schedule will be altered as necessary.

(Note: All contract information courtesy of Puckpedia.)

Jack St. Ivany

Position: Defenseman

Shoots: Right

Age: 25

Height: 6-foot-4

Weight: 205 pounds

2024-25 NHL statistics: 19 games, one point (zero goals, one assist), 16:22 of average ice time per contest

2024-25 AHL regular season statistics: 37 games, 16 points (one goal, 15 assists)

2024-25 AHL postseason statistics: Two games, zero points (zero goals, zero assists)

Contract: In the first year of a three-year contract with a salary cap hit of $775,000. Pending unrestricted free agent in 2027.

(The first two years of this contract are two ways. The third year is one way.)

Acquired: Unrestricted free agent signing, Aug. 20, 2022

This past season: There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical about an older Penguins roster entering 2024-25. But Jack St. Ivany was one of the scant sources of optimism for those wanting to see the Penguins get younger.

Coming off a strong finish to the 2023-24 season, St. Ivany, one of the relatively few home-grown prospects the franchise had cultivated in recent years, looks primed to secure a steady place in the lineup and give the Penguins a badly needed boost of young energy.

Opening the season on the right side of the third pairing next to veteran Ryan Graves, St. Ivany never seemed to capture the same success he enjoyed the previous season when he was recalled to the NHL roster and helped the Penguins conclude the previous season on a surge.

New York goal!

Scored by Vincent Trocheck with 03:01 remaining in the 3rd period.

Assisted by Alexis Lafrenière and Artemi Panarin.

Pittsburgh: 0New York: 6#NYRvsPIT #LetsGoPens #NYR pic.twitter.com/WKAUDN0Wnk

— NHL Goals (@nhl_goal_bot) October 10, 2024

Perhaps the lone highlight for St. Ivany at the NHL level this past season came during a 5-3 home loss to the Minnesota Wild when he fought Wild defenseman Brock Faber for hassling Penguins forward Sidney Crosby.

St. Ivany wound up being a healthy scratch for seven of a possible 27 games before being assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Dec. 3.

Things didn’t get off to a great start in Northeast Pennsylvania as St. Ivany was injured in his second game with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Dec.7.

Sidelined until Jan. 24, St. Ivany wound up finding some traction over the remainder of the regular season while playing extensively, but not exclusively, on a pairing with former first-round draft pick Owen Pickering.

Through the screen and into the net pic.twitter.com/oiJoNonnuA

— Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) February 8, 2025

Pickering missed two games on March 7 and 8 after a brief recall to the NHL roster (leading to one healthy scratch) then missed the final two games of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s regular season on March 18 and 17 due to an undisclosed injury.

Skating with Pickering in both of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s postseason games, St. Ivany did not record a point.

The future: If St. Ivany was a left-handed shot, he might almost be guaranteed to make the NHL roster out of training camp in September. The left side of the Penguins’ defense is in rough shape.

But he’s right-handed and at the moment, the NHL club has plenty of veteran right-handers, albeit ones with plenty of question marks.

But that can easily be changed, Erik Karlsson could be traded or Connor Timmins, a pending restricted free agent, might not be re-signed.

Ultimately, St. Ivany, who turns 26 on July 22, still appears to have a future with the club after he seemed to find a course correction on his 2024-25 season with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. And perhaps the chemistry he established with Pickering in the American Hockey League could graduate to the NHL level.

While he is hardly a dynamic puck-mover, St. Ivany has adequate puck skills to operate on the third pairing. And as one of the biggest players in the organization, he employs a physical style that few others in the franchise offer.

But nothing is guaranteed, especially after he took a step back this past season.

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